In Search of Monsters Dowd

[elleng]

'“It is both morally right and in America’s strategic interest to enable the Libyans to fight for themselves,” Wolfowitz wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece.

You would think that a major architect of the disastrous wars and interminable occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq would have the good manners to shut up and take up horticulture. But the neo-con naif has no shame.' . .

John Quincy Adams about America: “Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy ... she is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/opinion/13dowd.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

[bemildred]

1. I must say that seeing Wolfowitz struggling with questions of moral rectitude is amusing. nt