ACL Live at the Moody Theater
Stop Being Blinded by Partisan Ideology
RECEIVED Thu., Feb. 16, 2006
Dear Editor,
Just read Vance McDonald's stirring diatribe against the "neo-leftist utopian Democratic Party" [“Postmarks,” Feb. 17] and I must say ... his flair for the dramatic is only matched by those that are manifested in the actions of the very Islamist extremists he wants to destroy. And before I am verbally tarred and feathered as a "coward" and branded a neo-leftist, I happen to agree with the core of Mr. McDonalds' argument. The rotten shell that envelopes that core though is that it's consistent with the administration's adherence to the script. No one argues with the fact that the terrorists struck us and we had to retaliate. I agree that we had to drive the Taliban out of Afghanistan, but that's where it should have stayed. Fact of the matter is that Saddam Hussein was bad for business. All of that nonsense with the WMD was just part of the script that was written by the neocons way before Bush took office. It's those same neoconservative hacks that have seriously damaged this country's foreign policy. Their short-term greed for spoils of war on the cheap has been grossly mismanaged. One wonders how it is that individuals that have been at the highest levels of government have such a shortsighted grasp on geopolitics. We might have rid Iraq of Saddam, but we removed a counterpoint to Iran, who the administration has made the pre-eminent power in the Persian Gulf. They have WMD and they are on the verge of unlocking the power of the ultimate WMD. All under George W.'s watch! It's time for the administration's apologists to face the truth and stop being blinded by partisan ideology.
Just read Vance McDonald's stirring diatribe against the "neo-leftist utopian Democratic Party" [“Postmarks,” Feb. 17] and I must say ... his flair for the dramatic is only matched by those that are manifested in the actions of the very Islamist extremists he wants to destroy. And before I am verbally tarred and feathered as a "coward" and branded a neo-leftist, I happen to agree with the core of Mr. McDonalds' argument. The rotten shell that envelopes that core though is that it's consistent with the administration's adherence to the script. No one argues with the fact that the terrorists struck us and we had to retaliate. I agree that we had to drive the Taliban out of Afghanistan, but that's where it should have stayed. Fact of the matter is that Saddam Hussein was bad for business. All of that nonsense with the WMD was just part of the script that was written by the neocons way before Bush took office. It's those same neoconservative hacks that have seriously damaged this country's foreign policy. Their short-term greed for spoils of war on the cheap has been grossly mismanaged. One wonders how it is that individuals that have been at the highest levels of government have such a shortsighted grasp on geopolitics. We might have rid Iraq of Saddam, but we removed a counterpoint to Iran, who the administration has made the pre-eminent power in the Persian Gulf. They have WMD and they are on the verge of unlocking the power of the ultimate WMD. All under George W.'s watch! It's time for the administration's apologists to face the truth and stop being blinded by partisan ideology.
Paul Chavera