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2004-03-16 Home Front: WoT

Washington Post: "the next U.S. administration . . . may have no alternative to unilateralism"

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Posted by Mike 2004-03-16 12:07:53 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This Post is getting with the program.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-16 12:21:06 PM|| 2004-3-16 12:21:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 actually the WaPo has been with the program since 9/11.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-16 12:25:48 PM|| 2004-3-16 12:25:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 LH - you are just too kind. This is the first WaPo article I've read in months that gets it - without a shitload of waffling and/or backhanded bullshit. It has gotten so bad that I had quit looking at WaPo as a posting source. 8-[

Posted by .com 2004-3-16 12:32:45 PM|| 2004-3-16 12:32:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 i guess our perspectives are different .com. A Wapo Editiorial that says we are right to be in Iraq, but snips at Bush for something or other, is still "with the program in my book" half the time the snips are right.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-16 12:41:44 PM|| 2004-3-16 12:41:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Prolly true that it's a matter of how it's described: half full / half empty. I keep seeing enough of the sneering stuff that I can't help but wonder if they're worried they'll lose their Press Credentials...

The Jason (Jayson?) Blair interviews I'm seeing paint one hell of an interesting picture of the Salzburger / Raines / Boyd cabal at the NYT. I realize he's a serial liar and promoting a book, but there are alternative sources saying much the same...

I've just reached the end of my rope, I guess, regards the overt bias, enmity with the current admin, and the incredible disdain, condescension, and disrespect for the public shown by establishment press. Sigh. Sorry - no offense intended. :-)

Posted by .com 2004-3-16 12:59:05 PM|| 2004-3-16 12:59:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I have noticed the Post's increasingly intelligent slant for some time. They represent the AMERICAN liberal position whereas the NY Times, in spite of being at ground zero, has become the voice of the Transnational Progressives. I'll still keep my subscription to the WSJ but it is good to see the WaPo get out of lockstep with the NYT

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-3-16 1:05:55 PM|| 2004-3-16 1:05:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Wow. Adults at WaPo -- whoda thunk?

Posted by someone 2004-3-16 1:52:46 PM|| 2004-3-16 1:52:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I actually registered at the Wapo to read the article.

Hmmm...I can only guess that this reporter will soon be fired.

Posted by B 2004-3-16 2:26:05 PM|| 2004-3-16 2:26:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I just posted this in "The Beat Goes On" thread. Any takers on the chances of Spain doing this?:

I had a thought for Zapatero (wasn't he the youngest Marx Brother?) -- since you are so convinced that fighting in Iraq is not part of the WoT and want to withdraw Spanish troops from Iraq, and since you have promised to fight the WoT strenuously (especially against al Qaeda), why don't the 1300 troops you are withdrawing from Iraq get sent immediately to the Afghanistan/Pakistan border to help the US and Pakistan nail bin Laden, Zawahiri and Mullah Omar? That would reassure a lot of Americans and Brits and Poles and Aussies (who are doing the heavy lifting in the WoT) that you Spaniards aren't pussies after all, you just wanted to refocus your efforts.*

* It should go without saying that I believe those in the Spanish military to be anything but pussies. It's just the incoming Socialist government and the 43+% of the population that just bent over for al Qaeda and didn't even ask to be taken to dinner first.

Posted by Tibor 2004-3-16 2:35:08 PM|| 2004-3-16 2:35:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Nope, .com, I'm with LH on this one: I read WaPo online regularly and it has gotten the message from about 9/12 on. They're still committed to our Zeropean allies, but they do seem to understand that we're in a war and not in a police investigation.

It'll be interesting to see who they endorse in the fall. I wouldn't rule out GWB.

Posted by Steve White 2004-3-16 2:56:38 PM|| 2004-3-16 2:56:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "Hmmm...I can only guess that this reporter will soon be fired"

except its an editorial.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-16 2:56:44 PM|| 2004-3-16 2:56:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Tibor, no. Zapatero has announced he will withdraw Spanish support in Afghanistan as well as Iraq - NATO nothwithstanding.

Zapatero will also join Chirac and Schroeder in pushing the EU consitution and probably defense force as well.

Posted by rkb 2004-3-16 5:46:46 PM|| 2004-3-16 5:46:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Tibor, no. Zapatero has announced he will withdraw Spanish support in Afghanistan as well as Iraq - NATO nothwithstanding.

Zapatero will also join Chirac and Schroeder in pushing the EU consitution and probably defense force as well.

Posted by rkb 2004-3-16 5:47:54 PM|| 2004-3-16 5:47:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Well, that's 1300 less we have to send to the Olympics. Maybe all those who pull out should be sent to the Olympics.

Maybe Europe should handle that as a test case?

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-3-16 5:57:04 PM|| 2004-3-16 5:57:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Well, that's 1300 less we have to send to the Olympics

You must be a troll. It is a relgionus duty for wars to stop during the Olympic Games. I mean of course Imperial Wars... it's still Okay to kill Yids.

Aris yawl upped your creamtory capacity yet?
(I like to b early on my critics.)

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-16 6:09:39 PM|| 2004-3-16 6:09:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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