Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Hooey Flows Downhill
The latest line of hooey being disseminated to defend the increasingly indefensible foreign policy fiasco that is the occupation of Iraq crops up in a letter to today's New York Times:
No, the problem is anyone who criticizes the Bush administration or their policies. That's what's REALLY motivating the terrorists. If we'd all just get on board the terrorists would "have no reason to attack".
Because they don't think they're fighting a titanic religious struggle that goes back eons -- they're really just reacting to Paul Krugman.
Why do we just know there was some Russian hard-liner spewing this same nonsense while Russians soldiers were up to their armpits in blood in Afghanistan? Or in England, for that matter, while they were mired in this same Iraq.
The blame for this particularly stinky poop-throwing rests squarely on the head of the President himself, for it was he who first slung it, in his State of the Union address.
Oh and by the way, as Mr. Schmidt points out, everyone, including international aid workers, should just hunker down and go along with Mr. Bush's brilliant operation. Or else, presumably, they're "with the terrorists".
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/29/opinion/L29IRAQ.htmlSee, the problem isn't thousands of years of religious conflict, hundreds of years of colonial occupation, or even decades of brutal dictatorship and reactionary anti-western zealotry -- and it's certainly not the horrendously ignorant, ideologically-driven foreign policy of the neocons who hijacked George Bush's presidency.
To the Editor:
Re "Suicide Bombers in Baghdad Kill at Least 34" (front page, Oct. 28): The terrorists are not automatons; they watch the news and gauge reactions to decide their future course. They are going to strike at the people they think are weak and most likely to pull out. I have the greatest respect for the heroic dedication of the aid workers, but if they are going to be in Iraq, then they have to decide right now to stay, no matter what. If everybody hunkered down and refused to give into terrorism, the terrorists would have no reason to attack.
ANDY SCHMIDT
Charlottesville, Va., Oct. 28, 2003
No, the problem is anyone who criticizes the Bush administration or their policies. That's what's REALLY motivating the terrorists. If we'd all just get on board the terrorists would "have no reason to attack".
Because they don't think they're fighting a titanic religious struggle that goes back eons -- they're really just reacting to Paul Krugman.
Why do we just know there was some Russian hard-liner spewing this same nonsense while Russians soldiers were up to their armpits in blood in Afghanistan? Or in England, for that matter, while they were mired in this same Iraq.
The blame for this particularly stinky poop-throwing rests squarely on the head of the President himself, for it was he who first slung it, in his State of the Union address.
Oh and by the way, as Mr. Schmidt points out, everyone, including international aid workers, should just hunker down and go along with Mr. Bush's brilliant operation. Or else, presumably, they're "with the terrorists".
