Sunday, October 25, 2009

Let them talk

And then do just the opposite:
A group of conservative foreign policy advocates—including a bevy of neoconservatives—this week sent President Barack Obama a letter urging him to stand firm in Afghanistan and vowing their support for him (on Afghanistan) if he did so. The letter was organized by the Foreign Policy Initiative, a think tank put together by leading neoconservatives Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan, and signers included the pair and such neocon stalwarts as David Frum, Max Boot, Robert Kagan, John Podhoretz, Clifford May, Danielle Pletka, Randy Scheunemann, Dan Senor, and Gary Schmitt. But two high-profile right-wingers also added their names: Sarah Palin and Karl Rove.

The letter is reminiscent of the neocons' efforts before the Iraq War to whip up support for US military action against Saddam Hussein, an effort promoted by Kristol's think tank of the time—the Project for a New American Century.
We've had eight years of the neocon agenda and look what a mess they've left our country and the world in! So WHY ON EARTH are we giving Bill Kristol and these doofuses air time? Why? They are absolutely the LAST PEOPLE in the world to be taking advice from!

8 comments:

Mike Goldman said...

Afghanistan is a drug war. We need to get our house in order on this NOW.

Start by ending cannabis prohibition everywhere, because Afghanistan grows the best pot, and the best opium, and they'll grow either one. We should encourage them to plant their fields with cannabis and be able to sustain themselves, rather than forcing them to grow unprofitable mass production crops like wheat.

ellroon said...

I thought we'd decided the crop we'd ask them to plant was pomegrantes...

If we ended the cannabis prohibition worldwide, we could solve the global warming problem too....all the haze would deflect the sun's rays....

(/joke!)

Mike Goldman said...

Seriously, yes, it would solve the global warming problem to a significant extent, because it is the fastest land race carbon sink, and largely replaces petroleum as a source of oil, plastic, etc., thus being net carbon negative.

ellroon said...

:D! Your world would truly be a happy place if you were emperor, Mike!

Mike Goldman said...

No interest in imperial authority, but I am a pope. :D

ellroon said...

Ooo! Now I'm one, too! Thanks!

Mike Goldman said...

Habemus papam! :)

ellroon said...

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum:
Habemus Papam!
Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum Dominum,
Dominum ellroon,
Sanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ Cardinalem gravenstone,
Qui sibi nomen imposuit Pope Silly Bugger Sugar Buns Naughty Bits.