Prager & Kristol & Stark
Published by Mike Stark July 17th, 2006 in UncategorizedThis was pretty neat. All of talk radio has been abuzz about Howard Dean’s claim that the conflagoration in the Middle East wouldn’t be happening if there was a Democrat in the White House. Prager brought it up, asked for callers and then went to break. I called in.
When Prager came back from break, he led off with an interview with Bill Kristol. I’ve included it in the audio.
That was such a stroke of good luck for me because Kristol is the best representation of what the mainstream republican has become since George Bush took office. With Kristol, and almost every other Republican, the solution to every last niggling issue is all-out war. I can’t remember the last time Kristol and his brain-dead zombie followers weren’t suggesting we blow something up in the Middle East.
It was the perfect contrast to what Howard Dean said.
If you look back, under Carter we had the Camp David Accords. Sadat wanted to call them the Carter Accords - remember that when you hear Prager distort.
Then Reagan came along. He sold missiles and other weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of hostages that Hezbollah had taken in Lebanon. He did it over and over again. And lied about it. And withdrew from Lebanon altogether after the Marine barracks were bombed.
Then came Clinton and the Oslo negotiations. While the two sides talked, violence was relatively light. In fact, for five years violence was practically non-existent.
Then came Bush again. He’s done nothing to bring the sides together. Zero. Not a damned thing. And this is what we get.
So when Howard Dean says this shit wouldn’t be happening under a Democratic administration, he knows what he’s talking about.
And Prager, beaten again, was willfully obtuse.
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Sorry. I stuck an icepick in both ears after about five minutes of listening to Kristol.
That was really good. I thought he was going to tie you up until the commercial with that obscure debate on the Camp David Accords. That “Carter Accords” would’ve been a good card to pull at that point - annecdotal evidence beats no evidence - but thankfully you moved on and ran through the Presidents’ styles and contrasted Republicans and Democrats.
Our veto of the UN resolution calling for a ceasefire is a disgrace. June and July were ugly months with lots of Palestinian casualties and abductions on both sides. For the US to enable Israel to escalate hostilities after this is a complete failure of leadership.
And Bill Kristol is just absurd at this point - advocating war while offering no evidence that Iran or Syria orchestrated this. Democrats will at least work with what’s available. The Republicans seem to either wish the Palestinians would just give up and go away or, more recently with the neocons, to want to destroy whatever balance or institutions sustain these societies and sort it all out later with whomever comes out on top.
I wonder how many wars Kristol is personally responsible for winning in the middle east.
krisol needs to get his ass over to the M.E. and do a little of this mud and blood crawling he seems to think is our American boys duty to protect HIS homeland .
I never understood why this guy has so much sway. Not only in the media, but in policy. His thinktanks seem to be the source of a lot of Bush policy. How? How did this little pissant get so much “power”? Is he just a columnist and magazine editor?
Damn, you should have said “If Carter didn’t really bring peace to Israel/Palestine then you’ve got to get rid of the Republican myth that Reagan ended the cold war.” It’s the same logic. He was president of the time, so he did it, right? Not.