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| ARCHIVE | ARCHIVE | ARCHIVE |
| Saturday, December 28, 2002 |
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But Derbyshire is not the first to commit honesty with regard to the relationship between oil and the rumored war on Iraq. Witness syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer's August prediction that "we will have a bonanza, a financial one, at the other end, if the war is successful".
In October, European oil executives were concerned that Washington intended to carve up Iraq for the benefit of American oil companies in the aftermath of any future war. Ari Fleischer's non-denial denial of any American interest in the disposition of Iraqi oil practically made it official.
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And then there's InstaPundit, who so liked the idea of not just one war, but multiple wars, that he approvingly bestowed the title "FIVE REASONS FOR WAR" upon this Ted Rall cartoon. Applauding the potentially lucrative side-effect, the professor helpfully explained that "it's not a bug, it's a feature".
Here's the thing: as Michael Kinsley says, "the idea that oil is a factor in official thinking about Iraq shouldn't even be controversial". It seems to me that the very pretense otherwise by pro-war officials should be a persuasive indication of their general lack of veracity, and of the fundamental dishonesty of their argument. Occasional flashes of honest commentary only serve to highlight the official dissimulation.
| Friday, December 27, 2002 |
Daniel Pipes
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American universities have turned into hotbeds of opposition, and it's time to take them back.And:
Outside stakeholders -- board members, alumni, parents of students and, in the case of state institutions, state legislators -- need to start worrying more about politics than about football.For what pre-1960s academic nirvana does Pipes long? Two of his named targets, history professors Eric Foner of Columbia University and Glenda Gilmore of Yale remember:They must take steps to re-create a politically balanced environment, as it was before the 1960s, in which sound scholarship and sound teaching can again take place.
Pipes' call for "outsiders" to police the statements of faculty conjures up memories of World War I and the McCarthy era, when critics of the government were jailed and institutions of higher learning dismissed antiwar or "subversive" professors. Historians today consider such episodes shameful anomalies in the history of civil liberties in the United States.Not worried? Not an academician, perhaps? Consider that the logic of Pipes' statement leads directly to this one:
American weblogs have turned into hotbeds of opposition, and it's time to take them back.Worry.Outside stakeholders -- ISPs, web hosting providers, bloghosts and state legislators -- need to start worrying more about politics than about sales.
They must take steps to re-create a politically balanced environment, as it was before the Internet, free from the shrillness of a radical, adversarial and alienated opposition.
| Monday, December 23, 2002 |
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Iraq's Invitation to CIA Not Newsworthy
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General Amir al-Saadi, adviser to President Saddam Hussein pulls stunt of inviting CIA weapons inspectors during Baghdad press conference on December 22,2002. |
"This is not news," explained correspondent Wolf Blitzer, "it's obviously just a stunt. The Bush administration says it's just a stunt. We don't report on stunts by a power-mad unelected leader hell-bent on starting wars of aggression." The White House has confirmed that the Iraqi invitation is just a stunt.
Blitzer noted that there is a risk that if the Iraqi proposal is accepted by the Bush administration, it could undermine the main pretext for attacking Iraq - the claim that it is harboring weapons of mass destruction. CNN has invested heavily in preparations for the war, which is expected to significantly boost viewership, but if CIA inspectors are dispatched to Iraq and fail to uncover any nuclear, biological or chemical weaponry, the scheduled military event could be postponed or even canceled. This could severely impinge on the company's bottom line.
"What if the CIA sends inspectors into Iraq and they can't find any WMD sites?" asked CNN CEO Walter Isaacson, "what excuse would we have for war then? Clearly, we can't afford such an outcome, which would hurt the credibility of both CNN and our major shareholder, the Bush administration. We have already tried and failed to sign up Rush Limbaugh to our team, and if we publish any reports that contradict the official narrative then our chances of hiring Oliver North and Ann Coulter would be significantly reduced. And that's the bottom line."
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