Oooooo... Jeffrey Feldman REALLY doesn't like Darth

and who can blame him...?

[N]ext week the White House will send the icon of violence on a diplomatic mission to the Middle East -- ostensibly, in Dana Perino's words, to "follow-up" on the diplomacy of the recent meetings in Sharm el Sheikh.

What a ridiculous idea. What a foolish idea.

Dick Cheney's visit to the Middle East will do to that region what saltwater does to an open wound, what gasoline does to an open flame. Cheney's visit will bring more pain, more flames, more bombs, more lost limbs, more piles of corpses, more puddles of blood, more destroyed Iraqi hopes, more destroyed U.S. military families.

Cheney's visit will send diplomatic efforts backwards, not forwards. It will destroy alliances, not build them.

The first step to ending the mess in Iraq is not to give Cheney a greater role, but to strip him of any role whatsoever.

no disagreement here...

i mentioned jeffrey feldman in a post earlier today... i see that he's become ever more visible in the blogosphere as his book has moved into publication... ah, well... that's the way of today's world, i guess... if we don't toot our own horn, nobody else is going to... (except me, of course, who's sitting here tooting jeffrey feldman's horn...)

Framing the Debate (link to NYT book review)
Famous Presidential Speeches and How Progressives Can Use Them to Change the Conversation (and Win Elections)
By Jeffrey Feldman
Ig Publishing
Brooklyn, New York, 2007

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