Comments on: Troubling Nonsense Coming Out of CNAS

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:15:37 +0000

Only loooooooooooong after it was clear what was happening. I had truly put him under ‘reformed neocon’, except that he’s now taking the line that we need to stay in Iraq, because [whatever reason]. At this point he gets reclassified as somebody trying to manage a failure; some ‘modified limited hangout’ is required.

Just look at that frikkin’ article in this post. He’s laying the groundwork for escalating the next war. Pure and simple. Hyping Venezuala as a threat to the US is not something an honest man does.

By: Robert Farley

Robert Farley — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:43:48 +0000

Odd that a neocon would claim that invading Iraq was the worst foreign policy mistake the United States has ever committed…

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:26:32 +0000

Seconding larryb33, and adding:

Ricks if a f*cking neocon; any truth that he tells is incidental.

FP magazine and blog should be shut down; they aren’t 100% bad, but in the end they are no more than variation 137 of right-wing propaganda.

Think of their recent writings as trying to manage down their record in Iraq, while see what new wars they can pour gasoline on.

By: tequila

tequila — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:32:19 +0000

Sorry, CANNOT comprehend.

By: tequila

tequila — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:29:38 +0000

It’s interesting that conservative foreign policy commentators still apparently comprehend a world where the principal adversaries of the U.S. are not nation-states.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:31:17 +0000

I believe Ollie North and Elliot Abrams are available. They did such a nice job last time around.

By: larryb33

larryb33 — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:46:41 +0000

But, don’t you understand? Columbia has a highly professional US trained military! Therefore, they are not a narco state. They are one big US foreign policy success.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:38:57 +0000

So, Venezuela is the "narco-state", while its neighbor, Colombia, produces most of the drugs of the hemisphere, is riven by an unending civil war by narco-guerrillas and narco-paramilitaries with and against Colombia's military, and 1/3 of the Colombian Congress is under arrest, in prison, or under investigation for collaborating with narco-paramilitaries, Venezuelan officials regularly bust Colombian narco-traffickers and narco-paramilitaries operating in its territories without anyone in Colombia claiming Venezuelan brigands are doing the same, and STILL no one has presented any decent evidence of Venezuelan support for Colombian narco-guerrillas. Oh. Okay. Given such basic realities, of course Venezuela is the narco-state and Colombia is just the good, hard-working Southern neighbor receiving tons of U.S. aid and trying its best.

By: George

George — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:06:16 +0000

Whats wrong with denying the U.S access to South America? there have been millions of deaths, disappearances and a general climate of fear caused by the U.S support of latin american dictators and right-wing terror groups. In what sense are drug cartels any worse for South America than U.S foreign policy?