Susie Kneedler writes:
And David Ignatius [moderator of Peres/Erdogan debate at Davos] SUPPORTED the attack on Iraq by parroting Bush-Co, so he is not a fair arbiter:
"Get Ready for the American Ninjas [what a barbarous headline, SK]
Feb 25, 2003
The Iraq war is just and defensible: Taking arms to depose a dictator
who twice has attacked neighboring countries, tortures his own people
and lies to the United Nations is precisely what a responsible
international community should do. But the administration's efforts to
rally support for war have been dangerously inept, and [Donald
Rumsfeld] has been a principal culprit. The administration's mistakes
have now produced so much opposition that the United States will face
serious political problems in the future, no matter how quick or
decisive the victory in Iraq.
who twice has attacked neighboring countries, tortures his own people
and lies to the United Nations is precisely what a responsible
international community should do. But the administration's efforts to
rally support for war have been dangerously inept, and [Donald
Rumsfeld] has been a principal culprit. The administration's mistakes
have now produced so much opposition that the United States will face
serious political problems in the future, no matter how quick or
decisive the victory in Iraq.
Ah, the "impartial" American moderator.
Clicked the link.
Then I stopped, and re-read the title.
Again.
And again.
Then I literally LOL'ed :-)
Who exactly are the organizers of such events for the Davos meetings? Could they truly find no one better suited to moderate such a forum than David Ignatius?! A man who (fer crissakes!) thought it more important to get the attendees to dinner?
Ignatius also came out of Washington Monthly, which is…not exactly a CIA front, but pretty embedded in the US intelligence community. Think about that next time you see WM alum Jon Alter on MSNBC talking about Gitmo or torture prosecutions.