Recently saw Dr. K on Charlie Rose. He was promoting his new book. From the discussion, the book, like the Rose appearance, was a mish-mash of the reasonable, and wool-over-the-eye pulling. That seems to be his SOP - discuss matters in that low monotone voice that are perfectly reasonable, When he has lulled you into a none-critical accepting mode, throw in a carefully phrased, pseudo-logical comment, that once swallowed, will force you to accept the rest of his argument. Unfortunately, Charlie didn’t call him on his obfuscations.
At one point, exhibiting that he is intellectual the father of much of the neo-con thought, he was “going on” about how it was good that we were engaging the terrorists in Iraq, rather than have them come “over here.” Do these people believe that there is a mutant terrorist gene. If a person is born with it, they’re a terrorist. Since there is a finite number of these mutants, let’s kill and incarcerate them all, and the problem is solved. Right.
Why don’t they admit the obvious? Terrorist are made. Invade an area (Jews in Palestine, Soviets in Afghanistan, Americans in Iraq), and you will produce terrorists attempting to throw out the occupiers. If America was invaded and occupied, you would produce American terrorists. This isn’t rocket science.
JMO
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