Frank Rich in today's Sunday Times circles the larger web of gangster/pols -
Delay et al - who have been selling the USA Federal Gov off to the K Street
lobbyists representing the highest corporate bidders. This foiled against a
Democratic party without either anthem or song (i.e., that 'vision thing'!)
Unfortunately unlike former direct web access, you have to pay to get to
Frank these days. Up in the morning and off to pay $5 at the corner NY Times
vendor or a subscription gets you Online access to the Blue Chips.
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
New blog site / same archives!
> Not to mention what has happened to Hitchens -- just by taking the OAth
> of Citizenship or whatever it is?
>
> A once rather admirable mind gone where?
>
> Wolfowitz is just a slightly more articulate member of a crowd, all
> gone bad... (& we need to hope all will someday be convicted, but I'm
> not holding my breath...)
>
> Doug
> On 2-Oct-05, at 1:36 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
>
>> I blame Plato - he *started* it...
>>
>> Wolfie's "passion for spreading democracy in the Middle East" - not in
>> itself an unappealing trait - would have been perfectly harmless if
>> he'd channelled it into playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. He
>> seems to have been one of those peripheral intellectuals, bit wacko,
>> vulnerable to flattery, who get picked up when powerful interest
>> groups decide they need someone to put a civilized veneer on whatever
>> dastardliness they happen to be about. Why someone like Hitchens
>> abominates Kissinger and champions Wolfowitz is a bit beyond me; the
>> difference I suppose is an opposing stance vis-a-vis "tyranny", but in
>> many respects they seem cut from the same cloth.
>>
>> Dominic
>>
>>
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> There was the usual amount of corruption,
> intimidation, and rioting.
> Sir Charles Petrie
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