Seymour Hersch
My wife and I typically watch the NBC news followed by the 7:00PM rerun of the Daily Show from the previous night.
Although Jon Stewart mainly skewers Bush and the Bushies, he also does spread the insults around a bit. Tonight he had Seymour Hersch on, and they were talking about Seymour's recent article in the New Yorker, "The Coming Wars."
It seems the Bushies have plans to go after Iran. Now, at first, Seymour sounds like we are going to invade Iran, but further questioning suggests that we may be just trying to destabilize the current Islamic regime. Both Jon Stewart and Seymour Hersch are very upset that we might try to do this.
Now since this regime has seemingly backed away from reform, and is known to be working on enriching uranium for a nuclear bomb, I'm desperately trying to understand how this is a bad thing.
In addition, an Iranian leader is quoted as saying something along the lines of America will experience a "rain of fire and death" if we try anything.
Well, dem are fightin' words.
Now in Iraq, whether or not we had reasonable cause to go in is debatable. In my opinion. I believe once Sadaam was captured and once the WMD search was over (which was months before the search was declared over), we should have gotten out.
I do not believe that we have a moral obligation to rebuild any country we destroy prior to a negotiated Marshall type plan with the destroyed party. And we definitely should not be using soldiers to rebuild, the Marine Corps are not the Peace Corps.
Definition:
Marine Corps - Highly skilled American fighting force.
Definition:
Peace Corps - Idealistic people dressed in hemp trying to help people learn to farm b/c those people haven't been farming correctly in their own country for over 200 years. (OK, that was harsh, the peace corps does do some good stuff especially good weed.)
Let us recall, the 1970's, when I was a wee lad, we had a certain peace loving President named Jimmy Carter. He chose to do little or nothing to rescue American Hostages in Iran, unless you count rubber bullets and broken copters as something.
As a current co-worker of mine has said many times in the past few months, if Jimmy Carter had been a decent Commander in Chief, would we be having the problems we have now?
Although Jon Stewart mainly skewers Bush and the Bushies, he also does spread the insults around a bit. Tonight he had Seymour Hersch on, and they were talking about Seymour's recent article in the New Yorker, "The Coming Wars."
It seems the Bushies have plans to go after Iran. Now, at first, Seymour sounds like we are going to invade Iran, but further questioning suggests that we may be just trying to destabilize the current Islamic regime. Both Jon Stewart and Seymour Hersch are very upset that we might try to do this.
Now since this regime has seemingly backed away from reform, and is known to be working on enriching uranium for a nuclear bomb, I'm desperately trying to understand how this is a bad thing.
In addition, an Iranian leader is quoted as saying something along the lines of America will experience a "rain of fire and death" if we try anything.
Well, dem are fightin' words.
Now in Iraq, whether or not we had reasonable cause to go in is debatable. In my opinion. I believe once Sadaam was captured and once the WMD search was over (which was months before the search was declared over), we should have gotten out.
I do not believe that we have a moral obligation to rebuild any country we destroy prior to a negotiated Marshall type plan with the destroyed party. And we definitely should not be using soldiers to rebuild, the Marine Corps are not the Peace Corps.
Definition:
Marine Corps - Highly skilled American fighting force.
Definition:
Peace Corps - Idealistic people dressed in hemp trying to help people learn to farm b/c those people haven't been farming correctly in their own country for over 200 years. (OK, that was harsh, the peace corps does do some good stuff especially good weed.)
Let us recall, the 1970's, when I was a wee lad, we had a certain peace loving President named Jimmy Carter. He chose to do little or nothing to rescue American Hostages in Iran, unless you count rubber bullets and broken copters as something.
As a current co-worker of mine has said many times in the past few months, if Jimmy Carter had been a decent Commander in Chief, would we be having the problems we have now?
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