This Paul Craig Roberts seems a bit disturbed to me.
Anyone know what happened to him?
His mommy made the wrong "choice"?
He works at the Hoover institution. Is this guy supposedly a conservative?
Yes leftist moonbats, impeach George Bush. If he is removed from office you get to deal with 3 years of... President 'Halliburton' Cheney. *cackle*
Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, research fellow at the Independent Institute and senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A former editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, he writes a political commentary column for Creators Syndicate. He also writes a monthly economics column for Investors Business Daily . In 1992, he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993, he was ranked as one of the top seven journalists by the Forbes Media Guide .
He was distinguished fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996. From 1982 through 1993, he held the William E. Simon chair in political economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 1981 to 1982, he served as assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy. President Reagan and Treasury Secretary Regan credited him with a major role in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and he was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy." From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy.
In 1987, the French government recognized him as "the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism" and inducted him into the Legion of Honor.
Dr. Roberts' latest book, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, is The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice (2000, Prima Publishing). The New Colorline: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy, also co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, was published by Regnery in October 1995. Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, co-authored with Karen LaFollette, was published by the Cato Institute in 1990. His book, The Supply-Side Revolution, was published by Harvard University Press in 1984. Widely reviewed and favorably received, the book was praised by Forbes as "a timely masterpiece that will have real impact on economic thinking in the years ahead." He is the author of Alienation and the Soviet Economy, published in 1971 and republished in 1990, and Marx's Theory of Exchange, Alienation, and Crisis, published in 1973 and republished in 1983.
Roberts has held numerous academic appointments and has published many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Public Finance Quarterly, Public Choice, Classica et Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Rivista Di Politica Economica, and Zeitschrift Fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has contributed to Commentary, The Public Interest, Harper's, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Fortune, Investor's Business Daily, London Times, Financial Times, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, IL Sole 24 Ore, Le Figaro, Liberation and The Nihon Keizai Shimbun. He has testified before committees of Congress on over 30 occasions.
Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Virginia, the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University, where he was a member of Merton College.
His column used to be in the Washington Times and I read him after 9/11 but was struck by the unrelenting negativity. It got so bad that I just stopped reading him and I don't believe the Times runs his columns anymore or if he's widely syndicated. I sense he's a nuttier version of John McLaughlin and Pat Buchanan--conservatives who jumped the shark.
I was surprised to see him posted on this site and how far he's come from even when I was reading him.
That's all I know.
From the tenor of his article, it sounds like he has either joined the Paleocon Buchananite "pitchfork brigade", or has waded so deeply into valueless Libertarianism that he no longer sees Evil for what it is. Either way, he's off the reservation. My experience has been: scratch a Paleocon and you'll find an anti-Semite underneath. Scratch a Libertarian, and you'll find a coward.
Anyone know what happened to him?
To quote Michael Savage "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder".
Yes, he had vastly different views in the past.
Syria, Iran, N. Korea and some others posed a far greater threat than Iraq. However, from a STRATEGIC angle, If Afghanistan and Iraq were "converted", it would isolate Iran and make it easier to eventually see them leave their wacko/terrorist ways. In this sense, I think the arguement "why Iraq" is not looked at by Bush critics from a strategic angle but by a nation by nation tactical angle.
My criticism of Bush centers around the financial, the tactics used, and Bush's ignoring of the invasion from Mexico.
It was wrong to spend $300 billion dollars and to be politically correct. We were attacked on 911. It would have cost next to nothing to use a few well-placed tactical nukes and then go in and target strictly leadership. This fighting the foot-soldiers and "insurgents" is nuts, as well as rebuilding Iraq and spending $300 billion dollars. We should have let Europe "rebuild Iraq" after we leveled the damn place. No matter if we spend $300 billion or $3 trillion, the people in that region will still hate us, even if we bankrupt ourselved doing it.
Bush's financial managment and decision making has been atrocious. Continuing this Mr. Nice Guy Politically correct way to wage war is killing America. We should be using the $300 billion to improve our national security and procure new advanced weapons and to beef up our Special Ops forces, not wasting it on the Arabs who will always hate us regardless.
Maybe some of these things bug Paul Craig Roberts also.
He slipped out of the hands of the doctor who delivered him and landed on his head. The doctor was seven feet tall.