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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
August 06, 2007
U.S. Foreign Policy Elite Celebrates Sixty Years Of Using The Exact Same Damn Playbook
Here's a quote from Eberstadt and Forrestal: A National Security Partnership, 1909-1949. Forrestal is James Forrestal, who after World War II became the first Secretary of Defense. Eberstadt is Ferdinard Eberstadt, who was a Wall Street financier and close friends with Forrestal, and helped create the National Security Council in 1947. This is what an assistant to Eberstadt reported about Eberstadt's views on foreign policy:
"Mr. Eberstadt said that the country was always run by crises...if one was not evident it had to be created to get things done."
Here's Russ Baker's article about Bush family friend and biography Mickey Hershkowitz:
According to Herskowitz, George W. Bush's beliefs on Iraq were based in part on a notion dating back to the Reagan White House—ascribed in part to now-vice president Dick Cheney, Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee under Reagan. “Start a small war. Pick a country where there is justification you can jump on, go ahead and invade."
And here's George Bush in the 2002 State of the Union address:
...time is not on our side. I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. I will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.
(Eberstadt quote lifted from Harry S Truman and the War Scare of 1948)
Posted at August 6, 2007 07:11 PM | TrackBack...Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee under Reagan. “Start a small war. Pick a country where there is justification you can jump on, go ahead and invade."
And there's the proof that under Democrats or Republicans, the playbook's the same. They just pass it amongst. It must be worn out by now.
Man, we could so be a great country... if we didn't have the need to measure our dicks incessantly.
It's so obsessive, that the neighbors have started to notice. They used to be polite about not staring, but we've gone so over the top that there's no sense in pretending any longer.
Posted by: Ted at August 7, 2007 07:20 PM
