tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290152190457552426.post8792481569727482909..comments2023-11-07T05:29:51.839-05:00Comments on Pressing Issues: Eleven Years Ago: David Brooks, Iraq War HawkGreg Mitchell http://www.blogger.com/profile/05627773627527089158noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290152190457552426.post-35882838686962762822014-05-20T18:06:51.179-04:002014-05-20T18:06:51.179-04:00Brooks is particularly annoying for he is now publ...Brooks is particularly annoying for he is now publishing articles about some inexplicable democratic defecit which just happened to pop up after the "fall of the Soviet Union." Brooks dispassionately observes the deficit to result from the lack of a worthwhile opponent to the apparently visionless free world, completing ignoring the effect an illegal/useless war has had on citizens of democracies, particularly the most powerful one. To paraphrase the late Christopher Hitchens, warmongers should be out on the street, selling pencils from a cup.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290152190457552426.post-9476813756773854472014-03-17T11:16:01.992-04:002014-03-17T11:16:01.992-04:00In response to the comment before mine, the "...In response to the comment before mine, the "fifth column" piece was by Andrew Sullivan a few days after 9/11, not by Chris Hitchens about the Iraq War, unless I missed something the latter wrote (which is certainly possible).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290152190457552426.post-220172537234609282014-03-17T10:53:17.060-04:002014-03-17T10:53:17.060-04:00The "fifth column" lie was published by ...The "fifth column" lie was published by Andrew Sullivan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290152190457552426.post-86645963095166810112014-03-17T10:48:58.771-04:002014-03-17T10:48:58.771-04:00Let's not forget about the odious Chris Tweety...Let's not forget about the odious Chris Tweety Matthews who goes on and on NOW about he was against the war but he was SO for it at the time. Supposedly he and Russert went to the head of BSNBC and got Phil Donahue fired from his show for being anti-war. And I clearly remember watching Tweety and G. Gordon Liddy (!) sitting there watching the Mission Accomplished farce drooling all over themselves about the codpiece Smirk was wearing and how he was a hero and women love war and oh my gosh I have to go take a shower.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290152190457552426.post-9064900120128814332014-03-16T16:27:07.761-04:002014-03-16T16:27:07.761-04:00"Fifth column" remarkd was made by Sulli..."Fifth column" remarkd was made by Sullivan....another guy WRONG on the war.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290152190457552426.post-11133013316843632342014-03-16T15:59:30.709-04:002014-03-16T15:59:30.709-04:00Don't forget Ezra Klein and the vile Chris Hit...Don't forget Ezra Klein and the vile Chris Hitchens. His "fifth column" piece was particularly disgusting.<br />We weren't just critics of the ill-advised and monumentally ill-planned invasion and occupation of Iraq, we were to be viewed with suspicion. <br /><br />Ezra Klein wasn't so much Dubya's lapdog as David Broder's. He was a cheerleader when that was the popular position and the antithesis when the tide turned against the war. He wrote a mea culpa for his support but it was a half-measure that all but blamed the anti war movement for not being civilized enough to be taken seriously. Hitchens is dead but Ezra has shiny new venture paid for by someone who has more money than imagination. <br /><br />The point is, the pundits and opinion makers who cheered a war that stacked dead bodies like cord wood, continue to write and speak and get booked on TV. What this proves is our pundit class is dysfunctional. We need an upgrade.<br />They're some of the most vapid, self absorbed people on the face of the planet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290152190457552426.post-91134372837346781872013-03-25T00:24:31.728-04:002013-03-25T00:24:31.728-04:00David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, Peter Beinart, righ...David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, Peter Beinart, right wing lapdogs like George Will and Bill Kristol... There was a whole smattering of Iraq invasion cheerleaders in their cute little cheerleading outfits, waving their pom-pons and cheering on George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, Richard Perle and the rest of the PNAC neocons.<br /><br />The ones that particularly galled me were the Beinarts of the world who attacked critics on the left while claiming to be "of the left."<br /><br />Most of us knew that David Brooks was Karl Rove's ventriloquist dummy, mouthing whatever Karl had just whispered in his ear.<br /><br />I'm glad you're reminding Brooks. But, of course, he has no shame. He'll just write some pseudo-intellectual/psychological drivel justifying his earlier position.<br /><br />Or, more likely, he won't mention his hypocrisy and duplicity at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com