StructuredDream

In a piece in the New York Times , Gregory Johnsen demonstrates how intellectual liberals typically justify military imperialism on behalf of their own societies.  There can be little doubt that such justifications are never acceptable when invoked by others.  The author calls attention to his position and NYT article in another blog , explaining that "the US can no longer put its momentary security interests ahead of its values in Yemen." The author has a conception of “US values” that appears profoundly disconnected from both the long-standing US government strategic priorities and our current political realities.    In the NYT’s piece, Johnson states: “The United States and its international allies will have a limited window of opportunity to get things right in Yemen.” Note the presumption that meddling in Yemen is a responsibility of the US, as if Yemen were a vassal state. The conceptualization that the US effectively owns the world does appear deeply...

Not that democrats are any better, but the naked deliberateness of this   Tea-publican deception is amazing.   The New York Times this morning carried this ad:   If you like him, (as a person? I do), but the duplicity is truly astonishing in this "poll" apparently designed to prop up the billionaire Koch brothers ' favorite governor in their class warfare schemes. As a scientist, I believe in testing theories and attempting to disprove them.   In this case, my theory that this is deceptive propaganda for economic and social warfare would be disproven if the results were generally reported as "Of people who said they liked Scott Walker, X percent said they support him", or "believe unions have become to powerful", etc. The current results of people who indicated they "like" Gov. Walker answer Question 1 as follows:   Note the defensive, passive portrayal of "efforts to reduce the power".   Who could be against that?   In addition...