Tuesday, January 18, 2005
... he may well turn ... Taking a break from reporting events in Iraq, Juan Cole gives us some analysis. Most recently, about Bush and his "Accountability Moment". Teaser excerpt: If Bush doesn't find a way to resolve the Iraq mess, and if he is so foolhardy as to pursue direct confrontation with Syria and Iran that proves just as disastrous, he may well turn the US public decisively against the Republican Party for decades, as the party of adventure, war and ruin.
posted by Quiddity at 1/18/2005 05:20:00 AM
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It's very unlikely the public will turn against the Fascist Party. To make this happen the Print and Electronic Media would actually have to do the jobs that standarized ethical and moral guidelines demand: protect the public's interest. Since the media as an industry has been completely co-opted by the Corporate Agenda and by the Fascist Party payola, the mattress backed presstitutes will earn their keep and continue to worry their pretty little over-paid heads about the manufactured celebrity crisis of the day.
Lurch
Hey, even fascists sometimes get their comeuppance.
Ah, great photo. One can only dream....
I agree with Cole that the Republicans will eventually go too far, if they haven't already. Whether or not they become a pariah party hinges upon whether this country actually has any remaining democratic institutions in four years.
When the air war against Iran begins, there will be quite a dust-up in congress, seeing as they won't know anything about the attack. You remember that tired old separation of powers thingy, do you not? If congress rises up to bitch-slap the administration we will have a full-scale constitutional crisis on our hands (like we don't already), and I'm not optimistic about the outcome, seeing as our officer corps is made up of lunatics like Boykin.
So ask yourself this question: Did the Communist Party ever fall out of favor in the Soviet Union? Did the National Socialists in Nazi Germany? To which party will the American electorate defect? The Milquetoast Democrats? Maybe. Again, I'm not optimistic.
Juan Cole was for the war.
I find Juan Cole, even after the war, to be hopelessly Imperialistic and pro-American. I use as an example his interest in translating certain books to Arabic. What books does he choose? I spoke to him about this via private e-mail. He wants to waive Jefferson under their nose. Why not print a huge flag on the Jefferson tomes and make it required reading?
The Oracle of the American Republic, without any doubt whatsoever, was a Frenchman, Charles de Secondat, the Baron of Montesquieu. I suggested to Prof Cole that we choose something where 1. There are lots of bilingual Arabic-French speakers (compared to US-French) and 2. Didn't strike the Iraqis as more triumphalism.
I either can't give good advice, or he can't take it.
How do you justify him being pro-war though?
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