The Fall of Scott Ritter
By John
OPFOR
Check out the former UNSCOM inspector's rant about Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons:
<<< The problems that plague Washington DC on the issue of Iran are the same problems that haunt America overall regarding Iraq -- no clear understanding of why we as a nation are doing what we are doing where we are doing it, and absolutely no system of accountability for those who are implicated, directly through their actions or indirectly through abrogation of duties and responsibilities, in embroiling America in such senseless conflict. There seems to be, especially among the so-called "anti-war" crowd, a tendency to blame the "system" for all that ails us, with a specific trend to isolate particular nodes of economic and/or political power for special indictment.
In this light, the current war in Iraq and the real possibility of war with Iran becomes the responsibility of "Big Oil," the "Neo Cons," the "Military Industrial Complex," and more recently, the "Israeli Lobby." There are more names one can add to the list; everyone, it seems, is to blame. Congress, while not getting a pass, does get special dispensation in so far that we can understand why the elected representatives of the people abrogate the trust and confidence we place in them by noting that they have fallen under the ever expanding control of "special interests," namely the aforementioned power nodes that are to blame for everything. Likewise, since these power nodes also control the mainstream media, one can begin to understand why it is that the pro-war message trumps the anti-war message every step of the way. >>>
How far you've fallen Scott, this is real looney tunes stuff. Blaming ambiguous organizations like the Israeli lobby and Big Oil is a one-way ticket to fringe town, population you bro. And what's with the love-affair with quotation marks?
What's interesting about this column is that Ritter manages to blame every American organization short of the YMCA for the west vs. Iran spat, but doesn't hold the Mullahocracy the least bit accountable. Instead you get some trivial rehasing of old Jewish conspiracies under the vaguely worded (but important sounding!) power nodes.
Ritter used to be a respected guy. Why he'd drag his own name through the mud by writing junior high editorials like this is beyond me. Odd.
If you can stomach it, read the whole thing. I didn't even touch his rant on how greed is built into American DNA...
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