Brian full O crap Jenkins was shilling today on Wash. Journal

[donsu]

he has a new book to sell - Unconquerable Nation

he is from the Pentagon's Rand group

he thinks america is unconquerable. (you know how that goes from watching reality TV shows. soon as a contestent says they are so powerful they won't get dumped, they get dumped.)

america has already been conquered by the neo con criminal bushmilhousegang. we are no longer the democracy we were, etc., etc. we are now fighting to get it and our rights back.

watching him deflect caller's questions was like watching a game of pong. one caller asked him about 9/11 being an inside job (as we know it was) and 'pong' he said of course not and went on about terrorist actions in the US. he ponged any caller's questions he didn't like, like the caller asking about the anthrax murders. he said nobody knows who did it. (I'm saying, can we get some Cold Case detectives to investigate?)

he actually used the "repent" word in regards to the prisoners at Gitmo. we should be trying to 'repent' the lesser criminal ones. the really bad ones should be kept there forever until death. but we should try to get the others to 'repent'. Brian is a madman.

may he trip and fall

[Cassandra]

1. I'm rather a fan of Brian Jenkins...

and have been reading what he has to say for a long time. I think he is suffering something similar to what some blogs are saying about Brad DeLong these days; that he so trusts his good and sane judgment as a mature adult that he doesn't realize he can't assume the same about anyone in the Bush Administration. (DeLong is being criticized for an attitude that the reasonable technocrat can get us out of this mess but he does understand the threat that is Bushco). I also was not completely bothered by Bush sending troops to surround Iraq because it certainly did focus Saddam's attention and have him allow inspectors in. HOWEVER, I minded a lot that it was obvious to me that Bush would then use any excuse to invade (even the mere presence there of our army) and it annoyed me at the time that Jenkins didn't see this as likely (he wrote an op-ed at the time). It was a forgone conclusion for all of us who have been unwilling to take Bush at his word and I think Jenkins has allowed his long association (perhaps not friendship, I don't know) with Repuke power brokers to blind him to how dangerous these nuts are. He thinks he can be the avuncular voice of reason to these people but they're not listening.
What he means by unconquerable is not "We're #1" sort of thinking but that our greatest danger is not from terrorists but from our (the wingnuts') willingness to jettison the Constitution and our essential character as a nation when presented with danger.

[donsu]

2. you are kinder then I am - Jenkins is being stupid

nt

[Cassandra]

3. That thought also crossed my mind but...

since he's not a stupid man, I was looking for another explanation.

[donsu]

4. money placed in his pocket?

nt

[Cassandra]

5. I really think it's something closer to personal vanity.

I think he has enough money.