Mondoweiss
May 29, 2008
McClellan May Be the Everyman That Breaks the Neocon's Back
One of the pleasures of watching Scott McClellan is his sheer ordinariness. In the era of West Wing, the meritocracy, and the "overclass" (my new favorite expression, thank you Samuel Freedman), McClellan is an ordinary Joe. He's pudgy and not all that smart. He's also genuine and honest and likeable. His great achievement already is taking a truth well-known to us pointy-heads on the internet, that the war was waged not for WMD but for "ideology," and bringing it home. Paul Wolfowitz admitted as much in Vanity Fair years ago. Glenn Kessler and George Packer and Richard Clarke stated as much in their books. Walt and Mearsheimer showed us the intellectual scaffolding.
I was always amazed that Americans had tolerated that great hoodwinking. But all those guys are intellectuals writing in the end about policy. Comes now McClellan, an ordinary guy who has a noble reason for his betrayal, and we all want to hear his story. That personal tale is bringing the point home in a simple affecting way. For a good story is more compelling than any investigation (let alone any great theory; check this one out). At long last, the chickens are coming home to roost. Before long the networks will be doing features on the neoconservatives, and the president and reporters that loved them. Next stop, the Hague.
Posted at 08:31 PM in Books, Iraq, Neocons |
Comments
Phil, I wish you were right.
But the bloviating and warmongering of countless Hadleys, Kagans, Podhoretzs, Krystols, Sabans, Abelsons, Abrams, Ledeens, Feiths, Boltons, Horowitzs, Cheneys, (Wolfy and Perle have done their part for eretz yisrael), Bushes, McCains, Clintons, and other usefull idiots, don't give me any confidence that America will begin to make correct geo-political moves in the Middle East.
Wrong moves, such as destroying sovereign functioning countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Palestine, are essentially radical communist theology following in the footsteps of Cambodia's Pol Pot. Destroy in order to create a New Society.
Yesterday's communist sympathisers (Jews), are todays neoconservative warmongers (Jews).
Posted by: cogit8 | May 29, 2008 at 11:26 PM
sorry, I forgot to include Iran in the above list....
Posted by: cogit8 | May 29, 2008 at 11:37 PM
I see the MSM has not been playing up McClellan's assertion that they were "complicit enablers" in the Iraq fraud. And that is one of the book's most damning criticisms.
Posted by: Michael Blaine | May 30, 2008 at 05:55 AM
It was amusing to see the Bush loyalists rush out to attack McClellan, all armed with their identical talking points [all parroting the Party Line, like in the days of TASS and PRAVDA].
They were "sad", the book was "puzzling", it "didn't sound like Scott" and, oh by the way, he was just a low level drone who was out of the loop, anyway. And his nasty book is proof he is "disgruntled".
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BC05D90C-3A87-432B-B135-6ADBA4DFB37E.htm
Posted by: cogit8 | May 30, 2008 at 09:03 PM
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondowei...he-everyman-that-breaks-the-neocons-back.html