NoPod's Got a Book Out
Published by BG on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 10:07 AM.So neocon dinosaur Norman Podhoretz has a book coming out, doubtlessly full of mea culpas for all the wrongheaded advice his group of imperialistic warmongering Republicans have wrought on America.
Oh, so it's not an apology then? Then what's it about? Well, if it's written by a Republican it's either about Democrats or brown people, and thanks to his neocon lineage I think we can narrow down precisely which brown people Norman wants to talk about.
Power Line: A word from Norman Podhoretz
Except, you know, for the part where the Nazis and the Commies had huge well-equipped armies against which we could position our huge well-equipped army to see who might blink first. I'm not sure a couple thousand camel-backed kamikaze pilots really pose the same existential threat, but if you're scared enough you might go along with NoPod for the ride.
That last part about making the Middle East "safe for democracy" really gets me giggling. If this were true, the US would be doing everything possible to support Maliki, as opposed to the current perceived PR push to install Allawi. You know, because Maliki was who all those purple fingers was responsible for electing. Plus, there's that tightrope that neocons and other ChristoHebrewislamoalarmists need to walk between demonizing all the brown people (Caliphate! Taliban! Burkas! Footbaths in American Universities is the first step to America under Sharia law!) they can smear in one fell swoop alongside the (at least nominal) theory that we need to allow these people to choose their own leaders and sow the seeds of democracy.
If that happens, every country gets their own George Bush, Israel is safe, America defeats the terrists, the whole of the Middle East finds Jesus, and we all lock arms on Christmas Eve and sing a global chorus of "O Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen."
And we all get ponies.
By the way, Podhoretz is now advising Rudy Giuliani. The more you know...
Oh, so it's not an apology then? Then what's it about? Well, if it's written by a Republican it's either about Democrats or brown people, and thanks to his neocon lineage I think we can narrow down precisely which brown people Norman wants to talk about.
Power Line: A word from Norman Podhoretz
For one thing, [the book] is -- at least so far as I know -- the first serious attempt to set 9/11 itself, the campaigns that have followed it in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the war of ideas it has provoked at home, into the context of the role the United States has played in the world since 1941. Seen in this light, the struggle against the forces of Islamofascism into which 9/11 plunged us reveals itself as the direct successor to the wars against the totalitarian challenges to our civilization posed by Nazism in World War II and Communism in World War III (as the cold war becomes in this scheme of things).
Except, you know, for the part where the Nazis and the Commies had huge well-equipped armies against which we could position our huge well-equipped army to see who might blink first. I'm not sure a couple thousand camel-backed kamikaze pilots really pose the same existential threat, but if you're scared enough you might go along with NoPod for the ride.
Secondly, against critics both on the Left and the Right, World War IV offers what is probably the most full-throated statement yet published of the case for the Bush Doctrine, whose effort to make the Middle East safe for America by making it safe for democracy represents the only viable strategy for fighting and winning World War IV.
That last part about making the Middle East "safe for democracy" really gets me giggling. If this were true, the US would be doing everything possible to support Maliki, as opposed to the current perceived PR push to install Allawi. You know, because Maliki was who all those purple fingers was responsible for electing. Plus, there's that tightrope that neocons and other ChristoHebrewislamoalarmists need to walk between demonizing all the brown people (Caliphate! Taliban! Burkas! Footbaths in American Universities is the first step to America under Sharia law!) they can smear in one fell swoop alongside the (at least nominal) theory that we need to allow these people to choose their own leaders and sow the seeds of democracy.
If that happens, every country gets their own George Bush, Israel is safe, America defeats the terrists, the whole of the Middle East finds Jesus, and we all lock arms on Christmas Eve and sing a global chorus of "O Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen."
And we all get ponies.
By the way, Podhoretz is now advising Rudy Giuliani. The more you know...
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