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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Good of its kind, certainly.  Rich is a high-priced flack.

But, as you know John, it's not the pearl of great price.

It's a mere bauble, designed to mislead (if possible) even the elect...

That's why they gave a theatre critic the job.


On 8/1/10 2:16 PM, John W. wrote:
> Hmmm...a pearl.  Interesting metaphor.  So this is a GOOD thing, right?
>
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> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:12 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
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> 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!
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> Kiss This War Goodbye By FRANK RICH Published: July 31, 2010
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01rich.html?_r=2&hp
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01rich.html?_r=2&hp>
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> On 8/1/10 11:37 AM, Brussel Morton K. wrote:
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> *From Paul Street on a ZNet article:*
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> “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
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> http://www.zcommunications.org/revealing-moments-by-paul-street
>