Nope, Marko Attila Hoare is completely serious about this, sez Aaronovitch Watch. Left and right are outmoded political concepts, it’s now about being pro or anti-western. Where anti-western means “does not like Bush” or, at a pinch, “disagrees with Marko Attila Hoare”.
I remember way back when, before the Iraq war was a twinkle in Rummy’s sclerotic eye, being flamed horribly on usenet for suggesting that Americans were being bamboozled by their news and media outlets. They were most insulted: you’d’ve thought I’d suggested that all Americans committed incest as a matter of course considering the hysterical reaction.
So I never thought to see this tirade from Keith Olbermann, condemning Bush & Rummy and all their works, on US mainstream media – and on MSNBC no less.
He’s a bit tendentious (not to mention pompous) in parts, but you’ve got to applaud the sentiment. You can tell he’s been saving this up for a looong time.
Thanks to TRex at FDL for the link.
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Douglas Feith makes good his title:
Aug. 9 issue – Days after 9/11, a senior Pentagon official lamented the lack of good targets in Afghanistan and proposed instead U.S. military attacks in South America or Southeast Asia as “a surprise to the terrorists,” according to a footnote in the recent 9/11 Commission Report. The unsigned top-secret memo, which the panel’s report said appears to have been written by Defense Under Secretary Douglas Feith, is one of several Pentagon documents uncovered by the commission which advance unorthodox ideas for the war on terror. The memo suggested “hitting targets outside the Middle East in the initial offensive” or a “non-Al Qaeda target like Iraq,” the panel’s report states. U.S. attacks in Latin America and Southeast Asia were portrayed as a way to catch the terrorists off guard when they were expecting an assault on Afghanistan.
Because nothing scares terrorists as much as bombing completely uninvolved people! That’ll teach them!
