‘Three Amigos’ Eager for More War

[marmar]

from Consortium News:



‘Three Amigos’ Eager for More War
March 20, 2012

The “three amigos” – John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham – are the Senate’s top war hawks, widely admired by the Washington Post’s editors and other neocon voices. But the senators also were cheerleaders for the Iraq disaster and other dubious exploits, ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar recalls.

By Paul R. Pillar


The tendentious and careless use of historical comparisons and analogies has long contributed to some of the biggest foreign-policy follies, such as the Vietnam War. Seeing a reincarnated Hitler in a two-bit dictator or a reenacted Munich in a decision to avoid a war has perhaps been the most frequent such misuse of history.

Now three U.S. senators, as described in a sympathetic puff piece by Jackson Diehl, are reaching into more recent history to argue that getting the United States involved in more wars is a good thing and that they themselves have been both courageous and insightful in taking the lead to see that this happens.

The senators — Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and John McCain of Arizona — whom their staffers affectionately refer to as the “three amigos,” are most immediately interested in getting the United States involved in the civil war in Syria.

Not far behind that, they also are itching to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, with Graham and Lieberman being lead sponsors of a Senate resolution aimed at boxing the U.S. president into doing exactly that. The amigos describe themselves as repeatedly having been on the right side of recent history by pushing for more military action in situations such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Libya and the “surge” in Iraq. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2012/03/20/three-amigos-eager-for-more-war/

[DURHAM D]

1. When I saw the "Three Amigos"

I thought you were talking about this -


http://www.barewalls.com/pv-554963_Three-Amigos.html

[Bucky]

3. Chevy Chase is Lieberman, Martin Short is Lindsay Graham, & John McCain is

annoying.

[leveymg]

2. A lot of what we blame the CIA for is just bad policy and schemes of the 3 Stooges

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I really wish Pavitt, Pillar and Maclaughlin would just come out and expose those 3 treasonous crooks as the foreign agents they really are and as the actual US authors of the WMD scams.