{"id":1049,"date":"2006-11-06T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T05:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/06\/cloud-cuckoo-land-and-the-carvillerove-brigade\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T05:40:09","slug":"cloud-cuckoo-land-and-the-carvillerove-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/cloud-cuckoo-land-and-the-carvillerove-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Cuckoo Land and the Carville\/Rove Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uggabugga.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/neocons-are-combatting-anti.html\">This is so wrong,<\/a> I don&#8217;t even know where to start.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t even figure out if I should snark or just throw up.&nbsp; These are clearly the writings of someone who should be chained to a rotary leash in his own back yard and fed powerful antipsychotics. <\/p>\n<p>Carville and Rove training a secret cadre of &#8220;Middle Eastern democrats&#8221; ? <\/p>\n<p>OMFG. <\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;d be honing their P.R. and electoral skills.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, those&#8217;ll come in handy the minute they step off the plane at Baghdad airport, still dizzy from the steep corkscrew in &#8230; those PR skills will last until they get the first whiff of cordite and rotting bodies.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The thing that shouldn&#8217;t shock me &#8211; but does &#8211; is the complete out-of-touchedness of this all.&nbsp; During the fading days of &#8217;44, the OKW had a phrase for Der Fuhrer&#8217;s mental state &#8211; where he commanded the advance of divisions on the Eastern Front that had long since been chewed to bloody shreds by the advancing Red Army: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cloud_cuckoo_land\">&#8220;Cloud Cuckoo Land.&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/publications\/filter.all,pubID.25086\/pub_detail.asp\">Viz: <\/a><\/p>\n<ul><font color=\"maroon\"><\/p>\n<li>We neoconservatives have been through a<br \/>\nstartling few years. [&#8230;] The left had driven us from the Democratic<br \/>\nParty, stolen the &#8220;liberal&#8221; label, and successfully affixed to us the<br \/>\nname &#8220;neoconservative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>One area of neoconservative<br \/>\nthought that needs urgent reconsideration is the revolution in military<br \/>\nstrategy that our neocon hero, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,<br \/>\nhas championed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>We need to give more thought to how we<br \/>\naid Middle Eastern moderates. [&#8230;] [W]e should develop and fund<br \/>\ntraining programs back at home that allow Middle Eastern democrats to<br \/>\ncome to the United States&#8211;free of charge&#8211;to hone their electoral,<br \/>\norganizational, and public relations skills. James Carville and Karl<br \/>\nRove should be the titular heads of this program.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>The<br \/>\nBush administration deserves criticism for its failure to repair<br \/>\nAmerica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s public diplomacy apparatus. No group other than neocons is<br \/>\nlikely to figure out how to do that. We are, after all, a movement<br \/>\nwhose raison d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c3\u00aatre was combating anti-Americanism in the United<br \/>\nStates. Who better, then, to combat it abroad?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Prepare to Bomb Iran.<\/span> Make no mistake, President Bush will need to bomb Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nuclear facilities before leaving office.\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Recruit Joe Lieberman for 2008.<\/span>Twice<br \/>\nin the last quarter-century we had the good fortune to see presidents<br \/>\nelected who were sympathetic to our understanding of the world. [&#8230;]<br \/>\nAs for vice presidential candidates, how about Condoleezza Rice or even<br \/>\nJoe Lieberman? Lieberman says he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a Democrat. But there is no<br \/>\nplace for him in that party. Like every one of us, he is a refugee.<br \/>\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already endured the rigors of running for the White House. In<br \/>\n2008, he deserves another chance .<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/performancing.com\/firefox\">performancing firefox<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so wrong, I don&#8217;t even know where to start.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t even figure out if I should snark or just throw up.&nbsp; These are clearly the writings of someone who should be chained to a rotary leash in his own back yard and fed powerful antipsychotics. 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