Centre For American What?

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Via Max Sawicky. I see that the Center for American Progress hosted a conference last week to examine

” how the United States can re-assert its leadership for a more peaceful, prosperous, and secure world. “.

Are you kidding me? Re-assert it’s leadership? Not “work with others on a multilateral approach to international peace and justice and clean up the godawful fucking mess we made”? That’s what I’d call progressive,

But no, as it always is, it’s all about asserting US dominance some more, which in case no-one noticed, is what got us into this mess to begin with.

Guess which ‘progressives’ CAP chose to lead the discussion?

Speakers included former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, former CIA Director John Deutch, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt Daniel Kurtzer, former Secretary of Treasury Bob Rubin, Senator Gordon Smith, and former Deputy Commander, Headquarters U.S. European Command Charles Wald

Yeah, because they did such a brilliant job last time. Former director of the Trilateral Commission Brzezinski and Bush wiretap program supporter Tom Daschle are bad enough: but Madeline bloody Albright?

The woman who said this?

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.

–60 Minutes (5/12/96)

[My emphasis]

Wow, I bet that little gang have some new and inniovative political ideas like… er….er… I’m going to go and bang my head on the table for a while.

“Centre for American Progress” my ass; how about “Centre for American Exceptionalism and Hubris”? There you go, do-nothing centrist liberals, I fixed your elitist dem thinktank title for you.

Published by Palau

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, washed the t-shirt 23 times, threw the t-shirt in the ragbag, now I'm polishing furniture with it.

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  • bjacques

    June 19, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    PNAC for Democrats? Wesley Clark’s been sniffing the air for a possible White House run, last I heard.

    After 580 more days of Bush, I doubt any future president can line up allies for so much as a declaration of International Kittens Are Cute Day.

  • Palau

    June 20, 2007 at 7:34 am

    Some of PNAC are Democrats and this is that very Joe Lieberman tendency out in full fig at this conference. I think they’re looking further than 2008, rather to 2012, but after 680 more days of Bush, I wonder if there’ll be elections in view at all. I predict the announcement of a ‘national catastrophe’ and the declaration of emergency powers first…

    Now where’s my tinfoil hat gone?

  • z

    July 8, 2007 at 7:50 pm

    I went to CAP’s campus progress event and iraq lobbying a few weeks ago and I noticed a visible line between CAP (center-right) and most of the participants in the conference — like Seymour Hesrch and Ralph Nader — who obviously felt CAP was not all that progressive.