Dan Kennedy of the Boston Phoenix takes another wack at LA Times columnist Robert Scheer, one of the most dishonest writers in the American journalism. I know some of you think I worry too much about Scheer’s lies, smears and propaganda, but he is so persistent in them – and in a major national newspaper – that I make no apologies.
FUERTHER MORE: Yes, I know Fuerth comes out for taking out Saddam at some time. But that’s the essence of New Democrat foreign policy: Talk tough; do nothing serious. Simply put, I don’t believe the spin. I think Fuerth and Gore support military action in the abstract and for domestic political reasons, but would never actually carry it out. Fuerth’s job is not to find reasons for intervention, but excuses for restraint. Gore at this moment would be paralyzed by the complexity of it all, a Hamlet-like response that simply puzzles the will and loses the name of action.
The Dish 