Couldn't we all just have photographic memories? Julie Krueger wishing upon a star ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Quds forces Date: 1/31/2007 5:06:55 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: Thanks to RP for correcting me. I "sped read" the article until I came to the justifications for the war part, and my speed reading is not the best gauge of clarity, moral or otherwise. I should have gone back and school zone read the intro part once I realized the disconnect between what Lehmann was saying and Liberalism, but you all know how lazy I am and how disinclined to put myself out. Mike Geary still tired after all these Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:45 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Quds forces Mike wrote: > I don't know this Nicholas Lehmann. But I read the article you cited. > If he's a liberal, I'm a Maoist. Possibly in his defense, the article > was written in 2003 when even the NYT and the WP were supporting this > fiasco. I couldn't any justifiable cause for invading Iraq in his > article. I found a bunch of Neocon bullshit, Mike and I seem to disagree about the thrust of Lehmann's article. But neither of us has any wisdom or moral clarity (thank God), so what would you expect? The article has a lot of Neocon bullsihit in it because Lehmann was reporting on Neocon bullshit. Brian sees the article--wrongly--as a liberal's defense o(or justificaation) the justifications for the invasion being given out beforehand. Here's a paragraph from a later New Yorker article by him. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/041018fa_fact?041018fa_fact 'The long period of preparation for the war in Iraq now appears to have been devoted more to justifying a foregone conclusion than to actually preparing--except in the case of the invasion itself. The Administration's hawks relentlessly pushed for higher intelligence estimates of the threat that Saddam Hussein represented and for lower military estimates of what the invasion and the occupation would require. Haass, who was frozen out by the hawks, said, "There were a lot of loaded assumptions about the analysis: The aftermath would be a lesser included case of the war. The Iraqis would see the coalition as liberators and they'd be welcomed. Those who didn't buy in were excluded. People who raised implementation questions were seen as backdoor critics of the war." Robert Paul Reed College ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html