David Broder goes off the deep end

[marmar]

from AlterNet:




David Broder Wants a Disastrous War with Iran to Boost the U.S. Economy
Posted by Joshua Holland on @ 10:42 am


Even by the perverse standards set by the opinion-shapers in the editorial pages of the Washington Post, David Broder’s offering today stands out as a unique blend of moral depravity and intellectual laziness.

Broder:

I know that Democrats have fallen into a peck of trouble and may lose control of Congress. But even if they do, Obama can still storm back to win a second term in 2012. He is that much better than the competition.

(...)

But if Obama cannot spur that growth by 2012, he is unlikely to be reelected. The lingering effects of the recession that accompanied him to the White House will probably doom him.

Can Obama harness the forces that might spur new growth? This is the key question for the next two years.

Broder then offers us a choice of two avenues by which the economy can grow. The first is just sitting back and waiting for the “business cycle” to turn.

In this regard, Obama has no advantage over any other pol. Even in analyzing the tidal force correctly, he cannot control it.

What else might affect the economy? The answer is obvious, but its implications are frightening. War and peace influence the economy.

So, what’s David Broder’s prescription for saving America?

With strong Republican support in Congress for challenging Iran’s ambition to become a nuclear power, he can spend much of 2011 and 2012 orchestrating a showdown with the mullahs. This will help him politically because the opposition party will be urging him on. And as tensions rise and we accelerate preparations for war, the economy will improve.

I am not suggesting, of course, that the president incite a war to get reelected.

No, of course not. Perish the thought. You’re suggesting that the U.S. push for a deadly conflict guaranteed to destabilize the Middle East further and put U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan in grave danger in order to stimulate the economy, with the extra beneficial effect of getting Obama re-elected. What a grand plan! ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/10/31/david-broder-wants-a-disastrous-war-with-iran-to-boost-the-u-s-economy/

[JerseygirlCT]

1. Haven't we tried that war in the middle east thing? nt

[Scruffy1]

3. This sicko has been off the deep end his whole life.

But not to worry the Post and Times will sell another war

[Jackpine Radical]

2. There is a third way.

Take all the borrowed $$ that would go into the war & use it to provide jobs, universal health care, and a whole new 21st century infrastructure for America.

The bad part, of course, is that Iran wouldn't be radioactive.

The good part is that we would be healthier, fully employed, and building toward the sustainable technologies that are ultimately the only way to maintain a healthy world ecosystem.

[panader0]

4. you radical

[madmax]

9. you forgot socialist, commie, pinko dirt bag

who hates 'merica.

:hug: Jackpine ;)

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Not to mention Dirty Fucken Hippie.

:hippie:

Yo, Max.

[madmax]

20. What's happening?

:hippie: and don't bogart that damn thing.

[Jackpine Radical]

21. I dint Bogart nuffin.

Pfoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop

That was one little inhale.

[madmax]

5. Off the deep end., around the bend

and a few places I can't even mention. He's nuts! Yes, that's right David ANOTHER war. We're rich we have all that surplus money just sitting in bank.

Please, someone take away their laptops, computers, pens, and paper - make them stop writing. Better yet, make them stop thinking.

Yesterday was such a great day. The Rally - today it's back to business as usual. I'm depressed. Screw it, I'll go clean something. The toilet sounds appropriate. :banghead:

[Liberal Veteran]

6. Gosh, if we really want to fix the economy using that set of "ethics"...

....lets just have round up all the unemployed and drop an H-bomb on them. (Edit: Yes this is sarcasm for those who can't detect it)

War as an economic solution is the moral equivalent of theft and murder.

[kenny blankenship]

7. The last time western powers resorted to war to pull themselves out of economic depression was 1939

Old man Broder maybe wants to return to the days of his jugend, but let's not.

[Ikonoklast]

8. War with Iran would destroy our economy.

Can anyone say $1000 barrel oil?

Iran will not just sit there and let themselves get bombed without them retaliating with every means in their military arsenal, at everyone that might be thought an enemy.

[madinmaryland]

10. Fucking IDIOTS! We could spend $2 trillion on a Stimulus that would not

KILL anyone and create millions of new jobs, yet the murderous ReThugs want another war and create millions of new soldiers.

How goddam stupid!

:grr:

[madmax]

11. I think I need a vacation

A nice quiet sanitarium where they have nice little pills that make everything go way. :crazy:

[opihimoimoi]

12. Who is he to submit advice to the president....? what is this OPEN MIKE NIGHT???

David Broder is outta his tree w/o his Bong...

His thought violates Sun Tsu....

[PA Democrat]

14. Here is an idea for the pea-brained, war mongering Repubs:

Spending money to BUILD things is a better economic stimulus, than spending money to DESTROY things (including peoples' lives).

Let's spend money on green energy instead of trying to steal the remaining fossil fuels, under the guise of the war on "terror".

[YankeeLeft7x]

15. David Broder Needs to Retire

This guy has outlasted his "usefulness." Time for Old Mr. Broder to pack it in for good!!!

[gratuitous]

16. Okay, Private Broder, here's your helmet, here's your rifle

You go right ahead. We'll be right behind you.

Bloodthirsty fucker.

[Major Hogwash]

17. Broder dove off of the high dive with no water in the pool clear back in 1999.

When he thought that Bush had just as much intellect as Gore, and then tore Gore down repeatedly over the next year to prove it!!

Fucking joke of a reporter.

[OHdem10]

18. WaPo always bringing us tidings of war. He had better confer

with all those Conservatives(not NeoConservatives)

This country is war weary.

[Prometheus Bound]

19. Here's the underlying propaganda theme:"because Iran is the greatest threat to the world"

Pretty effective propaganda. These war criminals know what they are doing.