"Why haven’t what we laughably call “leaders” of the USA, Iran and Saudi Arabia called back their delinquent spawn, cut off their allowances and grounded them for six months?* arkin:Maybe because mayhem and murder in the Middle East are very, very profitable to the sponsors of these characters with bombs and rockets. America, Iran and Saudi Arabia share one thing in common: they are run by oil regimes. The higher the price of crude, the higher the profits and the happier the presidents and princelings of these petroleum republics."
"Israel might have conducted two weeks of precision air attacks against "legitimate" military targets, but to argue -- and not see -- that in this boilerplate targeting approach, it is civilian infrastructure, and by extension, the people of Lebanon, who are the targets, is either dishonest or blind."* clemons:
"Some golden oldies on Bolton include his close, and ultimately illegal relationship providing uncompensated legal counsel to Senator Jesse Helms, his presidency of the National Policy Forum -- a 501(c)3 non-profit institution founded by Haley Barbour that lost its non-profit status because of illegal partisanship in its programming objectives, his non-transparent relationship with Taiwan funding sources while providing testimony to Congress on Taiwan issues, his role in helping to promulgate the Niger Uranium story inside the State Department after it had been internally set aside by INR analysts, his efforts to beat and massage intelligence to fit preconceived political objectives in the build-up of the war against Iraq, his insubordination under Colin Powell and Richard Armitage and sabotage of America's North Korea diplomacy in 2001, and the list goes on and on.
But on Bolton's UN performance -- ONE SIMPLE QUESTION NEEDS TO BE ASKED.
Why are we to believe that John Bolton, who has now had a lot of time on the clock, is any good at all at getting what America wants done at the UN? He has had no successes."
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Actually, this is something like a scenario that I think Bolton and the neocons want to see, as depressing and sadistic as that sounds. They expect glorious democracy to rise as if by magic in Lebanon (though wasn't it only recently that Dubya and the Bush cabal was crowing about the "cedar revolution" or something?). I wonder how much longer that will hold up while the Israelis continue to try to turn Lebanon into a crater.
hmmm - i think that you are wrong. they dont believe in glorious democracy. they do love themselves some war(s), tho.
Goes a bit beyond Palast's theory of profit...ie...WWIII is the answer to peak oil, economic collapse and environmental destruction.
Does Ahmad get $$$ from Pfizer? Just saying it's pretty depressing stuff. OTOH (if remotely credible), it answers a question...ie...why Congress would put up with scumbags like Bush and Cheney. A=This "project" can only be carried out by scumbags like Bush and Cheney.
Is that the preferred link format? LOL. My bad.
thats exactly how we love our links :-)
thnx
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