War-Monger vs. The Porn King: Is Bill Kristol Respectable?

[babylonsister]

War-Monger vs. The Porn King: Is Bill Kristol Respectable?
by Paul Campos

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All this came to mind last week when I glimpsed Bill Kristol’s smooth and amiable face on the television, where it appears so often. Kristol - editor of The Weekly Standard, Fox News contributor, co-founder of the key neo-conservative group the Project For the New American Century, and current visiting professor at Harvard - is the very definition of a well-respected man about town, doing the best things so conservatively.

But how respectable is Kristol, really? Anyone who pays the least attention to him soon discovers that the ruling passion of Kristol’s life is to involve the United States in as many wars as possible, with as many enemies as he can find or create.

In short, Kristol thinks about war in much the same way the narrator of Lolita thought about 12-year-old girls: with a constant, obsessive, perverse longing.

I choose this analogy with some care. An overwhelming lust for violence seems to be the common vice that links together Kristol, the various Kaplans (Lawrence, Fred, Robert), and other leaders of the contemporary neo-conservative movement.

All these men appear to genuinely love the idea of war for its own sake. The thought of their countrymen - not they themselves of course, as not one of them has ever come within a thousand miles of a live bullet - inflicting the horrific violence of modern warfare on various hapless foreigners is something that clearly excites these gentlemen quite a bit.

And that, when you think about it, is rather disturbing.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/24/4083/

[BOSSHOG]

1. He is one vile human being

HEY DARLING, YOU DO KNOW THERE IS AN APPRECIATION THREAD THIS AFTERNOON FOR YOU. AND VERY WELL DESERVED.

[shain from kane]

2. "The thought of their countrymen..."? Under divided loyalty.

It is politically incorrect and anti-semitic to link neoconservatives as supporting the war for the benefit of Israelis, their chosen countrymen. So, I won't mention it. But their countrymen are not fighting.