So I don’t generally have a lot of political stuff in here, but when it seems that every day we wake up with the world even more screwed up than the day before, I thought this post from Daily Kos really summed it up. Or more specifically, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews uttered something that I’ve been saying for months and months:
We’ve killed 50,000 Iraqi’s in a war that was supposed to be a two-day wonder. When are we going to notice that the neocons don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re not looking at this country’s long term interest. They’re bound up in regional and global ideology and they have had no experience, I’ll say it again, in even a school yard fight. They don’t know what physical fighting is all about.
Larry Johnson, the former CIA officer and counter-terrorism official, sees a lot of danger in the current Middle East situation as well. It’s worth noting that Larry pretty much had the Neocons’ number about the war in Iraq and the outing of Valerie Plame. He’s certainly worth listening to now. I’d certainly just his judgement more weight than that of a president who thinks it’s alright to give another head-of-state a backrub.
As many of the Neo-conservative chickenhawks in the Republican party are starting to beat the drums for an even greater expansion of their failed policies around the Middle East and the “war on terror”, how can we trust them?