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denied any involvement but mullen s comments are the most direct and most explosive accusations by a senior u s official of direct complicity by pakistan s chief intelligence agency in attacks on american facilities and military personnel not any sort of surprise that they would deny it relations between the u s and pakistan have been strained for a while and this is likely to seal their fate it s almost certainly true though and it s difficult to say what it ll mean pakistan s a nuclear power so any sort of direct action is impossible even if it weren t a bad idea but the united states will have to do something to make it clear that the isi cannot be allowed to continue supporting this sort of action what s likely then is that the american government will take this as a go ahead for continued drone attacks in pakistan on the haqqani network that was behind this attack it keeps americans out of harm s way and they re insulated from pakistani objections by the fact that the isi is partially responsible for this in the first place it won t solve the problem but it s the only plausible action that presents itself posted by demosthenes at 12 05 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels afghanistan kabul pakistan terrorism thursday september 22 2011 orwell on unemployment from wigan pier but there is no doubt about the deadening debilitating effect of unemployment upon everybody married or single and upon men more than upon women the best intellects will not stand up against it once or twice it has happened to me to meet unemployed men of genuine literary ability there are others whom i haven t met but whose work i occasionally see in the magazines now and again at long intervals these men will produce an article or a short story which is quite obviously better than most of the stuff that gets whooped up by the blurb reviewers why then do they make so little use of their talents they have all the leisure in the world why don t they sit down and write books because to write books you need not only comfort and solitude and solitude is never easy to obtain in a working class home you also need peace of mind you can t settle to anything you can t command the spirit of hope in which everything has got to be created with that dull evil cloud of unemployment hanging over you welcome to america s future ladies and gentlemen the longer this nonsense lasts the worse it gets and with the choice of a democratic president that according to suskind s latest doesn t understand the central importance of aggregate demand on the economy vs a republican opposition that devoutly wishes that the long term unemployed would just crawl into a hole and die quietly it s likely to be getting worse for a good long time posted by demosthenes at 1 15 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels orwell unemployment monday september 12 2011 krauthammer s tiger rock all these years and charles krauthammer is still insisting that the lack of a second aq attack proved that the war on terror worked of course you could just as plausibly argue for the release of alice cooper s dragontown as the reason why there was no second attack what s really funny is that he s pretending that two hot wars in the war on terror didn t cost a truckload of money because it was only a little more than a trillion dollars apparently a fair percentage of the yearly domestic product of the united states isn t a big deal to him entitlements are a big deal to him of course they usually are to wealthy apologists for the ultra rich especially ones like krauthammer that haven t the faintest clue how any of this works and are just mouthing the words they re told to say by their handlers and sponsors social security and medicare unlike the botched conflicts that he advocates and apologizes for actually help people krauthammer wouldn t know what helping people was like if you gave him diagrams it isn t as bad as the spectacle of a bush admin neoconservative trying to take credit for the arab spring like michael gerson that goes beyond wrong to simply nauseating but it still shows us exactly why america is in the fix it is because people like this are given newspaper columns fame and power instead of people with ideas insights track records and a positive outlook one of the lessons of the last decade is really simple never trust neoconservatives they cannot govern countries they cannot fight wars they cannot budget responsibly and they cannot be trusted to provide advice about anything mock them deride them and dismiss them if you want just never ever trust them their ideas are poison and their doctrines corrupt they were wrong they were always wrong they always will be posted by demosthenes at 2 18 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 9 11 anniversary krauthammer neoconservatives terrorism sunday september 11 2011 so it s the 9 11 2001 anniversary it s really bad now there s still hope ten years it s been ten years since osama bin laden s people attacked the world trade center and the pentagon ten years since the united states discovered that it was vulnerable i don t think america has gotten over that not really as was constantly pointed out at the time america hadn t had a real attack on mainland soil since the civil war nobody knew what to expect nobody knew how they d react they found out it was shock horror dread and confusion there was also a bit of disbelief everybody including myself felt like it was something out of a movie it wasn t real things like that don t happen for real ten years since america went slightly mad no really how else can you explain the war on terror it was always a bad idea it was always somewhat incoherent it s pretty much over now and the consensus is that it was never properly thought out or worked that well attacking afghanistan robbed al qaeda of their home base but botching the occupation gave al qaeda s taliban allies renewed strength and the relationship between pakistan and the taliban was a big issue for years quite rightly as it turns out since osama was hiding out in pakistan it wasn t until the war on terror ended that 9 11 s chief architect was found and killed if anything repudiates it that would well anything except iraq it s been ten years since a group of mad delusional idiots that call themselves neoconservatives a group that s always been obsessed with iraq seized control of the levers of american foreign and defense policy and proceded to drive it into the ground almost all the goodwill that america received after the attack was burned away by these fools and their obsession with iraqi conquest almost all the advantages gained in bloody afghanistan combat were bled away by the iraq misadventure and pretty much every ally of note that helped america in afghanistan walked away in shock and disgust almost all of america s credibility as an international voice as an exemplar and as a friend to democracy ended thanks to the neoconservatives iraq adventure the worst thing about it isn t even the invasion not really the worst part was the botched occupation america treated its iraqi subjects terribly inflicting the worst sort of horrible right wing bullshit on them at the hands of the worst sort of republican apparatchiks one need only read rajiv chandrasekaran s imperial life in the emerald city to see just how badly the green zone was run and how ruinous the republicans