..Mum’s the word among the corporate media, the Democrats’ welcome challenge to the Bush administration in staving off a Bolton confirmation may prove to be good for little more than a couple of weeks’ of noisy entertainment that will keep the focus on John Bolton, the outrageous bully, instead of the outrageous reforms he and Paul Wolfowitz were selected to pursue in this, the newly-opening second front of the War for US Global Domination. And though Bush may yet be denied Bolton as his Ambassador to the UN, he will not abandon this second front. As the war’s most prominent and eager prisoner, the president can not turn from his insolvent and understaffed empire’s only open window.
Boo –I found that snip in this piece a few moments ago, and think its worth digging through — you’ve been very good at decoding this sort of stuff.. or at least integrating its material with some of your own in order to provide a more detailed explanation of the confusing mosaic that all this is.
Generally, the piece is a good argument for, if reading between the lines, non-interventionist types to drop the quibbling over other differences (and respect the others disagreement…) and put a stop to the interventionist types’ policies.
Also, note that the fingerprints of Clinton’s vision are on this mess, too.. perhaps not to the degree / way of Bush I and Reagan’s.. but the contribution is still substantial in terms of enabling the apparatus. Really, once the apparatus is created, it is ready to be hijacked, no matter what great intentions the road was paved to accomplish. (really, 280 million people cannot be trusted to make such complicated collective decisions on the use of such power — its so susceptible to manipulation…) Of course, that’s precisely the abuse libertarian types warn about when it comes to creating these honey-named behemoths.
Anyway, I’m interested in your thoughts on the piece, and of course the rest of the community… Let ’em rip.
