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Saturday, Jul 22, 2006
Shorter Condoleezza Rice
All we are saaaying is give war a chance.
David S. Cloud & Helene Cooper
New York Times
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Lebanon, American officials said Friday.
The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the officials said. Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments and others because of the appearance that the United States is actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign.
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Implicit in the eventual diplomatic package is a cease-fire. But a senior American official said it remained unclear whether, under such a plan, Hizbullah would be asked to retreat from southern Lebanon and commit to a cease-fire, or whether American diplomats might depend on Israel’s continued bombardment to make Hizbullah’s acquiescence irrelevant.
Vietnam and the Presidency
American RadioWorks has an hour long documentary of conference hosted by the JFK Library in Boston. The conference was devoted to discussing the legacies and lessons of the American War in Vietnam. Since some of the policy makers were present, and were subjected to questioning by the audience, it was quite revealing of the egos and thought processes behind the quagmire. Kissinger, in particular, show that an assimilated immigrant can easily become an Ugly American.
Kissinger and others will go to their graves thinking we could have won if only we had had the will to kill more civilians.
The lesson reinforced is that cruel and violent people shouldn't be put in charge of the most powerful military in the history of the world.
Hmmm. Do I make the leap of getting a YouTube account to see the possibly "inappropriate" video of Pamela and the Sweater Puppies fighting the good fight against Islamofascism?