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Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Cohen on crack
Richard Cohen writes a review of Syriana this week that indicates the movie fails as a political message because it suggests that greed and oil might be motivators of politics. He cites "The Assassin's Gate" to explain the real reasons the neocon's took us to war:
To read George Packer's "The Assassin's Gate" is to be reminded that the Iraq war is not the product of oil avarice, or CIA evil, but of a surfeit of altruism, a naive compulsion to do good. That entire collection of neo- and retro-conservatives -- George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and particularly Paul Wolfowitz -- made war not for oil or for empire but to end the horror of Saddam Hussein and, yes, reorder the Middle East. Then he says that liberals are naive in explaining the causes for war and proof that this war was not for oil or enrichment of Halliburton is the fact that Bush got elected again: The left's criticism of the war from the very start was too often a porridge of inanities about oil or empire or Halliburton -- or isolationism by another name. It was childish and ultimately ineffective. The war came and Bush was reelected. How's that for a clean whiff? Did he forget the endless stories of corruption by the evil wing of Halliburton, Kellogg Brown and Root? I guess all those no-bid contracts, fraud and waste of taxpayer money was just a coincidence? And the evil dictator we chose to conquer just happened to be sitting on oil reserves? And the proof liberals are wrong about the motives of the morons behind this war is the fact that yet another election based on abortion and gays went to Republicans? I guess all that torture we've been hearing about is just another sign of the administration's naive good intentions. Hmmm. Maybe he should reconsider the hypothesis that they really are just mad with power. Maybe Kos is right (check out Cohen's tag to see what other's at Kos think of him). Cohen is nuts. |
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Cohen is either the biggest political Pollyanna imaginable -- dim and gullible beyond anyone's reckoning --, or he's a Fox News Liberal, a collaborator who'd do Marshal Petain proud. I still can't decide which it is; he puts sentences together like a reasonably sentient being, but he uses them to convey such unbelievable inanities.
He fell hard for Powell's dog-and-pony "Iraq has WMD" show at the UN, when anyone with an IQ above room temperature instantly spotted it as a joke. He continues to cavil anytime the left mobilizes to criticize the Bush administration, whining "ohhhhh, don't make them maaaaad" with a dainty flick of the wrist.
Actually, in that light, I think when he writes stupidities like this, it's more a matter of hurt pride: he refuses to admit he was snowed and resents anyone who wasn't. What a cretin.
9:01 PM, December 15, 2005
I know. But at the same time, he tricks me every once in a while into thinking that he really is liberal. It can be really confusing. I can't fully figure out what his deal is either.
9:58 AM, December 16, 2005
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