Norman Solomon (CommonDreams): Triangulation for War

[Jack Rabbit]

From CpmmonDreams.org
Dated Monday August 29

Triangulation for War
By Norman Solomon

Over the weekend, a spectrum of liberal responses to Cindy Sheehan came into sharper focus . . . .

Frank Rich spun out his particular style of triangulation in the New York Times. While deriding President Bush's stay-the-course stance, Rich also felt a need to disparage the most visible advocate for quick withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

Putting down Sheehan -- and, by implication, the one-third of the U.S. public that wants all American troops to exit Iraq without delay -- Rich's column on Sunday mocked "her bumper-sticker politics" and "the slick left-wing political operatives who have turned her into a circus."

Rich criticized "the utter bankruptcy of the Democrats who had rubber-stamped this misadventure in the first place." Yet, in effect, he was willing to help rubber-stamp continuation of the "misadventure" in the present tense.

The president, Rich lamented, "pretends that the only alternative to his reckless conduct of the war is Ms. Sheehan's equally apocalyptic retreat."

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[KoKo]

1. I read it...when it was first out...

I'm really getting sick of democratic party. Notice I used "small caps."

Spineless toads as a party...little people..with only a FEW LIONS amongst them while the others in the "party" lie in the grass waiting for the LIONS to KILL and then feast on the carcass arguing over the proper name of the "beast" in the kill.

The Black Caucus in the House. Bernie Sanders and Jim Jeffords (yeah, he's not perfect but he sacrificed a lot for Daschle to waste) and Feingold (maybe) ...and maybe Ted Kennedy....(if he had any following after most of his political family is dead) and maybe one or two others I've forgotten.

Give it to the HOUSE Black Caucus and the few who sign on to them...Otherwise...our party is so sick and diseased...who cares anymore.

(Not in a good mood, right now, about us dems..so am cranky.) It was Biden's "performance" on Sunday Pundits that threw me over the edge. :-(

[stillcool]

2. Nice article....

comparing the press then and now. I particularly liked the last line!