Posted at 12:58pm on Oct. 14, 2007
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review
It's 2007, and we better condemn the Young Turks because the genocide survivors are, Nancy said, "very old." (HINT: Most have long since died.)
By Mark Kilmer
Sunday, October 14, 2007
First on FOX News Sunday, with Brit Hume in for Chris Wallace, House Republican leader John Boehner accused Democrats of playing political games with both the SCHIP vote and the strange resolution, out-of-the-blue, on the Young Turks killing the Armenians, 1915-1917.
Next on FNS, Steny Hoyer proclaimed that the SCHIP vote was a "defining moment for the Republican Party." Will they choose to be compassionate or to follow their leaders blindly? On the World War I resolution, Hoyer scolded the Turkish government with being more concerned about a Congressional resolution than with their own security problems. (Likewise, I'll add, the Congressional Democrats should be more concerned with the well-being of our soldiers in Iraq and the region than with a specious proclamation designed to harm Republicans by hampering the efforts of our troops.
On MTP, Drs. Bill Cosby and Alvin Poussaint were on a book tour, discussing what ails the black community. Poussaint talked of the effects of the women's liberation movement on the black community, and the availability of qualified black men for marriage, which he blamed in part of the mandatory sentencing laws for crack cocaine. Cosby attacked the record company executives who demand the harsh lyrics in hip-hop music.
On TW, Speaker Nancy argued that the time is right to condemn the 90-year-old genocide perpetrated by the Young Turks of the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians during World War I because "many of the survivors are very old." (Most of them are dead, Nancy; the entire remainder are, by definition, very old.) She said that Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and torture were more dangerous to our troops than jeopardizing their supply lines into Iraq. And more of the standard Dem rhetoric: no compromise on SCHIP, etc.
Mitch McConnell was next on TW, telling Steph that there would be a compromise on SCHIP because they had to pass something. He predicted that this would be a "short term controversy." He offered a Washington Post editorial to counter General Sanchez's rants, and he said that the Senate Ethics Committee was dealing with Larry Craig.
On FTN, John McCain, in response to Bob Schieffer's questioning, pointed out Romney's flip from having once been "passionately pro-choice," as well as flips on immigration and taxes. He asked for a "little consistency." McCain said that his main problem with retired General Sanchez was that the general was not honest with the Senate early in the Iraq war, waiting until now to make assertions that would have helped McCain get rid of the "Rumsfeld policy" when it would have helped. McCain allowed that this may have happened because General Eric Shinseki was "fired" for speaking truth to power.
First on LE, Lindsey Graham told Wolf Blitzer that Sanchez had repeatedly told him that he had enough troops to prevail in Iraq. Blitzer suggested that Sanchez might be doing "pay back" for not getting his fourth star. Graham replied that the Abu Ghraib scandal was "out of control" under Sanchez's watch, as was the war itself. Graham gave the Maliki government until the end of the year to get its act together on reconciliation.
Next on LE, unrepentant Jimmy Carterite Zbigniew Brzezinski differentiated between our staying in Germany and Japan after World War II and plans to maintain a presence in Iraq by stating that Iraq is a "colonial war," while the Second World War was not. He said that it was "delusional" to call the war in Iraq any sort of World War III against the jihad. He laughed at General David Petraeus's statement that the Iraq Quds force was attacking us in Iran by point that of course the Quds would attack us when we were sponsoring enemies of the Iraqi government. On the Congressional Democrats' Young Turk Genocide resolution, Brzezinski pointed out that Congress had no business passing strange historical resolutions. He ignored that the resolution is designed only to achieve an end with which he agrees, i.e. disruption of the war effort in Iraq.
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It looks like the assessment here on this thread about the reason for the Turkey genocide resolution is becoming the consensus. It also looks like I was right in the preview to suggest that the reason Cosby and Poussant were on MTP was to bolster the Obama/Edwards (fictional) position that more black men were in prison than in college. (see here for details)
From the end of Kilmer’s review...
” Zbigniew Brzezinski will not be an octogenarian until next year. I wanted to clear that up. The unrepentant Jimmy Carterite, though, was again Wolf Blitzer’s guest on LE, just to have at Senator Graham.
Blitzer pointed out that General Sanchez (retired) had proclaimed that we cannot cut and run for Iraq, and Brzezinski said that no one is arguing that we should. He mumbled something about Baker-Hamilton. He demanded a date certain for our exit, but all we’re hearing is talk of staying there like we have in Korea. He said that we were building a super-fortress in the middle or Iraq to maintain a “colonial presence.” Wolf countered with the fact that the U.S. stayed in Germany and Japan after World War II, but Brzezinski argued that the Second World War was not a “colonial war.” The Iraq war was a colonial war, he said, and “Iraq is a colony.”
He said that it was “delusional” to call Iraq a World War III against Jihad.
Blitzer played a clip of General Petraeus pointing out that the Iranian Quds force attacking us in Iraq. Brzezinski said that of course they are attacking us in Iraq, because we were supporting internal enemies of the Iranian government.
Blitzer played a clip condemning the wild-eyed resolution right now against the Young Turks in World War I. Brzezinski blamed this all on the Iraq war, but he added that Congress has no business passing weird resolutions about points in history.
Brzezinski “get the sense” that the Syrian nuke plant bombed by the Israelis was not a big deal. He thinks the attack was a case of Israel flexing its muscles.”
Sorry I missed this lunatic’s ramblings (or maybe not).