Reply #11: "neoconservative Emergency Committee for Israel" [View All]

[bemildred]

That's very funny, Panetta being outside the fold now. You have to wonder who these clowns like Kristol think they are? This whole thing reminds me of the European leftist witch hunts; you say the wrong thing and all of a sudden you are a "useful idiot", "capitalist tool", or "running dog of capitalism" or something, instead of a "loyal vanguard of the people's revolution".

Panettta is from where I live. I don't care for him much, he has always been the obedient bureaucrat, and an effective one too, loyal to the bone, conservative with liberal sentiments on social issues, not particularly an attention whore, and totally on board with the rightness of US global hegemony and the superiority of US culture, he ran the CIA, etc. very old school. He is not someone I would want to annoy, He is not saying these things on his own, and there is nobody on the planet who is likely to be better informed than he is about the political facts of life and the geopolitical facts on the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Panetta