First Light

[The2ndWheel]

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/11/25/120.html

Last week, America's troubled sleep was shattered by a trumpet blast of truth sounding deep in Washington's corridors of power, where the rule of the Lie has held sway for so long. This intrusion of reality into the bloodstained fantasyland of the Bush Regime comes late in the day for the moribund Republic -- perhaps too late -- but it has struck a mighty blow against the Lie's adherents, driving them into spasms of hysterical panic, like rats exposed suddenly to the light.

The unlikely instigator of this historic upheaval was U.S. Representative John Murtha, the 73-year-old conservative Democrat and war hawk, one of many "opposition" leaders who once strongly backed President George W. Bush's murderous folly in Iraq. Murtha, a Vietnam vet, has been a stalwart of the military-industrial complex for decades, supporting U.S. wars around the world and showering legislative largess on the weapons industry -- which has obligingly kicked back lobbying contracts to his kin and friends, The Los Angeles Times reports.

[acmavm]

1. I cannot believe this thread drew no comments or acknowledgement.

Especially considering some of the crap threads people jump on.

[The Traveler]

2. That is curious ...

Why not, I wonder.

It is also interesting that all "hawkish" folk are lumped into a single category. The defense community is, of course, far more complex than that. One of the big debates within that community revolves around the concept of "preemptive war", a radical doctrinal change first implemented with our invasion of Iraq.

The Bush Iraq policy is a failure, based on a bad philosophy of defense and international relations that seems to me virtually guaranteed to produce policy failures. At some point, THAT debate, also, needs to be brough to the public table.

[confuddled]

3. I am not at all surprised.

The crap factor is exactly why I quickly migrate to this forum. Too, I am partial (to say the least) to Chris Floyd.