I’m not sure what Stephen ‘Smokey’ Hayes over at Murdoch’s neocon comic ‘The Weekly Standard’ has been puffing on this time but it seems to be either hallucinatory or, more likely, just a little something that induces delusions.
In his latest piece he seems to think that Cheney, despite being ‘unpopular’ (try ‘despised’) is winning the debate on where US national security policy should be going. Smokey just loves Cheneyspeak and is keen to quote his most disgusting hate and arrogance utterings:
“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.”
al Qaeda terrorists? What al Qaeda terrorists? The vast majority the US has locked up down Guantanamo way are innocent of any crime; but, hey, why would Cheney, Smokey and all their warmongering mates let a little thing like ‘innocence’ get in the way of all the fun they have waterboarding them?
Then there’s this piece of arrogance that Smokey quotes:
“The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy.”
Cheney, Smokey and the rest of the neocon gang at ga-ga land couldn’t care less if their so-called policies ‘generated controversy’ or not; they’d just go right ahead and do it anyway.
Cheney’s not ‘winning the debate’; rather, Obama is losing it to him. The vast majority of Americans detest Cheney and detest the notion of torture, recognising that it flies in the face of all that America is supposed to be and what most Americans believe in.
The neocon loon Smokey Hayes might like to think Cheney’s winning the debate but the reality is the people of America have already heard the debate and made their choice at the last Presidential election. Cheney’s ilk lost the debate and lost the election. The fact that Obama’s going back on the mandate the American people gave him has nothing to do with the criminal Cheney ‘winning the debate’.
But don’t tell Smokey; he’ll wake up to reality just as soon as whatever he’s been puffing on wears off.
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Stephen ‘Smokey’ Hayes: "The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected."
ReplyDeleteThat's a clear demonstration of the Strict Father mentality.
Darkside Dick, his sychophant 'Smokey', and their ilk, don't understand that the 'respect' needed for security (i.e. secure relationships) is actually a form of 'love' -- agapē, which is altruistic and unconditional.
Respect is certainly not what these nasty-cons mistake it for -- cowering fearfulness of the Strict Father.