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| WaPo Managing Editor: "I don't think US should be the leader of the world" |
| 2005-03-14 |
| Well, well, well. Another LLL idiot who opened his mouth thinking no one would ever know... Yong Tang: In such sense, do you think America should be the leader of the world? Bennett: No, I don't think US should be the leader of the world. My job is helping my readers trying to understand what is happening now. What is happening now is very difficult to understand. The world is very complex. There are various complex forces occurring in it. I don't think you can imagine a world where one country or one group of people could lead everybody else. I can't imagine that could happen. I also think it is unhealthy to have one country as the leader of the world. People in other countries don't want to be led by foreign countries. They may want to have good relations with it or they may want to share with what is good in that country. That is also a sort of colonial question. The world has gone through colonialism and imperialism. We have seen the danger and shortcomings of those systems. If we are heading into another period of imperialism where the US thinks itself as the leader of the area and its interest should prevail over all other interests of its neighbors and others, then I think the world will be in an unhappy period. Yong Tang: How do you think of the roles American mainstream media play in American foreign policy? Bennett: We have a little bit different roles in newspapers compared with our counterparts in Europe and other countries. We don't have any political point of view that we are trying to advance. We don't represent any political parties. We are not tied to any political movement. On the news side of the paper we try not to give opinions. So I think the role the Washington Post should play is to hold the government accountable for decisions made by it. This goes to foreign policy as well. For example, the Washington Post has a correspondent bureau in Baghdad. One of the jobs of our correspondents in Baghdad is to tell our readers what the Bush administration is trying to hide. Bush says democracy is advancing in Iraq, but our correspondents say the situation there is much more complex than that. Our job is to put that in the public domain and challenge the government and hold them accountable. We do that by having independent reporting about events, by telling our readers what the actual situation is, with as much independence, fairness and accuracy as we can. RTWT - it gets better. Mike |
| Posted by:Mike Kozlowski |
| #13 We don’t have any political point of view that we are trying to advance. Except Liberalism We don’t represent any political parties. Except the Democrats We are not tied to any political movement. Except the Socialism and collectivism The record of his paper reinforces the rejoinders, not his word. This guy is so full of crap its flowin out his mouth. Such bald-faced lies on the public record. Does he really believe it? How did he manage to say that with a straight face? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-14 1:17:58 AM |
| #12 We don’t have any political point of view that we are trying to advance. Except Liberalism We don’t represent any political parties. Except the Democrats We are not tied to any political movement. Except the Socialism and collectivism The record of his paper reinforces the rejoinders, not his word. This guy is so full of crap its flowin out his mouth. Such bald-faced lies on the public record. Does he really believe it? How did he manage to say that with a straight face? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-14 1:17:58 AM |
| #11 I don’t think US should be the leader of the world. I don't think commie asslickers like you should retain their US citizenship. |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2005-03-14 12:42:11 PM |
| #10 OS - you left out Transnational Progressive. |
| Posted by: Snung Snuth2112 2005-03-14 12:17:19 PM |
| #9 This guy is about as smart as Lynndie England. He deserves the same fate. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-03-14 8:12:12 AM |
| #8 WOW! He's so full of shit I bet his eyes are brown. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-03-14 7:29:32 AM |
| #7 The Angry/Failed Left is doing its best to appear as prim and proper, quiet Betty Crocker-crats - the "Blame the USA/Dubya" rhetoric is intensifying, a sure and sure-er sign that something might happen soon, prob this summer. I hope you boyz and girlz are buying those guns and survival gear. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-03-14 6:46:33 AM |
| #6 B-a-r : Please se my remark to Sobiesky about Jimmy Carter's skull as a comment to an article about Chavez (Ven) seizure of land elsewhere on RB today... It applies to Iraq correspondents in general, and "Bozo" Bennett in particular... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-03-14 5:54:59 AM |
| #5 "How do people with this sophomoric, cartoonish misunderstanding of the world have adult jobs, much less positions helping provide information to the rest of us?" That's easy they are hired by clueless losers just like themselves. That is how this clueless culture and political asshatery gets perpetuated. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-03-14 1:21:36 AM |
| #4 We don’t have any political point of view that we are trying to advance. Except Liberalism We don’t represent any political parties. Except the Democrats We are not tied to any political movement. Except the Socialism and collectivism The record of his paper reinforces the rejoinders, not his word. This guy is so full of crap its flowin out his mouth. Such bald-faced lies on the public record. Does he really believe it? How did he manage to say that with a straight face? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-14 1:17:58 AM |
| #3 This is amazing (and of course unsurprising) stuff. Deserving of a "blogswarm". The fundamental ignorance and warped perspective is on classic display here. He's concerned "US interests" will prevail. You know, stuff that would be bad for others: free trade, human rights, democratic governance, rule of law, states not swallowing up neighbors a la 1990 Kuwait, genocide being stopped. A veritable catalog of nightmares for "others". Meanwhile, we're working overtime here trying to "hide" things in Iraq. That is, when we're not trying to find out for ourselves what's going on. Sheesh. How do people with this sophomoric, cartoonish misunderstanding of the world have adult jobs, much less positions helping provide information to the rest of us? (rhetorical question .... but it first occurred to me through direct experience about two decades ago, and my befuddlement has only grown) |
| Posted by: Verlaine in Iraq 2005-03-14 1:15:00 AM |
| #2 Bush says democracy is advancing in Iraq, but our correspondents say the situation there is much more complex than that. Uh huh. Apparently, the situation on the ground can be explained away by his correspondents, all from the comfort of a hotel room. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-14 12:31:25 AM |
| #1 "We donÕt have any political point of view that we are trying to advance." The simultaneous twang from several gazillion broken harp strings must've been deafening... |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2005-03-14 12:27:14 AM |