Do I read George Will correctly?

[No Mandate Here.]

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55690-2004Nov16.html>

Is he ACTUALLY advocating that the Senate ask Condi(scending) Rice some real questions?

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The president says it is "cultural condescension" to question "whether this country, or that people, or this group, are 'ready' for democracy." Condescending, perhaps, but is it realistic? Tony Blair says it is a "myth" that "our attachment to freedom is a product of our culture." Are there cultural prerequisites for free polities? Does Iraq have them? Do the Palestinian people, after a decade of saturation propaganda inciting terrorism and anti-Semitism? Does the United States know how to transplant those prerequisites?

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If, knowing what we now know about Iraq's weapons programs, you still think preemptive war was justified, what other nations might, by the same criteria, merit preemptive action?

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In 1991 the secretary of defense, explaining the lack of wisdom of regime change, said: "Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it. It's not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that's currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists? How much credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the United States military when it's there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the people that sign on for that government, and what happens to it once we leave?" Was Dick Cheney right?

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[nixonwasbetterthanW]

1. The DNC must've matched Conrad Black's offer

When the price is right, G.F. Will is among the most faithful whores ...

<http://www.fair.org/activism/will-disclosure.html>

... George F. Will, columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group, devoted his column on March 4, 2003 to the thoughts of press baron Conrad Black. After spending two paragraphs describing complaints about George W. Bush's preparations for the invasion of Iraq, Will wrote: "Into this welter of foolishness has waded Conrad Black, a British citizen and member of the House of Lords who is a proprietor of many newspapers, including the Telegraph of London and the Sun-Times of Chicago." Almost the entire remainder of the column is devoted to relating Black's views on U.S. foreign policy.

In the column, Will failed to mention that he has been a paid employee of Conrad Black, who named Will, along with several other mostly conservative luminaries, to the international advisory board of Black's Hollinger International. Each time he attended the board's annual meetings, the New York Times revealed (12/22/03), Will received compensation of $25,000.

Asked whether he should have revealed that the mogul whose views he was promoting had paid him substantial sums of money, Will told the Times, "My business is my business," adding, "Got it?"

[Demeter]

6. Nah! He Just Hates Wimmin in Power

He doesn't care about whether they are compentent or not.

[yardwork]

8. I wish I got paid $25,000 to attend one meeting

Oh yeah, I guess I'd have to sell my soul in return.

[Blue_Tires]

2. will's a pud

[Demit]

3. I love your name for her: Condescending Rice. Too true!

[pinkpops]

4. Amazing isn't it? I think I read one other thing he said

a long time ago that I agreed with. I think.
Otherwize, he's a pud.

[MaineYooper]

9. a stopped clock is right twice a day. n/t

[Inland]

5. Bush mau-maus those that doubt ITS ability to recreate societies

understand that humans, societies resist being remade. Today's neocons and yesterday's stalinists thought that they could bring about a new man through combinations of force and propaganda. Will is more skeptical than I, but geez louise, the Bush administration just acccuses any doubters of ITS competence to work social change with armed force of bias against muslims.

[DuaneBidoux]

7. I don't like Will but he has been very consistent on one point

He does not agree with the direction of foreign policy coming from the Bush administration. He believes the Neocon are creating a disasterous situation for the US long term. He is conservative in the older sense of the word, like Buchanan, another consistent critic of Bush foreign policy (although the asshole endorced Shrub, his magazine, the American Conservative didn't).