Unclaimed Territory – by Glenn Greenwald: Taking the neocon pulse: “Mark Steyn’s columns are always useful for checking the collective neocon pulse. This week, Steyn can’t figure out why it is that decorated Marine Jack Murtha’s conversion from pro-war-hawk to anti-war crusader got so much attention, while everyone ignored the earth-shattering Op-Ed written by Joe Lieberman, in which Lieberman announced that he used to be for the war . . . . and still is:
Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, came out with a big statement on Iraq last week. Did you hear about it? Probably not. Everyone was still raving about his Democrat colleague, Rep. Jack Murtha, whose carefully nuanced position on Iraq is: We’re all doomed unless we pull out by next Tuesday! (I quote from memory.) . . .
And, while the media were eager to promote Murtha as the most incisively insightful military expert on the planet, this guy Lieberman’s evidently some nobody no one need pay any attention to.
Here’s why. His big piece on Iraq was headlined ‘Our Troops Must Stay.’
On the list of unattractive neocon attributes, the need to perpetually cry about the chronic unfairness to which they are subjected (‘the media is ignoring us!!’) is near the top (right behind their desire to have the U.S. wage eternal war in futile and self-destructive pursuit of conquest of the entire Middle East).
Whatever else one thinks of Jack Murtha’s announcement, it was news. Murtha voted for the war, supported it, has long been one of the closest Congressional allies of the Pentagon, and has been a leading defense hawk on Capitol Hill for many years. The fact that someone like him changed his mind and confessed what he believes is his error about the war is not only news in and of itself, but also”
::Tullycast:: 