I read today that the Project for a New American Century is closing up shop.
Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and many of the characters portrayed in the Rumsfeld Invaders video game shared letterhead back when they were powerless critics of Clinton's humanitarian focused foreign policy in the late 90's. Now that they have taken power and shot their load (of bombs...what?) in Iraq, and the neo-cons' power is on the decline, the Project for a New American Centuryis coming to an end. Apparently the staff wonk guys went upstairs to the American Enterprise Institute, where they will scheming otherways to initiate the downfalls of civilizations as described in Jared Diamond's Collapse.
I guess the rest of the Century belongs to Europe, China, and India.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Cut and Run, or Blood and Spin?
The Repubs are framing the debate on Iraq as either "cut and run" or "stay the course."
The Dems, like deer in headlights, are paralyzed, and are losing the public relations war.
Here's my advice for framing, you helpless Dems:
Bush's strategy is "Blood and spin."
Your strategy should be "Bring the troops home safely."
Your strategy invokes the hearth and love and nurturance of the family- moral politics.
Bush's strategy (or lack thereof) is to try to downplay the bloody war by spinning the media.
You need to point that out. The spin also refers to the cover-ups as the reasons for war kept changing. Eventually "blood and spin" can be changed to "indictment and imprisonment" as these guys start getting thrown in jail for Scooter Libbying, Tom Delaying, and Abramoffing with the Constitution in pursuing this illegal war.
The Dems, like deer in headlights, are paralyzed, and are losing the public relations war.
Here's my advice for framing, you helpless Dems:
Bush's strategy is "Blood and spin."
Your strategy should be "Bring the troops home safely."
Your strategy invokes the hearth and love and nurturance of the family- moral politics.
Bush's strategy (or lack thereof) is to try to downplay the bloody war by spinning the media.
You need to point that out. The spin also refers to the cover-ups as the reasons for war kept changing. Eventually "blood and spin" can be changed to "indictment and imprisonment" as these guys start getting thrown in jail for Scooter Libbying, Tom Delaying, and Abramoffing with the Constitution in pursuing this illegal war.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Free Rein=Fixing, Mobilization, Redirection, Overriding, and Orchestration
Here are some words from a peak oil dude, Richard Heinberg.
I'm posting it because I thought it was RumsfeldInvader-rrific (how ya like that adjective?), especially the stuff they were allowed to do in the free rein (reign?), whoa.
"The current administration came into office to...achieve and maintain virtually complete global hegemony and...unchallenged control of the world’s oil and gas flows. Tactics reserved to that endincluded pre-emptive war and “regime change” anywhere necessary. The U.S.corporate/banking/military elite gave the neocon-dominated executive group virtually free rein to pursue these goals. Given that group’s lack of a robust popular constituency, this entailed the fixing of elections, the mobilization of the media, the redirection of immense amounts of government revenue, the overriding of the Constitution as well as international laws and treaties, and the orchestration of a spectacular terrorist attack. The Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld crew had its chance and, by near-universal opinion, achieved colossal failure on all counts. This failure was in fact predicted by many including the millions who marched in streets to try to avert the Iraq invasion. But the current tragicomedy of the neocons’ fall from grace can offer little satisfaction to anyone, in that it implies extraordinary perils to both the nation and the world."
That part is a bummer, but wait, Heinberg didn't leave us hangin. Here's the silver lining:
"Over the past few months the consensus of the traditional power elites has shifted dramatically: they have evidently (judging by their statements and by the attitude of the mainstream media) concluded that the neocon cabal must go. Washington prosecutors, backed by the establishment’s old-guard foreign policy “realists” inside and outside of government, are preparing revelations of scandals and the handing down of still more indictments."
OK, any day now. Feel free to scandalize away. You got Scooter and DeLay. But that Rummy dude has a thick skin. And Cheney, well, he shoots his friends in the face on a daily basis. You're gonna need the scandal of the century, like maybe one of the things he did during the free rein that you mentioned above. And some gutsy Congresspeople to push it, and a media more gutsy than the one Stephen Colbert skewered, oh, and 5 votes on the Supreme Court would be nice too. And while we're at it, I'll take an extra scoop of mint chip. Mmmm..
I'm posting it because I thought it was RumsfeldInvader-rrific (how ya like that adjective?), especially the stuff they were allowed to do in the free rein (reign?), whoa.
"The current administration came into office to...achieve and maintain virtually complete global hegemony and...unchallenged control of the world’s oil and gas flows. Tactics reserved to that endincluded pre-emptive war and “regime change” anywhere necessary. The U.S.corporate/banking/military elite gave the neocon-dominated executive group virtually free rein to pursue these goals. Given that group’s lack of a robust popular constituency, this entailed the fixing of elections, the mobilization of the media, the redirection of immense amounts of government revenue, the overriding of the Constitution as well as international laws and treaties, and the orchestration of a spectacular terrorist attack. The Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld crew had its chance and, by near-universal opinion, achieved colossal failure on all counts. This failure was in fact predicted by many including the millions who marched in streets to try to avert the Iraq invasion. But the current tragicomedy of the neocons’ fall from grace can offer little satisfaction to anyone, in that it implies extraordinary perils to both the nation and the world."
That part is a bummer, but wait, Heinberg didn't leave us hangin. Here's the silver lining:
"Over the past few months the consensus of the traditional power elites has shifted dramatically: they have evidently (judging by their statements and by the attitude of the mainstream media) concluded that the neocon cabal must go. Washington prosecutors, backed by the establishment’s old-guard foreign policy “realists” inside and outside of government, are preparing revelations of scandals and the handing down of still more indictments."
OK, any day now. Feel free to scandalize away. You got Scooter and DeLay. But that Rummy dude has a thick skin. And Cheney, well, he shoots his friends in the face on a daily basis. You're gonna need the scandal of the century, like maybe one of the things he did during the free rein that you mentioned above. And some gutsy Congresspeople to push it, and a media more gutsy than the one Stephen Colbert skewered, oh, and 5 votes on the Supreme Court would be nice too. And while we're at it, I'll take an extra scoop of mint chip. Mmmm..
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