The sleazy advocacy of a leading "liberal hawk"
(updated below)
The New York Times today details the unbelievably sleazy story of Peter Galbraith, one of the Democratic Party's leading so-called "liberal hawks" and a generally revered Wise Man of America's Foreign Policy Community. He was Ambassador to Croatia under the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s and, in March, 2009, the Obama administration (specifically, Richard Holbrooke, Galbraith's mentor) successfully pressured the U.N. to name Galbraith as the second-in-command in Afghanistan. The NYT does a good job today of adding some important details to the story, but it was actually uncovered by Norwegian investigative journalists and reported at length a month ago in pieces such as this one by Helena Cobban. In essence, this highly Serious man has corruptly concealed vast financial stakes in the very policies and positions he has spent years advocating while pretending to be an independent expert.
These are the [chicken hawks] [neolibs] [realists] [globalists] that are lining their own pockets from the blood sweat and tears of our soldiers. It was not just Neocon republicans that are to blame for our demise in the region. It was war mongers like Galbraith, balkanizers like Holbrooke, ZBIG the RUSSIAN hater, Albright the NATO lover, and many others. They call themselves Democrats. In reality they have the same agenda.
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Hopefully most Dems are less corrupt than rethugs but sometimes I wonder.
btw, I did answer your email.
I agree with you,RZ.Just one political party here, the corporate party.two wings of it so it looks like we have a choice.
Karen, ya thanks i got it. They must all be held accountable. The feet of the Obama regime have to be held to the fire. Eikenberry gave me some new hope. We shall see.
OSO; one of my long talking points is====they select, so we may elect=== Either way the powers that be [TPTB] win. Our politicians feed out of the trough of the oligarchs. Hence the oligarchs must be fed. They feed off of each other. Food for thought. LOL.
R. Zone, your rant in green italics is not supported by the article. For good reason, IMO.
VIG; Are you saying that Democrats, have not promoted the invasion of the region? Do you believe it was only Neocons, and Republicans? We have more private contractors in Afghanistan than we have military personnel. I did not know that i had to specifically only comment [rant] on the articles content.
I never thought of this, but with the decline of our manufacturing base, war is now the vehicle that drives our economy.
Enlightening post RZ.
101===Here is another one. this one is an uber ZioNeocon. one of the original PNAC boyz. Richard Perle
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/29/10679
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