"Conduct abroad a war of choice and expand executive power at home"
i've just finished reading what may be the most cogent analysis of the bush presidency i have yet come across...
the following two snippets give you an idea of the direction jay rosen takes in the article, but i highly encourage you to read the full piece...
i have thought for some time that part of the reason bush and his criminal counterparts continue to remain seriously unchallenged is that the media and the american people simply cannot bring themselves to grasp the astonishing breadth and depth of perfidy that they have perpetrated... it falls so far outside what we consider the "normal paradigm" of governmental behavior, we reject it out of hand...
speaking for myself, i spent years attempting to articulate what i had been feeling in my gut since the shit began hitting the fan in earnest after 9/11... it wasn't until i finally connected the dots for myself back in early 2003 that i was finally able to say out loud that the u.s. had been victim of a stealth coup d'etat, and, even then, i thought i had joined the ranks of the tin-foil hatters... since then, a number of others have wised up, but not nearly enough to do what needs to be done, and that is to get these people out of office before it's too late... Submit To Propeller
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the following two snippets give you an idea of the direction jay rosen takes in the article, but i highly encourage you to read the full piece...
[W]hat if our problems in Iraq are due not to a lack of realism, but to the total breakdown of reality-based policy making, a deliberate withdrawal from an empirical mindset in order to conduct abroad a war of choice and expand executive power at home?
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This is in fact a way to discredit the press that the press has not fully appreciated. Take extreme action and a press that mistrusts "the extremes" will mistrust initial reports of that action...
i have thought for some time that part of the reason bush and his criminal counterparts continue to remain seriously unchallenged is that the media and the american people simply cannot bring themselves to grasp the astonishing breadth and depth of perfidy that they have perpetrated... it falls so far outside what we consider the "normal paradigm" of governmental behavior, we reject it out of hand...
speaking for myself, i spent years attempting to articulate what i had been feeling in my gut since the shit began hitting the fan in earnest after 9/11... it wasn't until i finally connected the dots for myself back in early 2003 that i was finally able to say out loud that the u.s. had been victim of a stealth coup d'etat, and, even then, i thought i had joined the ranks of the tin-foil hatters... since then, a number of others have wised up, but not nearly enough to do what needs to be done, and that is to get these people out of office before it's too late... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
12/21/2006
