Michael Ledeen on Fools and Liars — His Pals
By Mona
It is important for people, even Professors, to understand how quickly things can change in Iraq….Very few people know enough about Iraq to make coherent policy pronouncements…..But even if a person was to circulate to every battalion in Iraq, by they time he finished, the situation would have changed at the battalions he visited first.This is the nature of warfare. But many members of Congress think after a five-day-junket and a few power point presentations they can make sweeping pronouncements that they understand Iraq..Which makes them fools and possibly liars.
I’m not even going to list all of this depraved creature’s co-ideologues at AEI, NRO, The Weekly Standard, right-wing blogs & etc. who have purported “to make coherent policy pronouncements” about Iraq, but will happily add updates as readers provide examples of these “fools and liars.” (I’m looking at you Eric Martin!)
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And I’d really be interested to know who these enlightened “very few” who really understand Iraq are (and what qualifies them as such for Ledeen? membership in PNAC?),for if one thing is beyond reasonable dispute, they didn’t get us in this mess, and haven’t been prosecuting it.
Comment by monkey.dave —
May 31, 2007 @ 4:15 pm
He’s got a point, you know. You could be writing another blog post about how Iraq is trapped in a multi-faceted civil war but maybe a harmonious liberal democracy has spontaneously broken out in Fallujah. And then your policy prescriptions would be out of date, and think how foolish you’d feel then.
Comment by Werner Heisenberg —
May 31, 2007 @ 7:02 pm
This is a simple derivative of my theorem
Comment by SuperMice —
May 31, 2007 @ 8:35 pm
Quoting self: “Those who lied us into this war, and lied us through this war, will continue to lie to us.”.
Comment by whitey —
May 31, 2007 @ 8:58 pm
Shorter Michael Ledeen:
“I know you are but what am I?”
Comment by Glen —
May 31, 2007 @ 10:10 pm
Why do you put periods between all your paragraphs? Just wondering.
Comment by Jon H —
May 31, 2007 @ 10:45 pm
Ledeen: “Which makes them fools and possibly liars…. But enough about myself, how are *you*? Have you lost weight?”
Comment by Eric Martin —
June 1, 2007 @ 9:26 am
Good god Mona, compiling examples of such pundits’ foolishness and duplicity would take the better part of a year - even with unlimited access to Lexis-Nexis and a staff of
trained monkeysinterns.Seriously. It’s a question of where to begin. And then, where to end.
I have to admit though, that I find something perversely fascinating about Ledeen: He is the most brazen, audacious liar of them all. He will say just about anything with a straight face. No limits.
Remember, this is a guy who still tries to maintain that he opposed the invasion of Iraq!
That takes chutzpah.
Comment by Mona —
June 1, 2007 @ 9:42 am
Which is exactly why I declined to undertake it, and looked to you to serve as my trained monkey.
Comment by Eric Martin —
June 1, 2007 @ 11:19 am
Maybe in another setting…;)
Comment by Mona —
June 1, 2007 @ 3:56 pm
It is a formatting problem. I can’t figure out why, when I preview my posts, some grafs have no space between them and it drives me nuts if they do not (I compose my text in Outlook email boxes, so maybe that is part of the prob.) So, I stick a period inbetween to create a break. I’ve tried the html tag I know to create spaces, “br”, and that hasn’t worked.
Comment by Gary Farber —
June 1, 2007 @ 10:30 pm
“I compose my text in Outlook email boxes, so maybe that is part of the prob”
Try using something that won’t code it up with formatting code, such as Notepad. Check “Word Wrap” for ease of writing while writing, and when you’re done, uncheck it. Then cut and paste it into your blogging software, and it should be clean.
Any software that won’t crap it up with formatting like Outlook (which I hope you don’t use for e-mail, unless you love viruses and worms) will do.
Comment by Glen —
June 2, 2007 @ 8:06 pm
I compose my blog posts in Word first, then paste them into Blogger. I have to use html coding for italics and links, though.