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Now if he were just talking about the GOP war on America's middle class and workers and the jobless and the seniors and the children's education here in America, too.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Judgement at Concordia
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Last night I attended a National Book Award event at a local college, featuring John Dower, a Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author who has written Cultures of War, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq. He discussed the parallels in "shock and awe" tactics and the strategic imbecility of having no backup plan...after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, after America invaded Iraq.
Dower commented that one of the greatest tragedies of the failure to hold hearings or any kind of "conversation" much less trials about Iraq is that the complete record is likely lost to history. Unlike the record we have from Nuremberg and Tokyo.
Instead we have Rumsfeldian revisionism that will only get worse, I'm thinking. No wonder Dubya mocked the historians. Although, even with the limited record of leakers and piecing together what was on the record yet willfully ignored by the groupthink of the men who made these decisions with Mad Mary hovering over them [I will never get that iconic picture scrubbed from my brain!], judgements are being made. And Dubya's not dead yet.
Invading Iraq -- one of the most colossal failures in strategic thinking in global and military history.
The pullers of the levers of power may want to deny it, to cover it up, to leave it in the dustbin, to not contemplate their own culpability. The media may go along because their own colossal failure to do their jobs, instead, to enable, to steno the run-up to war would be revealed, as well. The incestuous little village may want to keep its tidy little salons free of such petty annoyances as accountability. Starting with looking at their own bare faces in the mirror. And thus, the lesson of history could be lost to future generations
Heckuva job, Bushie.
Unless.
Unless there are men and women of honor and courage and a sense of history as well as right and wrong who will one by one come forward and place their testimony, their documents, on the record.
Failing that, this truly will be a failure of "intelligence."
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crossposted at firedoglake/MyFDL
Last night I attended a National Book Award event at a local college, featuring John Dower, a Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author who has written Cultures of War, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq. He discussed the parallels in "shock and awe" tactics and the strategic imbecility of having no backup plan...after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, after America invaded Iraq.
Dower commented that one of the greatest tragedies of the failure to hold hearings or any kind of "conversation" much less trials about Iraq is that the complete record is likely lost to history. Unlike the record we have from Nuremberg and Tokyo.
Instead we have Rumsfeldian revisionism that will only get worse, I'm thinking. No wonder Dubya mocked the historians. Although, even with the limited record of leakers and piecing together what was on the record yet willfully ignored by the groupthink of the men who made these decisions with Mad Mary hovering over them [I will never get that iconic picture scrubbed from my brain!], judgements are being made. And Dubya's not dead yet.
Invading Iraq -- one of the most colossal failures in strategic thinking in global and military history.
The pullers of the levers of power may want to deny it, to cover it up, to leave it in the dustbin, to not contemplate their own culpability. The media may go along because their own colossal failure to do their jobs, instead, to enable, to steno the run-up to war would be revealed, as well. The incestuous little village may want to keep its tidy little salons free of such petty annoyances as accountability. Starting with looking at their own bare faces in the mirror. And thus, the lesson of history could be lost to future generations
Heckuva job, Bushie.
Unless.
Unless there are men and women of honor and courage and a sense of history as well as right and wrong who will one by one come forward and place their testimony, their documents, on the record.
Failing that, this truly will be a failure of "intelligence."
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crossposted at firedoglake/MyFDL
Saturday, March 19, 2011
R.I.P. Warren Christopher
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Homegrown North Dakota, was Warren Christopher. A citizen who moved on while doing us proud.
Rest in Peace, Warren Christopher.
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Homegrown North Dakota, was Warren Christopher. A citizen who moved on while doing us proud.
Rest in Peace, Warren Christopher.
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
Hey, John Boehner....
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Remember those schoolkids you get too teared-up to visit?
They're living in poverty these days, they tell us on 60 Minutes. They're living in cars and cheap hotels and the spare rooms of their neighbors and in shelters. They're dropping out of school to try to help their unemployed parents pay the bills. They're seeing their Playstations and Barbie dolls get sold for storage fees. Too soon, one in four will be a child in poverty....
They're blaming themselves, these kids, for the fate of their family.
I blame you.
Sometimes a kid's American dream is as simple as a home.
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crossposted at firedoglake/MyFDL
Remember those schoolkids you get too teared-up to visit?
They're living in poverty these days, they tell us on 60 Minutes. They're living in cars and cheap hotels and the spare rooms of their neighbors and in shelters. They're dropping out of school to try to help their unemployed parents pay the bills. They're seeing their Playstations and Barbie dolls get sold for storage fees. Too soon, one in four will be a child in poverty....
They're blaming themselves, these kids, for the fate of their family.
I blame you.
Sometimes a kid's American dream is as simple as a home.
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crossposted at firedoglake/MyFDL
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Conrad Retiring
MSNBC is reporting that Kent Conrad will announce he's not running for re-election in 2012.
Hmmmm. Anybody heard Bud Selig's plans lately?
Hmmmm. Anybody heard Bud Selig's plans lately?
Monday, January 17, 2011
Quote for every day
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"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. " ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
h/t to Mary on FB for the reminder.
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. " ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
h/t to Mary on FB for the reminder.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Gettin' It Done
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While Bloomie and Christie were whining from their elitist perches during the blizzard, Cory Booker was getting it done for his constituents in Newark.
I'm saving this commentary on Hypocrisy he's written for HuffPost, because—given the speed with which the bullpucky spin's already rising in DeeCee—I've a hunch I'm going to need to go back to it for clear-eyed vision from time to time this year.
Booker's writing about health and hypocrisy, but his message transcends carbs of sugar. Take heed.
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While Bloomie and Christie were whining from their elitist perches during the blizzard, Cory Booker was getting it done for his constituents in Newark.
I'm saving this commentary on Hypocrisy he's written for HuffPost, because—given the speed with which the bullpucky spin's already rising in DeeCee—I've a hunch I'm going to need to go back to it for clear-eyed vision from time to time this year.
Booker's writing about health and hypocrisy, but his message transcends carbs of sugar. Take heed.
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