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October 07, 2006

Where There’s War, There’s Kissinger

So says political columnist Molly Ivins in her column today. I generally dislike hyper-partisan political columnists like Ivins and her ilk, because in the end, all they really do is slime the opposition statist party and engage in shameless boosterism for their own side. But today the headline for her column struck me as apt.

“The Old War Criminal”, says Ivins, “is back. I try not to hold grudges, but I must admit I have never lost one ounce of rancor toward Henry Kissinger, that cynical, slithery, self-absorbed pathological liar. He has all the loyalty and principle of Charles Talleyrand, whom Napoleon described as ‘a piece of dung in a silk stocking.’ "

It does seem as if every fookin' time there is a war declared, contemplated, or advised, the ugly little face of that unrepentant uber-war criminal Henry Kissinger seems to pop up. Unless of course it’s a Democratic Administration that is in power though. Then it's the ugly, decrepit face of that party’s uber-war criminal, the ex-Kennedy/Johnson era’s Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara. Eww...

It's funny too, in an ironic sort of way, that such champions of justice and peace such as Ivins et al, who all bombastically expose any and every mistake and injustice in the world (when criticizing the GOP) fall strangely silent and even defend domestic tyranny, oppression and even murder when it is perpetrated by aparatchiks of their preferred political party. Odd, isn't it? Remember Janet Reno, Molly? More people died at the hands of Federal LEO's under her tenure as AG than ever before in American history. But I digress.

And all of which reinforces my despair of ever changing anything by using the Democratic/Republican two-party dynamic that passes for politics in America. And so it seems to me that party loyalty, like jingoistic patriotism, is the last refuge of partisan pundits as well as scoundrels.

Posted by Ali Massoud at October 7, 2006 10:46 AM

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