[Peace-discuss] The message of wiki-leaks…

[C. G. Estabrook]

American liberalism is a closed oyster into which a mere grain of sand - the 
Wikileaks documents - has penetrated.  Here we see that echt liberal Frank Rich, 
equal to the challenge, beginning the process of covering the offending element 
with a first layer of nacre, by the same living process as is used in the 
secretion of the mother of pearl covering that lines liberalism's shell...

Behold - a pearl!

	Kiss This War Goodbye
	By FRANK RICH
	Published: July 31, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01rich.html?_r=2&hp


On 8/1/10 11:37 AM, Brussel Morton K. wrote:
> *From Paul Street on a ZNet article:*
>
> “The lesson; no, the message; no, um, the takeaway of the leaked documents is
> not: if only they knew how badly it's going, how hard it's going to be, then the
> administration would bring an end to the conflict. Rather, the takeaway; no, the
> message is that even knowing how badly the war goes, they persist. The lesson is
> not the Administration's blindness, but its dogged intransigence, its total
> commitment to the endeavor, regardless of the means or outcome, regardless of
> the possibility of reward, regardless of the cost, regardless of suffering,
> regardless of sense and duration. The United States has an institutional
> commitment to the occupation of Afghanistan. It can't be argued out of it.”*[7]*
> *
> *
> One of the best reflections about Wiki-Leaks and related matters. See
>
> http://www.zcommunications.org/revealing-moments-by-paul-street