Drew Phipps Wrote:CNAS (think tank sponsor of the report mentioned in the OP) looks like a Clinton-esque adoption of the PNAC strategy of Bush-era Republican advisors:

a. Make a think tank.
b. Staff it with your people.
c. Write a report.
d. Cite the report lavishly in friendly press outlets.
e. "Justify" your policies with the report.

Drew Phipps Wrote:As it happens, Kagan is a WaPo columnist. James Rubin is married to Christine Amanpour....

Drew Phipps Wrote:...so I expect CNN to cite the report soon, if it hasn't already, and his sister works at the New York Times....

Quote:You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work to life."

Lauren Johnson Wrote:I seem to remember that Scooter Libby sent Judith Miller a letter which included this somewhat enigmatic paragraph:

Quote:You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work to life."

Sickening.

The link: they are all connected like aspens.

Judy Miller is a currently member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has served her people well.

Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:

Magda Hassan Wrote:

Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:When I read the phrase "America's global leadership" I want to puke.
But this is exactly what Hillary will try to deliver to the rest of the world. Ask the Iraqis, ask the Lybians, ask the drone victims, ask all the peoples under a US-sanctioned dictator, basically ask anyone outside the elite circle of America's "friends" what they think of this kind of "leadership".

So true Carsten. I wonder if they are completely blinded to their goals or just don't give a shit what others think?

In my eyes this is a blatant propagada piece initiated by the Clinton camp and aimed against Sanders and Trump. (Compare http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-washington-post-anti-sanders-ad-218417)
What really angers me is not that Hillary fights with all covert methods available to her, but that all the premises of this piece are so onesided and distorted that it creates a completely fictional image of the true situation. Practically every sentence in it is a lie or an invalid assumption, ignoring and denigrating everybody who questions the American empire. That a text like this can masquerade as a WaPo editorial just shows the complete sellout and the true function as a propaganda outlet of the Washington Post and the nonexistent ethics of Jeff Bezos (not that we needed any confirmation of that). I do not believe for a second that Clinton or Bezos believe anything that is written in this piece, both certainly do not suffer from loss of reality. This is purely directed at people who want the cozy feeling that they are standing on the right "liberal" side, thinking they somehow do good in the world by "leading" the bad guys (rest of the world) in the right direction.
It sounds to me like IS propaganda from the opposite side, "We are the good ones and everybody else has to follow us or die."