Comments on: Quote Of The Day http://hispanicpundit.com/2010/06/25/quote-of-the-day-722/ Fri, 25 May 2012 13:40:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Jon http://hispanicpundit.com/2010/06/25/quote-of-the-day-722/#comment-242346 Jon Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:05:32 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2010/06/25/quote-of-the-day-722/#comment-242346 Note also what passes for criticism of war. "It can't be accomplished at a cost acceptable to ourselves." It's not that we have no business invading a country and toppling a government that has done nothing to us and is offering to hand over the perpetrators of the crime. There's no reflection of how we've wrecked the country and how that country was already a wreck thanks to US intervention. It's just that it can't be successful. That's criticism of war in the US propaganda system. You can read Nazis criticizing Hitler for opening an eastern front before dispatching with the British. It was a "strategic blunder." Soviets would say the same with regards to their invasion of Afghanistan. "It's a quagmire." Nothing about the many innocent people slaughtered. That's not real war opposition. I understand this is AEI so we do expect right wing talking points, but watch for that pattern on other media as well. Note also what passes for criticism of war. “It can’t be accomplished at a cost acceptable to ourselves.” It’s not that we have no business invading a country and toppling a government that has done nothing to us and is offering to hand over the perpetrators of the crime. There’s no reflection of how we’ve wrecked the country and how that country was already a wreck thanks to US intervention. It’s just that it can’t be successful. That’s criticism of war in the US propaganda system. You can read Nazis criticizing Hitler for opening an eastern front before dispatching with the British. It was a “strategic blunder.” Soviets would say the same with regards to their invasion of Afghanistan. “It’s a quagmire.” Nothing about the many innocent people slaughtered. That’s not real war opposition.

I understand this is AEI so we do expect right wing talking points, but watch for that pattern on other media as well.

]]> By: LaurenceB http://hispanicpundit.com/2010/06/25/quote-of-the-day-722/#comment-241687 LaurenceB Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:11:08 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2010/06/25/quote-of-the-day-722/#comment-241687 Mr. Murray seems to believe that "national humiliation" has (via Bush's "stubbornness" and the "purge"?) been avoided in Iraq. I respectfully disagree. Mr. Murray seems to believe that “national humiliation” has (via Bush’s “stubbornness” and the “purge”?) been avoided in Iraq.

I respectfully disagree.

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