Bush's Iraq Policy Vindicated By Obama Adviser. "We Are Responsible For Imposing Peace."

Interesting.

The caption identifying her, Journalist, Lawyer, Activist seems to be an oxymoron.A journalist is an observer, a reporter, not an activist. Of course that presupposes that the identifications mean something.Another interesting point.

This interview was done in 2002. Before the Iraq invasion. In it she states that we have a responsibility as a “Liberal Democracy” to impose a “peace” on an unwilling populace. She used the example of not allowing in “Palestine” what had happened in Rwanda. Of course, if Israel actually was conducting “genocide” it would seem to be a very slow one. And why would we have less responsibility toward the Iraqi’s than we have for the Palestinians? Seems kind of out of whack. Imposing a settlement on Israelis and Palestinians but ignoring Saddam’s depredations?

She noted that the criticism would be tremendous but that it was something that needed to be done. Change “Palestine” to “Iraq” and see how it reads then. Not much difference is there?

So does Powers really believe that the only liberal democracy in the Middle East is worse than Ba’athist Iraq?

I think that ordering the American military to stand between Israel and the Palestinians would severely challenge the leftist vision of the military as a mindless bunch of automatons. There would be a LOT of resistance to getting between them. It would be Beirut 1983 on steroids.

Only someone that is an “intellectual” could come up with something as stupid as this. Especially in light of the history.

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