Propaganda and the moustache of neoconservatism

[Cocoa]

I thought the MON was Bolton, but Sirota says it's Tom Friedman.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_si_060104_propaganda__26_the_mou.htm

The New York Times' Tom Friedman is regularly lampooned as the "Moustache of Understanding" for his arrogance and know-it-all posturing, but that's really a misnomer. Friedman in his column today shows once and for all that he is really the "Moustache of Neoconservatism" - despite being regularly labeled as some sort of pseudo-intellectual progressive.

Today, the Moustache of Neoconservatism endorses a book by Johns Hopkins University foreign affairs specialist Michael Mandelbaum, which says "The greatest threat to America's role in the world today is not China. It's Medicare." Friedman then advocates for gutting Social Security and Medicare in order to fund the military engagements necessary to secure the world's petroleum reserves to satiate the U.S.'s out of control oil consumption - consumption that is increasing because the oil industry has bought off our corrupt government, and coerced it into having no real energy policy at all.

But that's not the worst, most neoconservative part of the piece. You see, the defining characteristic of today's neoconservative movement isn't the fact that its a bunch of chickenhawks who refused to serve in the military but who advocate sending young Americans to die in their ill-conceived wars. And it's not their desire to gut all of the programs Americans overwhelmingly support in order to have the resources to push foreign policies most Americans oppose. It is their total and complete lack of understanding of and appreciation for how the rest of the world views America these days.

That is epitomized by Friedman today, as he claims the world "knows that the U.S. is not a predatory power, so they are not afraid of the order it provides. They like it because this global order is helpful to every country in the world."

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[Justitia]

1. He's for sacrificing old people for Halliburton profits - your grandma 1st

buddy.

This idiot's true colors always come thru in High Definition.

I love my Grandmom very much, I think I'll keep her, screw Halliburton.