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| Subj: Charley Reese -- One smart dude
Date: 9/27/02 6:47:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: JGidusko@cfl.rr.com
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SEPT. 27, 2002
NEOCONSERVATIVES ARE CRAZY
BY CHARLEY REESE
The neoconservatives around George Bush are crazy. They actually
believe the United States can run about the world, overthrowing
governments by force and establishing democracies in their place.
This group of maniacs not only wants war with Iraq, but after that,
war with Syria, Iran and North Korea. Any government that doesn't meet
their standards of a modern, Western-style democracy is a target for
America's military might in their warped minds.
This is a prescription for the decline and fall of the American
Empire. Overextension -- urged on by a bunch of rabid intellectuals
who wouldn't know one end of a gun from another -- has doomed many an
empire. Just let the United States try to occupy the Middle East,
which will be the practical result of a war against Iraq, and
Americans will be bled dry by the costs both in blood and treasure.
This crowd has the gall to sneer at people trying to keep the
United States out of war as being "appeasers," if not traitors. They
act as if it were brave for a fat, pale-skinned journalist or
commentator to advocate war that will be fought by other people's sons
and daughters. It is the worst kind of moral cowardice to be for war
if you yourself are not going to participate in the fighting.
There is one, and only one, justification for war, and that is
self-defense when the country is actually attacked. For some two-bit
politician with a third-rate mind to tell the American people that a
Third World country is an imminent threat to the survival of the
United States is ludicrous. The only threat to the United States that
I can see on the present horizon is the folly of the Bush
administration.
I was really wrong about that guy. I thought he was smart. He's
not. Look at how he latches onto the bromides provided by his
speechwriters and then repeats them over and over. Look at how totally
unaware he is of the reality of the rest of the world, including the
United States.
It's hard to see how the "world's worst leaders" can actually
blackmail the United States with the "world's worst weapons," since
the United States itself has more of these world's worst weapons than
any country on the face of the earth except Russia. As a matter of
fact, we might even have one of the world's worst leaders, at least as
measured by competence.
As president, Bush ought to be paying close attention to countries
that have the capability of destroying the United States, and at the
moment, China and Russia are those countries. A lot is going on in
Russia that does not bode well for the democratic people in that
country. And maybe in the long run it does not bode well for us. If
Saddam Hussein could get an atomic bomb, it would be in a crate in a
warehouse. Every month, the Russians roll off the production line more
of their mobile ICBMs. Not only can these missiles strike the United
States, we can't even target them because we don't know where they
are. Mr. Bush is like a hunter looking at an ant and not seeing the
lion.
Bush showed us what a naive, out-of-touch-with-reality guy he is
when, after meeting the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, he
pronounced him a trustworthy friend "because I have looked into his
eyes and seen his soul." I think you could look at a career KGB
officer's eyes for a long time and not see anything he didn't want you
to see. Bush even proposed a nuclear disarmament treaty based on a
handshake, with not a word in writing. Fortunately, better heads led
him away from that foolish idea.
It's unfortunate that he has surrounded himself with
neoconservatives full of hubris. At their urging, he's acting like a
little boy who suddenly fancies himself a soldier and emperor of the
world.
(Write to Charley Reese at P.O. Box 2446, Orlando, FL 32802)
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