Friday, May 30, 2008

Suck. On. This.

5 Years ago today, one of the nations "premier" foreign policy analysts said this: (via Atrios)

I think it [the invasion of Iraq] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie.
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We needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take out a very big stick right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble, and there was only one way to do it.
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What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?"

You don't think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna let it grow?

Well Suck. On. This.

Okay.

That Charlie was what this war was about. We could've hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could. That's the real truth.
For the record, Thomas Friedman still has a job as a prominent columnist at the New York Times, was named #16 of the top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy magazine and has gotten 2 multi-millon dollar book deals since 2003. Gotta love how the cream rises to the top, huh.

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