Last night Douglas Feith, the Pentagon official who devised the whole system of lying and manipulating the United States into Iraq, was honored with a major speech at the American Enterprise Institute. He was joined by Richard Perle and a host of the other neocon miscreants who joyfully took this country into a war that has, so far, cost us some 3900 young American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
Feith, who General Tommy Franks famously called, "the stupidest #%^@@ who ever lived" is writing a memoir about how he was right about Iraq all along. He is also, incredibly, a professor at Georgetown University, a school founded and run by the Society of Jesus, one of the most principled orders in Roman Catholicism.
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Full disclosure, I'm a Washingtonian and have known about Feith for some 25 years. Until this administration and this war came along, I had no idea that he had any interests in life other than promoting West Bank settlements. He was (and is) the most outspoken Likudnik in the Washington Jewish community, basically a very fringy character (viciously anti-Rabin, anti-Oslo, anti-peace). I would not have guessed that he could find the United States on a map, so utterly and completely involved is he with the Israeli far right.
But then he turns up at the Pentagon. The rest is history.
And thousands of dead Americans. Meanwhile, Michael Vick is going to jail for 23 months for killing some dogs. At the very least, Feith should be sentenced to spend the holidays with some of those families who are missing a son or daughter thanks to his war.
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