Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
FROM ALTERCATION: HO HUM, More dishonesty, more wasted money, more scandals buried deep inside the Washington Post and largely uncovered elsewhere. This one, you guessed it: “Missile Defense Testing May Be Inadequate.” Hey Mr. Headline Writer, that is one hell of a “may” you got there. Anyway, I miss the days when this was one of our […]
MoreIf Bush ruled the world William Pfaff MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2006 PARIS Intellectual poverty is the most striking quality of the Bush administration’s new National Security Strategy statement, issued on Thursday. Its overall incoherence, its clichés and stereotyped phraseology give the impression that Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser, and his fellow authors assembled it […]
MoreBURN, BABY, BEIRNE: If it’s cold in New York, is global warming all wet? In fact, many readers wrote to remind us that warming theory predicts increased extreme weather of all varieties. Almost no pundit is really prepared to discuss the science of climate change. But even our current slackers and harlequins know that a […]
MoreSpeaking of which, I admit it, I am not a good person. I am genuinely enjoying the fact that our own Little Roy Cohn, not altogether unlike Emma Bovary, is finally, painfully waking up to the fact that the political figure to which he has betrothed himself so profoundly and abjectly during the past three years […]
MoreWhat the hell is a “weapons of mass destruction-related program activity?” And what is its relationship to statements like these:”Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” –Dick Cheney Speech to VFW National Convention, Aug. 26, 2002 “Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for […]
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