'Obama's Wars': The gang that couldn't shoot straight -- or shut up

[Demeter]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092905607.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns


A COUPLE OF PARAGRAPHS CANNOT DO THIS COLUMN JUSTICE--IT IS AN ANALYSIS OF VIEWPOINTS OF ALL PARTIES IN AFGHANISTAN WAR AND WELL WORTH YOUR ATTENTION--IF ONLY FOR THE DARK HUMOR.

[KoKo]

1. Demeter, I read it...but since it comes from Eliot Cohen...NeoCon...

I wondered about the malevolent intent of it... Note that WaPo doesn't give his background. They just say he's a "Professor of History at Johns Hopkins." Those NeoCons...they just never stop.

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Eliot A. Cohen
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Eliot A. Cohen, a "prominent neo-conservative hawk and leading champion" of the war in Iraq, was appointed as State Department counselor by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In April 2007, Cohen will replace the position "left vacant late last year by Rice's longtime confidant, 'realist' thinker Philip Zelikow." <1>

"A close friend and protege of former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz and advisory board member of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Cohen most recently led the harsh neo-conservative attack on the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG), co-chaired by former secretary of state James Baker and former Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton," Jim Lobe wrote March 6, 2007, in the Asia Times.

"Like his fellow neo-cons, Cohen was particularly scathing about the ISG's recommendations for Washington to engage Syria and Iran directly and revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process - recommendations Rice herself has explicitly endorsed in the past few weeks," Lobe wrote.

"Cohen first gained national prominence shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when he published a Wall Street Journal column titled World War IV - a moniker quickly adopted by hardline neo-cons such as former director of central intelligence and fellow DPB member James Woolsey, former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, and Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney (on whose board Cohen also sits) - to put Bush's 'war on terror' in what he considered to be the appropriate historical context and to define its enemy as 'militant Islam'.
"After defeating the Taliban, Cohen argued, Washington should not only 'finish off' Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, whom he accused of having 'helped al-Qaeda', but also seek to overthrow 'the mullahs' in Iran whose replacement by a 'moderate or secular governme

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eliot_A._Cohen

[madrchsod]

2. what planet is this guy living on?

[Demeter]

3. Even a blind pig can find a truffle

Is there some reason--a Factual reason--to invalidate his opinion? Or is this an exercise in some kind of political bigotry?

[WhiteTara]

4. they don't ever stop, do they?

It is like fighting a hydra. Chop off one head and ten more emerge!

[Romberry]

5. You understand that attacking the messenger...

...is a basic fallacy of logic, yes? That (resort to fallacious argument)is what people do when they have no real argument. Can you rebut Cohen's op-ed or can't you? From your post, it appears that you can't.

[babylonsister]

6. Baloney. Your logic is flawed. What benefit would Cohen realize from

applauding Obama? It would negate everything this neocon hawk stands for.

[babylonsister]

7. Unrec. nt