I see Flourney is a pro-war "liberal hawk" who like Mccain wants US troops to have remained in Iraq carrying out their initial neocon/dual loyalist plans of turning Iraq into a pro-Israel, pro-American government aka a puppet.
One correction: Prof Cole quotes a 2006 anti Iraq War quote from Hagel. He initially supported the war, a cynic might say until it turned bad. Problem is, before the war's inception everyone from Scott Ritter to Pat Buchanan had outed the WMD lies, so what was the excuse?
And yes, he's never spoken out against the Patriot Act or drone war crimes. But if he's the best Israel Lobby critic politically acceptable, gotta unenthusiastically go with him.
Anyone to the right of Kucinich in their hawkishness in the past decade, and that includes Rice, Kerry and Clinton, does not belong in the Sec. of State position.
As Glenn Greenwald on the left and Ron Paul right have held,Obama merely planned to transfer the Gitmo prisoners to another geographic locale of the Police State, not give them the speedy trial they deserved or release them for lack of evidence.
Have you complained, Professor about Obama's Administration completing the Bush era war crimes exoneration?
"The trick will be to coordinate our support with the Iranians who are willing to risk it all to make a stand against their idiot fundamentalists."
A better trick would be to get the liberal Wilsonian interventionist dilletantes and jesters out of the American political process and keep to our own affairs.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/14/mali-france-bombing-intervention-libya
Glenn Greenwald points out imperialism's attack on Libya, one that Cole supported... has had bloody consequences for Mali.
You assume there can't be scenarios in which sectors of the professional military forces sympathize with or even join the rebels?
I see Flourney is a pro-war "liberal hawk" who like Mccain wants US troops to have remained in Iraq carrying out their initial neocon/dual loyalist plans of turning Iraq into a pro-Israel, pro-American government aka a puppet.
One correction: Prof Cole quotes a 2006 anti Iraq War quote from Hagel. He initially supported the war, a cynic might say until it turned bad. Problem is, before the war's inception everyone from Scott Ritter to Pat Buchanan had outed the WMD lies, so what was the excuse?
And yes, he's never spoken out against the Patriot Act or drone war crimes. But if he's the best Israel Lobby critic politically acceptable, gotta unenthusiastically go with him.
Anyone to the right of Kucinich in their hawkishness in the past decade, and that includes Rice, Kerry and Clinton, does not belong in the Sec. of State position.
http://news.yahoo.com/ron-paul-joins-dennis-kucinich-demand-obama-drone-192800504.html
As Glenn Greenwald on the left and Ron Paul right have held,Obama merely planned to transfer the Gitmo prisoners to another geographic locale of the Police State, not give them the speedy trial they deserved or release them for lack of evidence.
Have you complained, Professor about Obama's Administration completing the Bush era war crimes exoneration?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/obama-justice-department-immunity-bush-cia-torturer
Shea Brown
"The trick will be to coordinate our support with the Iranians who are willing to risk it all to make a stand against their idiot fundamentalists."
A better trick would be to get the liberal Wilsonian interventionist dilletantes and jesters out of the American political process and keep to our own affairs.