Juan Williams: Kristol Is Pushing For ‘The Next World War’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/14/iran-williams-kristol/

Juan Williams: Kristol Is Pushing For ‘The Next World War’

On Fox News Sunday, right-wing pundit Bill Kristol continued to beat the war drums for a strike against Iran. “I hope the administration is willing to do what it takes to back Iran off,” he said, adding that “we may need to do stuff across the border.”

NPR’s Mara Liasson claimed that the Bush administration could politically “withstand” an attack against Iran, and that a bombing raid inside Iran would not count as “an all-out war.”

NPR’s Juan Williams noted that Liasson and Kristol were in effect condoning “the next world war”:

WILLIAMS: I think what Bill Kristol is saying is he wants some action against Iran in a way that Israel apparently took action against Syria. And I think what you’re looking at then is the next world war. {…}

And if we now say the U.S. is going to take action against Iran, and it’s not as a result of some specific provocative action, then you’re talking about spreading war.

Kristol responded by citing the recent Israeli airstrike on Syria as evidence for his claim that a strike on Iran would not have deeper consequences. “Has the Israeli action against Syria spread war? Has that destabilized the region?” Kristol asked.

Watch it/read transcript at link~

Last year, Williams told Kristol: “You just want war, war, war, and you want us in more war. ”

Neither Liasson nor Kristol should fool themselves about the consequences of striking Iran. Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski recently said “that Iran would likely react to an American attack ‘by intensifying the conflict in Iraq and also in Afghanistan, their neighbors, and that could draw in Pakistan. We will be stuck in a regional war for twenty years.’”

[rodeodance]

1. NPR’s Mara Liasson is so disappointing-----she is like Colmes on the hannity mouth show.

[Peregrine Took]

3. To me, she typifies the "new" NPR. I haven't listened in years and I used to

be a 24/7 listener.

[peacetalksforall]

11. She is vile. NPR news and interviews are vile. I cannot bear to

listen to NPR news. Yesterday, I couldn't get to the radio to switch stations.

The questioner asked the guest a question that referenced Nobel prizes for U.S. Presidents and only mentioned Wilson and T. Roosevelt. THEY DID NOT INCLUDE President Carter. Listen and you will hear nuances of slant every time you listen. You may be appalled.

[MikeNearMcChord]

2. A question here, Where any German Journalists tried at

Nuremberg, for advocating war? I seem to recall that some Rwandan talk show hosts were tried at The Hague. What we have here is a war criminal against humanity writ large!

[TahitiNut]

4. Julius Streicher, Editor of 'Der Sturmer'

:shrug:

[madrchsod]

6. rwandan war was started by radio broadcasts...

http://www.whitepinepictures.com/dallairesite/
Shake Hands With The Devil

this movie explains what happened by the man who was left in charge of the situation and who was responsible for the bloodbath

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. Kristol and McCain -- two irrelevant whack jobs whose time has passed. n/t

[Coexist]

7. Kristol is a psycho.

really.

he has issues - he needs to spend some serious time in Iraq, or any other war zone, for a LONG time with no security forces. He is a maniac.

[EFerrari]

8. And so is anyone who believes him. He's been wrong about everything.

EVERYTHING.

[SergeyDovlatov]

9. and he supports Hillary

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/07/306537.aspx

OH-EIGHT (D): KRISTOL A HILLARY FAN?

Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol. “‘Obama,’ he said, ‘is becoming the antiwar candidate, and Hillary Clinton is becoming the responsible Democrat who could become commander in chief in a post-9/11 world.’”

[opihimoimoi]

10. He has been wrong for the longest time...WHY are we listening to him???

He and his PNACer/NEOCON Friends have FUCKED AMERICA with their whacko Ideas...its not funny...not after losing so many of our troops and money....

Our once bright Future is now CRAP because of him and the GOP he rode in on....

FUCK HIM and the GOP

[Terri S]

12. I always hear David Byrne singing when I hear these people...

Psycho Killer
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