This is so wrong, I don’t even know where to start. I can’t even figure out if I should snark or just throw up. These are clearly the writings of someone who should be chained to a rotary leash in his own back yard and fed powerful antipsychotics.
Carville and Rove training a secret cadre of “Middle Eastern democrats” ?
OMFG.
And they’d be honing their P.R. and electoral skills.
Yeah, those’ll come in handy the minute they step off the plane at Baghdad airport, still dizzy from the steep corkscrew in … those PR skills will last until they get the first whiff of cordite and rotting bodies.
The thing that shouldn’t shock me – but does – is the complete out-of-touchedness of this all. During the fading days of ’44, the OKW had a phrase for Der Fuhrer’s mental state – where he commanded the advance of divisions on the Eastern Front that had long since been chewed to bloody shreds by the advancing Red Army: “Cloud Cuckoo Land.”
- We neoconservatives have been through a
startling few years. […] The left had driven us from the Democratic
Party, stolen the “liberal” label, and successfully affixed to us the
name “neoconservative.” - One area of neoconservative
thought that needs urgent reconsideration is the revolution in military
strategy that our neocon hero, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,
has championed. - We need to give more thought to how we
aid Middle Eastern moderates. […] [W]e should develop and fund
training programs back at home that allow Middle Eastern democrats to
come to the United States–free of charge–to hone their electoral,
organizational, and public relations skills. James Carville and Karl
Rove should be the titular heads of this program. - The
Bush administration deserves criticism for its failure to repair
America’s public diplomacy apparatus. No group other than neocons is
likely to figure out how to do that. We are, after all, a movement
whose raison d’être was combating anti-Americanism in the United
States. Who better, then, to combat it abroad? - Prepare to Bomb Iran. Make no mistake, President Bush will need to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities before leaving office.
- Recruit Joe Lieberman for 2008.Twice
in the last quarter-century we had the good fortune to see presidents
elected who were sympathetic to our understanding of the world. […]
As for vice presidential candidates, how about Condoleezza Rice or even
Joe Lieberman? Lieberman says he’s still a Democrat. But there is no
place for him in that party. Like every one of us, he is a refugee.
He’s already endured the rigors of running for the White House. In
2008, he deserves another chance .
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