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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (53482)7/8/2004 9:11:19 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793772
 
when the Jewish names get picked out over the more prominent non-Jews like Cheney and Rumsfeld

<<Hollings: Led by Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Charles Krauthammer, for years there has been a domino school of thought that the way to guarantee Israel’s security is to spread democracy in the area.>>

I didn't realize that Cheney and Rumsfeld hung with that crowd way back then and were party to the development of that domino approach to peace in the ME. Somehow it's hard to imagine Rumsfeld as an intellectual at all and I would have thought that Cheney would have been too busy at the time with his oil business to have sat around the coffee shop with the wonks noodling political theories. I had the impression that Cheney and Rumsfeld came to buy into the brain trust's domino theory much later, sometime between 9/11 and the Iraq war. If so, it would have been inappropriate for Hollings to credit Cheney and Rumsfeld with the idea along with the originators.

It's not ideologically consistent. But who cares?

No, it's not logically consistent. Let's see. How shall we deal with that bit of cognitive dissonance? Well, we can discount it as improbable. Or we can judge "the guys spreading it" as stupid or evil. I'll take the former.
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