have been and yes it s been ten years since the foundations were set for the current economic crisis sure the regulatory changes that opened the door for the excesses of wall street were made back in the 1990s but absent all this adventurism america s fiscal situation would be very very different and the republicans wouldn t have been able to wave the flag in order to silence critics of their broken oligarchic economic policy hell bush would have probably have been kicked out of the white house in short order what a better world it would be he should have been kicked out all this happened on his watch there s more than enough evidence that the ideological fervor of his administration helped blind them to the threat posed by al qaeda republicans are very good though at making people think that they re good at both economics and security when they re utterly terrible at anything but punishing the poor and striking macho poses they didn t deserve it but they got it anyway so ten years later how is america america is broke america is dispirited america s workers are unemployed underemployed or massively overworked america had to win its war only by giving up the idea that it s a war at all america s poor leadership and deluded right wing economists helped drag down the entire world to the point of threatening the very existence of the european project america s corporations and a tiny ultra rich minority are doing quite nicely but nobody else is america s sinking into the sort of inequality and oligarchy that s normally associated with third world dictatorships worst of all ten years later america s governing plutocrats still won t even pay all of the medical bills of the brave men and women that risked their lives helping people to survive this horrible attack yet there is hope this has been a terrible decade but there is still hope i still remember how people drew together after the attack i remember people lining up to give blood to any survivors i remember the strong national resolve to keep going and to show that people would not be intimidated by extremist thugs no matter how they dress i still remember the times when americans came together most recently back in 2008 to say that they wanted a better country i remember how people bust their asses to try to improve their life and station and still believe in the american dream of prosperity despite every single piece of evidence in the world telling them otherwise americans should remember that the solution to the current malaise isn t difficult despite the anti worker rhetoric it isn t about americans being lazy or stupid or unskilled the current recession and stagnation is just the side effect of a lack of aggregate demand that s it it s eminently fixable too if americans come together to rebuild and and improve the infrastructure that lies at the foundation of their economy if they help their friends relatives and neighbours that are currently unemployed and if they realize that american citizens are the job creators not the plutocrats that have been mismanaging their money they can bring their country back it ll mean that some americans will need to set aside certain assumptions conservative doesn t mean prudent a government s finances are not that of a household belt tightening is not the way to fix an economy stimulus doesn t mean bank bailouts you should identify with your fellow citizens instead of the wealthy plutocrats that are sucking the country dry and sending the wealth offshore privacy and civil rights aren t negotiable no matter how many times someone says the word war and for the love of god everybody needs to remember that republican ideologues are terrible at governing and always will be if that can happen though then america can move forward americans can look back on this horrible past decade as a cautionary tale and teach their children the lessons they need to learn so that it never ever happens again ever posted by demosthenes at 4 22 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 9 11 anniversary tuesday september 06 2011 chait s comedy gold so yeah jonathan chait wrote a howler in the new york times where he brought the rank rightish apologias of the national review new republic to the times it s a typical chaitesque piece where he talks about how horrible the left is and how they re all delusional and about how everybody that mattered thought that obama s stimulus was huuuuge yep that s right to chait paul krugman doesn t matter the funniest bit though comes later it isn t the bit where he studiously ignores everything that bush succeeded in pushing through congress to focus on social security the one bit where he didn t it wasn t even the bit where he treated colin freakin powell as some sort of nonpartisan barometer of opinion when he was one of bush s cabinet members no the funniest bit has to be the part where he says in the position of choosing between the agenda he came into office hoping to enact and the short term imperative of economic rescue he picked the former you may ask when the hell did he do that he didn t succeed in winning any republicans over for health care and every other significant bit of his agenda either didn t pass or was so watered down as to be unrecognizable and that s just it he doesn t say he did mention cap and trade and financial reform but both are examples that liberals are right about this his capital banking was absolutely useless and unnecessary because it didn t buy him a damned thing when it came to the point when he started trying to actually pass his agenda never mind the republicans even his own party members treated him like a supplicant instead of the leader of their party and the damned president of the united states bush was never ever treated that way by republicans even when they disagreed with him they weren t that dumb tthey knew very well that bush s people would punish them if they fell out of line dinos never had to worry about that why would they the only people that obama ever punished were the very progressives that chait so thoroughly and utterly despises so the dinos stomped all over this agenda again and again and again with progressives getting more and more convinced that obama was either powerless or a closet republican progressives feel that they ve been had progressives know that they ve been had it s funny yes but it s also somewhat sad this isn t the only misrepresentation of progressives criticism the whole article is absolutely littered with them it s a stack of strawmen built so high that satellites may crash into the top layer yet i can t help but think that these cartoonish versions of progressives are how chait actually views us everything he writes just reconfirms it including his submission to the biggest newspaper in america i wonder whether it s even his fault when washington is so thoroughly utterly hostile to progressives when it s a town so thoroughly dominated by the republicans and their conservative movement owners how could he possibly resist it he probably never even meets progressives i suspect that at this point he just knows us from the stereotypes that he inherits from the republicans and dinos around him so we get articles like this where he knocks down strawmen and hopes that nobody notices it d be funny if it weren t so sad posted by demosthenes at 1 40 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to 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