Trick post: Who wrote this

[barb162]

This is some of the best political writing I have seen and I agree with the writer here on Mideast and US economic (corporate greed) policy. The third paragraph is probably the best sentence I have ever read on the disastrous war in Iraq. Hint: a Democrat didn't write this.

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"Both Bushes abandoned the economic patriotism that had put America and Americans first—for free-trade globalism. Result: the most massive trade deficits in U.S. history, the gutting of our industrial base, the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs, and the largest wealth transfer of all time with technology, factories, high-tech and high-skilled jobs pouring out of America into Asia."

"In foreign policy, Bush I was an internationalist out to build a “New World Order” after the Cold War. However, post-9/11, Bush II converted to a neoconservatism that calls for unilateral American intervention in the Middle East and the Islamic world, to bring down dictators and establish democracy."

"Thus, in March, 2003, Bush, in perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history, invaded an Arab nation that had not attacked us, did not want war with us, and did not threaten us—to strip it of weapons we now know it did not have."

"Result: Shia and Kurds have been liberated from Saddam, but Iran has a new ally in southern Iraq, Osama has a new base camp in the Sunni Triangle, the Arab and Islamic world have been radicalized against the United States, and copy-cat killers of Al Qaida have been targeting our remaining allies in Europe and the Middle East: Spain, Britain, Egypt and Jordan. And, lest we forget, 2055 Americans are dead and Walter Reed is filling up."


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"Bush Leaves GOP in Crisis"

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10210

There are anti-Bush Republicans out there. I certainly don't agree with everything in this article, but this man has such great writing skills and on certain issues, as the quoted material above, he's singing my song

[punpirate]

1. Without looking it up...

... it sounds like Paul Craig Roberts.

[barb162]

2. No, and I don't know him. This is a famous Republican who is very

anti Iraq war. What do you think of that one sentence on Iraq. I think it is so brilliant because it is so concise.

[TheGunslinger]

3. My guess was right. But be careful hooking up with Buchanan.

Buchanan is more of an isolationist. He's not really a "paleo-" conservative.

[barb162]

4. Yeah, he's sort of an old-line economic conservative

I know the spending on Iraq and how it is draining the Treasury drives him absolutely nuts; he's said so on TV a few times when he comments for MSNBC. But that one sentence on Iraq blows me away; I wish I could write that way. When I read that sentence, I say to myself, how can even the craziest pro-Bush republican not agree.