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By Weldon Berger, on January 26th, 2012
I have been lazy about referring the two of you to other blogs. I keep forgetting that it’s perfectly legitimate in this business to just quote stuff and then say I wrote something, which makes me feel better about not having written anything. Here are some things that people I like have found other people to be fantastically wrong about.
Jack Crow on the threat to traditional marriage:
If you’re looking for what degrades or corrupts the, heh, marriage bond, you ain’t ever going to find it the affections and affectations of homosexuals. But, you will find a whole lot of sundered wedded union in the wake of deployment, military industrial centralization and the austerity which follows war upon war. That shit is disruptive. The gays, not so much.
Continue reading Blogs on Parade: “They’re Wrong About Everything” edition
By Weldon Berger, on December 29th, 2011
The latest scam spam in my inbox is a letter from a high-ranking official of the International Monetary Fund telling me to deal only with him in recovering my money from Nigeria. What is it with Nigeria?
Okay, so the war in Iraq is over, according to Obama. This is because the Iraqis rejected his energetic pleas to let him keep some troops in the country—”Okay, not 30,000. How about 10,000? 5? 3500? Okay, fine, we’re leaving, but don’t blame me if we have to come back in with guns a-blazing …”—rather than observing the exit plan humorously agreed upon by the Bush administration.
But even with that we’re not leaving, not if you count the 16,000-strong crowd manning the murder holes in the State Department’s gigantic downtown Baghdad bunker. By way of comparison, that’s almost as many people as staff every other US embassy in the world combined, minus Afghanistan.
Continue reading The IMF wants me, plus, Iraq Who?
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 September 4th, 2011
The New York Times editorial board chooses the not-quite-successful-yet six-month effort to kill Muammar Gaddafi or chase him out of Libya as an occasion to scold our NATO friends; Barack Obama runs recent history in Iraq and Afghanistan through the scrubber; David Ignatius gives Tom Friedman a run for the money.
In an editorial entitled “NATO’s Teachable Moment“, the Times editors decry the degree to which the UK and France had to rely on the US to fill gaps in the NATO supply of munitions and accessories such as AWACs (Airborne Warning And Control System) aircraft during the six-month campaign against Libya. It is evidence, they say, that those countries are overly and unfairly reliant on the US war machine.
They also resurrect former US secretary of war Bob Gates’s hilarious warning that NATO countries “risked becoming militarily irrelevant unless they stepped up investment in their forces and equipment.”
To Gates and the editorial board, that’s a shameful future. But I ask you: could there possibly be any more cheerful fate in this day and age than to become militarily irrelevant?
Continue reading Today, we are all cheese-eating surrender monkeys
By Weldon Berger, on August 27th, 2011
Yesterday I wrote this somewhat carefully considered thing about how Obama’s reelection prospects aren’t as bad as a lot of people think because he’ll have many boatloads of money and the only official GOP candidates who aren’t too obviously insane to win in the general election are saddled with a Mormon problem that will probably doom them in the primaries. That could change, but so far none of the Republicans who don’t have those problems seem to think they can win, so they’re not running.
What never occurred to me is that Obama might run on his record; I just assumed he would run a two-pronged effort to paint Republicans as the slavering sociopaths they are while he proposes popular legislation that he can’t and probably doesn’t want to get passed. I forget that some people still take him seriously, and that presumably he and his staff do as well.
Continue reading So, well, okay: Maybe Obama really is toast.
By Weldon Berger, on April 20th, 2011
I wish only to point out that among the nearly 200 movers and shakers on the “progressive” email list in which I occasionally participate, not a single one thinks beating swords into ploughshares is a goal worth investing in.
Mostly that’s because nobody thinks taking down the business end of the empire is . . . → Read More: The myth of elephants; “I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
By Weldon Berger, on November 9th, 2010
While I’ve already addressed the Obama trip to India, and related items, I did not do so in British. For that, we turn to the Robot Pundits and their news and political analysis show, Beside The Point. They’re smarter! . . . . → Read More: Robot Pundits on the Obama excursion
By Weldon Berger, on November 4th, 2010
The United States is slightly less corrupt than France, exactly so as Belgium and more so than Barbados, Qatar and 19 other countries. This according to Transparency International, a shadowy group which is sort of like the Illuminati of transparency—I was going to say the Trilateral Commission but that organization now have a web . . . → Read More: America! We’re Number … Twenty-something. But we beat France!
By Weldon Berger, on October 21st, 2010
The shadowy, demonic organization known as WikiLeaks, until the past few days most famous for releasing tens of thousands of Pentagon documents reaffirming the degree to which the US adventure in Afghanistan was, is and will continue to be well and truly fucked, is now in the news for not releasing an even larger . . . → Read More: Anti-WikiLeaks clown car gets crowded, plus the World Bank and more
By Weldon Berger, on September 27th, 2010
When the military figured out the occupation of Iraq was bound to be long and bloody, they began looking for ways to bolster recruiting efforts that were beginning to flag because many potential recruits were beginning to realize that between Iraq and Afghanistan, the odds of serving in a combat zone were really, really . . . → Read More: Army sings the blues, or at least the “Too Fat Polka”
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Word of the Decade Ignoranus: An ignorant asshole.
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