Das Gute Amerika

Ja, es gibt sie.  Die wirklichen Intellektuellen, die sich nicht von Moden beeinflussen lassen.  Einer der Besten, und daher viel und fast ausschliesslich zu unrecht Kritisierten, ist Paul Krugman.  Via Greenpagan ist seine NY Times Kolumne von heute auch ohne Abonnement zu lesen:

Shortly after U.S. forces marched into Baghdad in 2003, The Weekly Standard published a jeering article titled, “The Cassandra Chronicles: The stupidity of the antiwar doomsayers.” Among those the article mocked was a “war novelist” named James Webb, who is now the senator-elect from Virginia.

The article’s title was more revealing than its authors knew. People forget the nature of Cassandra’s curse: although nobody would believe her, all her prophecies came true. And so it was with those who warned against invading Iraq. At best, they were ignored. A recent article in The Washington Post ruefully conceded that the paper’s account of the debate in the House of Representatives over the resolution authorizing the Iraq war — a resolution opposed by a majority of the Democrats — gave no coverage at all to those antiwar arguments that now seem prescient.

At worst, those who were skeptical about the case for war had their patriotism and/or their sanity questioned. The New Republic now says that it “deeply regrets its early support for this war.” Does it also deeply regret accusing those who opposed rushing into war of “abject pacifism?”
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Ich kann mich noch genau erinnern was Kritikern unterstellt wurde.  Spencer Ackerman hat es nicht so fein ausgedrueckt wie Krugman:

How many times did you intimate to me that I was in league with the terrorists when I told you to get out of Iraq? Hey, Leon, do you remember the editorial meeting after the Blackwater lynching in late March 2004? That was the first time I said I thought the war was unwinnable, and that was the first time you told me ("joking," of course) that I was fired. Yeah, it was funny the first time, I guess, but after the next hundred, the joke gets kind of old.

Das ist Amerika: ein Land in dem Verrueckte Regieren koennen und von noch Verrueckteren unterstuetzt werden.  Und noch schlimmer, die Buerger haben's nicht verstanden...

Comments

[Majentha]

Unglaublich,aber wahr Obwohl die Mutter insistierte,es handle sich nicht um ihren Sohn, und dabei von Zeugenaussagen wie Indizien unterstützt wurde, erklärte das seinerzeit durch und durch korrupte LAPD den Fall für geschlossen um negative Publicity zu vermeiden.
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Majentha

Guaranteed ROI

[Amerika dil okullari]

Amerikada Egitim. Any info in English ???

[Laura]

Wann ich probierte das Idee zu präsentieren, dass ein Krieg in Iraq eine schlechte Idee wäre, hatte ein Kollegen mir gesagt: "I'd like to kill anyone who doesn't support George Bush!"

Ich haltete den Mund.