Below is what far-Left economist Paul Krugman recently wrote on the NYT. I frankly can't make head or tail of what he is driving at. Only the hate of conservatives comes through
Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued? Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
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What did Krugman think Americans should have done in response to 9/11? Shout "Allah Akhbar"? A writer here thinks Krugman is insane. Insane with hate, I would say.
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Krugman is a pathetic little man desperately seeking attention, even negative attention. His hatred of anything, or anyone, not part of the Left is so obvious that it makes anything he says completely irrelevant, as he himself is.
Krugman deserves the same kind and amount of attention as stuff you sometimes get on the bottom of your shoe. "Eww, get it off" or "Make sure you don't step in it."
Get real and drop the hypocracy - it's all about US interests and profits. The US spent millions in the past supporting financially and militarily the Afghans, Iraqis and Iranians to resist Soviet influence, and more so after the USSR invasion of Afghanistan succeeded. Not because the US and the West was so concerned that this middle-east region should enjoy western-style democracy, but that US and other western companies could profit for longer from the oil resources of the region. And so it goes on year after year - death after countless death - millions of dollars after millions of dollars (as the US economy sinks into record deficits) - inspiring speech after inspiring speech about patriotic sacrifices and ultimate victory - Talk about Pyrrhic victory - Talk about the decline & falls of empires!
Krugman? Is he someone important? As for Anonymous 3:34 "...the USSR invasion of Afghanistan succeeded.", you have an odd definition of success.
3:55 - So are you saying no invasion succeeds unless it's permanent through all time - if not, what the hell are you saying?
'Afghanistan' is the nemesis of empires and inscribed on their gravestones - the latest are the British in the 19th century, the Soviets in the 20th century and the United States in the 21st century.
Afghanistan and Iraq will go back to what they always were - a warring tribal area, and all the immense quantity of blood and treasure paid by western countries trying to control it will have been in vain (except of course the inevitable gains by war-profiteers).
Insane with hate, I would say.
True, though insane with envy would be even more accurate; envy is a fundamental characteristic of narcissism and the source of the delusional hatred.
3:34 - If that logic follows, then Vietnam was a smashing success!
@Anon 3:34,
Is there a lot of oil in Afghanistan?
There's a lot more oil in Canada and in the US than in Afghanistan, and that's not even counting shale oil which contains more energy than the Saudi Oil reserves.
If the wars had been about oil profits, those projects would have been fully developed by now as being much easier and more profitable.
Instead they are being regulated to oblivion, and as for Iraq, foreign oil co's have had exactly the same concessions there as do American co's.
The only real blood-for-oil scandal was Saddam's buying off most of the UN beforehand, not that it helped him much.
[A wee bit early to tell, but I suspect that Libya is kinda being taken over by the Euros ... well, they're trying ... mostly cuz a broke Euro establishment wants to use Libyan oil money to extend the lifespan of its sclerotic grip on power. We'll see.]
Did he really expect jubilation, dancing in the streets and fireworks to commemorate such a massive tragedy.
Of course the commemorations were muted - they are remembering thousands of deaths.
Talk about hijacking a cause - Krugman has to be the biggest hijacker in history to attempt to lump the 9/11 commemorations with everything that has happened since in 'the war on terror'.
Anon 4:09 what he is saying is that if the invaders say the invasion was not a success, then the invasion was probably not successful.
Afghanistan was actually NOT a defeat for the British.
They were initially defeated but came back and made Afghanistan a British Protectorate for many years
But many British soldiers and officers were killed on the Afghan front trying to keep the lawless tribal areas under nominal British control and to prevent expansion of the Imperial Russian empire in that direction.
As for Vietnam, unless 8:37AM is referring in some way to the French colonial occupation, Vietnam was not officially invaded by anyone. The South got outside help from the US and Australians to keep out the North, but the North eventually took over the whole country and still has it, and ironically becoming quite capitalist and westernized now. So in that sense the US spent a huge amount of blood and treasure rather fruitlessly in Vietnam, just as it will have done in Afghanistan and Iraq (talk about history repeating itself, and not learning from history!!!).
We did not go far enough after 911. We should have nuked the entire region.
Lets hope 8:08 never has his/her finger on THE button - coz he'll be the start of WWIII or Armegeddon - altho' it seems some Xtian fundies want that to happen so they can get to Heaven even sooner than they (think) might have been.
Time for the NEW YORK SLIMES to go bankrupt and for krugman to be selling pencils on 5th ave or times square
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