I just SO enjoyed Howard (Master’s Degree in Conventional Wisdom) Fineman’s take on Hayden on Olbermann’s show. Why, he’s a reg’lar joe! Blue collar guy! From Pittsburgh! Loves the Steelers!

That sort of excrement is bad enough from Tweety. It’s positively vomitous from someone of Fineman’s alleged abilities.

Look this has already been a long war. Ever since the Balfour declaration. Now you can see the seed s of the next war at the end of each of the last one. End of WW1 and the verseilles treaty leads to WW2. End of WW2 and the colonialist empire builders lead to the next series of wars. The winds of change that swept over Africa are only now reaching the Middle East and the US empire has just had its Suez crisis. So this war to decolonize Euro-empires will go on until the Middle East is decolonized.
There must be a global summit with the aim of ending Apartheid in the Middle east and all economic colonialism.
Chalmers Johnson, Robert Fisk, Juan Cole, Noam Chompsky and others could arrange a virtual summit where a consensus on demilitarizing the region and compensating peoples could be hammered out. We have the net now but are running out of excuses for not ending this war.
Not ending this war and setting up the networks to make new wars that much harder to start.
The internets record for intelligence is not good but compared to the CIAs its brilliant.
The claven has to go full steam ahead toward it’s Gotterdamerung – we have to go forward on the net with our peace train. Even if we lose our chief engineer Patrick F we have to carry on.

Hah –Where the hell could they send him to punish him after Baghdad?

Stop the General Hayden nomination dead in it’s tracks blogswarm!

this is something that i have commented on at FDL more than once. Scooter Libby’s advocates have already hit us over the head with “anti-semitism” as the basis for his “persecution”.
it is difficult to criticize our Israeli policy without worrying about being hit with that charge. it is difficult for Jews themselves to criticize the Israeli government without being attacked by Zionists. such people are usually accused of “self-hatred”. Noam Chomsky (a Jew) is vilified for his accurate, well-footnoted, thorough and devastating critique of nation states. These include the US and Israel.
Israel’s influence is not limited to the MSM. It exists in Congress, in the White House, in the State Department, in the Defense Department and, no doubt, in the intelligence agencies, including the CIA.

i think you’re oversimplifying most of your issues and therefore can’t agree. except for the last one (american elites like the volunteer army, the problems of returning to the draft, etc.). that one is spot on.
we wouldn’t be in iraq, or would have major demonstrations against the administration by now if we had had a draft-supplied military.