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By Weldon Berger, on January 25th, 2012
I didn’t get around to reading the State of the Union speech until this morning because the idiot White House didn’t post a transcript on their web site before I went to bed last night, and be damned if I’m going to subject myself to the audiovisual torment of a major political speech ever again. So I apologize to both of you for not responding immediately, as I hear that some malevolent homunculus from my former home state, Indiana, did.
The speech can be divided into two parts: the part that recognized and cashed in on all the pressure toward economic justice that Occupy created* during the past four months, and the part that didn’t.
Continue reading So Tu, Bluto?
By Weldon Berger, on October 22nd, 2011
I just completed a frank exchange of views with a devout Obama supporter who believes her president is curbing his liberal impulses from respect for the views of the losing voters on the right (they did lose, didn’t they?) and in order to establish a dynamic in which subsequent right-wing presidents will moderate their own ambitions from respect for Obama’s example and the voters who support it.
Well. Not exactly her president. She’s Canadian, although also Floridian. Hot Sun Bakes Canadian Brain. In the end we agreed that when Rick Perry invades Iran in five years after taking office by winning 45% of the popular vote, I will deserve to be drafted and sent off to fight and presumably die in that war because I think Democrats should pursue big projects like universal health care, the cramming of which down American throats led George W. Bush to invade Iraq. Damn you, Harry Truman!
Continue reading Let’s trade Obama to Canada for players to be named later
By Weldon Berger, on October 14th, 2011
If you were to set out building a fantasy Bad Foreign Policy team, one that could reliably saddle you with the most foul, murderous foreign policy disasters imaginable, the place you would want to start is here, at the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). That’s what the Bush administration did, staffing their foreign policy and national security establishments with signatories to the now-dormant organization’s statement of principles.
Continue reading The case for invading Iraq: Mitt Romney’s foreign policy team is on it
By Weldon Berger, on June 12th, 2011
Reader(s) whose memory extends back into the mists of prehistory, around 2003 or so, may recall how the US and other heavily-armed oil-consuming nations got Moammar Ghadaffi, or some variant thereof, to get out of the unconventional weapons business in exchange for working toward what passes for normal relations between them and him. One . . . → Read More: Too evil to breathe and yet they still do
By Weldon Berger, on October 2nd, 2010
The degree to which US government officials can speak without apparent embarrassment about the failures of other countries in arenas where their own country has not been quite the beacon of enlightened conduct that one would wish is awesome. Awesome, I say!
Take Hillary Clinton. Please. Madame Secretary has recently delivered distinctly peeved screeds . . . → Read More: Madame Secretary holds forth, trailing irony like sweet perfume
By Weldon Berger, on September 22nd, 2010
Whether intentionally or not I can’t say, but AP White House correspondent Ben Feller has written a comic story about the pending Obama address to the UN general assembly. Among the gems: “Since he last addressed the U.N. body, he won the Nobel Peace Prize and significantly increased U.S. forces in Afghanistan, trying to . . . → Read More: Obama travels to the UN, hideous ironies in tow
By Weldon Berger, on July 30th, 2010
Evidence to the contrary flushed down the memory hole, top US military and intelligence officials past and present are talking up the threat of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. Despite an open-ended commitment to the war in Afghanistan, victory there is assured; it’s Iran that scares them most.
The nominee to replace magical general . . . → Read More: General to Senate: Kabul’s a done deal; on to Tehran!
By Weldon Berger, on July 25th, 2010
Retired Air Force general Michael Hayden ran the National Security Agency from 1999-2005. Then he was the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for a year. And then he was CIA director, taking over after former CIA agent and former Congressman Porter Goss was ushered out the door under somewhat mysterious circumstances, from 2006 until . . . → Read More: Former Air Force/CIA/NSA/DNI guy shorts Iran futures on live TV
By Weldon Berger, on December 18th, 2009
What is “Why is the United States legally obligated to provide Israel with new military hardware whenever that nation feels a bit insecure?”
Yes, it’s not just a good idea, it’s the law! The Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2008 amended the Arms Control Export Act of 1976 to require that any U.S. arms . . . → Read More: Because there aren’t nearly enough guns in the Middle East
By Weldon Berger, on October 24th, 2008
I can’t believe anyone believes the CIA when it says that Iran was working toward nuclear weapons for a while but now they’re not. This sounds like they got snookered on the front end and now they’re covering for it. “Oh, shit. They weren’t working on a bomb. What do we do now?” I . . . → Read More: Genocide: crime against humanity or diplomacy by other means?
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Word of the Decade Ignoranus: An ignorant asshole.
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