AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY:

TNR ^ | April 9, 2004 | Greg Easterbrook

[.cnI redruM]

That's why I follow Easterblog. He's got stones of solid brass. I don't always agree with him. Perhaps 40% of the time, in actuality. But he says what he thinks no matter what.

[Numbers Guy]

I'm glad I checked, I was just about to post this myself. This responds to the conspiracy theorist widow comments (not to mention Richard Clarke) better than anything I've read up until now.

[snooker]

Now that's good!!!!

[.cnI redruM]

Go ahead and post it. I never take a well-intentioned thread stomping the wrong way.

[litehaus]

Never make the "short list" of things to read at DU!...LOL!!

[jocon307]

"Are some of the writers going to support Bush?"

That wouldn't surprise me, we've got secret ballots for just that reason : )

TNR was excellent, excellent, after 9/11, and Peretz the publisher is a super strong supporter of Israel. So, all in all, I peg them as liberal with sanity.

I don't go to that site much anymore, since there is not too much you can read for free. I'm so cheap, but when I retire I will subscribe to everything!

This is a wonderful piece, it's really a poke in the eye of all those who are so proud of their 20/20 hindsight. Since it's from the center-left media, it may get some legs. It'll be interesting to see if it does.

Thanks to you, .cnI, we can say we saw it here first!

[GOP_1900AD]

Totally tongue in cheek .. it would have been sort of cool if Rice would have answered every question with "Sir, to do otherwise would have been considered politically incorrect by the Libaral intelligencia and ill informed and indecisive swing voters." Sadly, this satire depicts harsh realities regarding freedom to act. On September 10, Bush had no freedom to act, September 11 onward, he had a sliver of it.

[syriacus]

Oh, and furthermore. How many people out here who believe Bush attacked Iraq, without sufficient evidence, are now demanding to know why nothing was done to prevent 9-11?

How many people?

Too many

[Travis McGee]

Great satire! Biting, and on the bullseye!

[Redcloak]

I was thinking just this morning how the libs would have screamed if Bush had "done something" to prevent 9-11. Arresting Atta and his cohorts would have started a jihad by the ACLU. Singeing so much as a single hair on bin Laden's beard would have brought full-throated howls of outrage from well of the Senate.

[Congressman Billybob]

If any more proof be needed that lib/Dems live in an alternative universe, this article provides it. If the same standards suggested in this article had applied in 1941, Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt would both have been removed from office for their "folly and criminality" in opposing the Nazi government of Hitler's Germany.

The only thing of interest about this article is that there are reporters and editors who are such geo-political morons that they would write and publish such cr*p. And that there are thousands of Americans who will read such garbage and take it seriously.

It is pathetic, but necessary under the First Amendment, that people like this are loose in the streets of America without a keeper. Freedom to speak is, of course, no guarantee that those who do speak will have two functioning brain cells to rub together.

"The Passion of the Christ, and of the World." Latest column that is an Easter present for the FR community.

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread). Please do it now.

[Congressman Billybob]

Are you CERTAIN this article is a satire?

Billybob

[Just another Joe]

It hasn't taken long to forget the events of 9-11.

Never forget, Never Forgive

[BroncosFan]

Ping

[F.J. Mitchell]

Great satire.

[BibChr]

That is really, really good. I only wish he'd "quoted" more senators, commentators, and "experts."

Dan

[XHogPilot]

Mega Bump

[GarnetGirl04]

Devistating essay. I too was not terribly hawkish before 9/11, and I'm a staunch conservative republican. If you couldn't have convinced me, how could Bush have convinced Graham, Daschle, Kerry, et al?

In Iraq, we had proof of previous weapons use, and Hussein wouldn't disarm in public. Can you imagine trying to get people to worry about a bunch of guys with no location, no evidence of wmd, no specific time, no specific weapon? Even if someone, somewhere had found the specific plan, they'd say Bush was out of his tree, reading too many Clancy novels.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Thanks for the ping. Good article.

[Alas Babylon!]

May I forward this to liberals who are howling over Dick Clarke's testimony?