(np) good article for today

[Mark Kohut]

What the Interceptor guy wrote is ridiculous; the way so many feelingful,
idealistic progressives go into fantasyland, into
being mirrors of Right Wing crazies. Conspiracy explanations beyond reality
all the time.

Knowing a little history--looking it up-- and refusing to be so stupid will
lead one to understand that what Rumsfeld was talking about
was bad enough just as it was: wanting to gather all the info he could to
justify--lead to---the conclusion that the US had to attack Iraq
now and take out Saddam Hussein.

Rumsfeld had not the power to even be Ahab, if one wants to work that
metaphor; he was Stubb if anyone. Bush would be Ahab if he hadn't
let Cheney be him.



On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 4:04 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> Rumsfeld as Ahab?
> > The “it,” then, that Rumsfeld wanted to destroy on 9/11 was almost
> > certainly every frustration he felt at the rest of humanity.
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