Admin has Done More Damage To America Than Any Mole Or Spy Ever Has In 200 Years (Kristof)

[kpete]

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Nicholas D. Kristof: Iran’s Operative in the White House
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O.K., O.K. Of course, all this is absurd. Mr. Cheney isn’t an Iranian mole. Nor is he a North Korean mole, though his we-don’t-negotiate-with-evil policy toward North Korea has resulted in that country’s quadrupling its nuclear arsenal. It’s also unlikely that he is an Al Qaeda mole, even though Al Qaeda now has an important new base of support in Iraq.

Like Kennedy and Johnson wading into Vietnam, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney harmed American interests not out of malice but out of ineptitude. I concede that they honestly wanted the best for America, but we still ended up getting the worst.

So what are the lessons from this episode?
Our national interests are as vulnerable to incompetence as to malicious damage. So we must identify and abandon the policies that backfired so catastrophically. The common threads of those damaging policies are clear: a refusal to negotiate with “evil”; an aggressive willingness to use military force to solve problems; contempt for our allies; and the bending of legal and moral principles to allow indefinite detention and even torture, particularly for anyone with olive skin and a Muslim name.

Whenever we’ve suspected a mole in our midst, we’ve gone to extreme lengths to find the traitor. This time, betrayed not by a mole but by failed policies, let’s be just as resolute. It’s time to uproot policies that in the last half-dozen years have damaged American interests incomparably more than any mole or foreign spy ever has in the last 200 years.

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[HellRaiser]

1. kick

[cassiepriam]

2. Cheney never wanted what was best for the US, but for himself and Halliburtion.

[bdamomma]

5. they never wanted the best, they wanted revenge all these years

for not getting George No. 1 in for another term, their plan would have been kick started a long time ago, if George No.1 got in again.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. EXACTLY. Clinton pre-empted their PNAC agenda. That's why they had their witch hunt

on him. This is pure revenge.

[bdamomma]

7. can you see cheney and rummy rubbing their hands together

saying we will get them, cheney and that sickening smirk.

[whistle]

3. Kick

[riderinthestorm]

4. I DON'T concede that they wanted what was best for America

Nope, I don't concede that at all.

I do however agree that they aren't acting out of malice, they are acting out of greed - and they are doing THAT job extremely competently.

[indepat]

8. What was Kristof thinking by saying "...they honestly wanted the best for America" ? They wanted

a neocon and PNAC agenda implemented no matter the cost in treasure, lives, limbs, and reputation for it was damn the torpedoes, damn what's best for America, on with our pre-determined neocon PNAC agenda, a strong argument could surely be made.