Sunday, January 23, 2005
Dying for Sycophants-Counterpunch
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.
Being an administration that protects delusion with sycophancy, Bush operatives have cleared knowledgeable people out of the State Department and CIA, just as they cleared out the generals who predicted correctly that Iraq was not going to go according to the cakewalk plan.
Facts, analysis, morality and common sense are totally against the neoconservative jihad against Islam. The neocons respond by ignoring facts, silencing analysts, and closing down debate. Delusion is astride power, and America will dearly pay.
Condi is "with us." She toes the line and meets the necessary qualification to be Bush's Secretary of State. Listening to her babble on about the great things the US is doing to bring democracy to Iraq, I marveled at the insouciance with which Condi covered up Bush's strategic blunder and illegal war with the Jacobin claim that liberation is the aim of America's naked aggression.
Being an administration that protects delusion with sycophancy, Bush operatives have cleared knowledgeable people out of the State Department and CIA, just as they cleared out the generals who predicted correctly that Iraq was not going to go according to the cakewalk plan.
Facts, analysis, morality and common sense are totally against the neoconservative jihad against Islam. The neocons respond by ignoring facts, silencing analysts, and closing down debate. Delusion is astride power, and America will dearly pay.
Condi is "with us." She toes the line and meets the necessary qualification to be Bush's Secretary of State. Listening to her babble on about the great things the US is doing to bring democracy to Iraq, I marveled at the insouciance with which Condi covered up Bush's strategic blunder and illegal war with the Jacobin claim that liberation is the aim of America's naked aggression.
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