Dan Drezner is the worst of the fresh-faces-for-a-fresh zeitgeist Foreign Policy bloggers. I believe he supported the Iraq war, and is an apologist for the Bush Administration. But he's on the wagon when it comes to the good demon alcohol of neoconservative thought. But then there's Tom Ricks, who wrote the smart Iraq book, Fiasco, and Steve Walt, blogging on the FP site. And in its press release, FP brags that Walt is the author of an international bestseller, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy? I tell you, the world is changing. Obama is being given a platform to change Middle East policy. Probably too late.
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Isn't Obama's silence on the Gaza issue evidence that he isn't even willing to distance the US from Israel?
Desperately Seeking Obama:
Obama did comment on foreign affairs when he issued a statement condemning the terrorist attacks in Mumbai and he has given several news conferences outlining his economic proposals. So "one president at a time" does NOT fly. Seems clear he has copied the
Bush peeps with Lebanon, and is hoping that by the time he officially
takes office Israel will have largely achieved its goal in Gaza–the Pals are just expendables, like the Lebanonese before them. Anyone see anything else in Obama's silence? He hasn't even copied BushCo
by declaring Israel should do its best to avoid civilian losses…
That blog is actually all Ricks, who says modestly "I am not well informed enough to comment on the weekend's Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. But the endless struggle does make me wonder about the optimists on Iraq who think we are just about finished there." and across 'not informed enough' places a link to an online copy of Milton's Samson Agonistes, thereby showing that he is just another pretentious Ivy League twat.
Obama won't change a damn thing. I wish Phil's optimism was based in reality. But optimism usually isn't.
I might add, Ricks doesn't bother to identify the particular passage in Samson Agonistes that presumably rang his little mental bells. He just links to the index page of the entire online text, as if to say, I know there's something in there that will make me feel profound again.
Analogy: ME-262. The first best fighter, but not enough industrial might to support it in time. The West copied it to produce the F-86 Sabre Jet. The East copied it to produce the Mig-15.
World economy as it now stands.
Uncle Sam& Uncle Irv v The Rest
Next?
there's some pretty evil Sukhoi jet fighters too.
Rowan, he was probably referring to the line,
"eyeless in Gaza"
from Milton's poem.
It has been mentioned a few times on blogs.
link to larvatusprodeo.net
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As you probably know, it has been suggested that Milton is a apologist for Puritanism, another dualist idea.