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Commentary Smears Senator Bernie Sanders |
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 by David Kelsey, January 14, 2009 |
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Abe Greenwald botches the reason for Senator Bernie Sanders' rejection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery's original language about President George W. Bush that included the language referencing,
“the attacks on September 11, 2001, that led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."
Greenwald claims,
So the attacks of September 11 now had nothing to do with the war in Afghanistan either. In a few (very few) generations our children’s children will be writing papers about that horrible day in the fall of 2001 when pilot error killed 3000 Americans and that more horrible day a few months later when the U.S. President firebombed Afghanistan to open up the first front in the Halliburton War.
But is that what Sanders is saying?
According to CNS News, which Greenwald references as the source for Sanders' complaint, Sanders was rejecting only linkage to the Iraq War, not linkage to Afghanistan.
Sanders objected to the sign's language because he believed it suggested a linkage between the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
And sure enough, this is clearly what the Gallery is appropriately responding to.
Our label was not intended to imply that there was a causal connection between the attacks that occurred on 9/11 and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Greenwald should retract his allegations immediately.
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Alcove-One
I suppose the next step is to protest the World War Two Memorial in Washington DC because it links the Pacific War and the War in Europe.
There are several lost souls on the far left and far right who will tell you that the US fought Japan because they attacked Pearl Harbor and fought Germany because of the Jooos.
Brian
OK, Alcove-One. So what is your indisputable case that links 9/11 to the war in Iraq?
Alcove-One
The ONLY way to prevent another 9/11 in this century is a democrat revolution is the Middle-East and Iraq is now the only Islamic nation is the region with a duly elected government and constitution. One big step in the right direction in a process that will take generations.
9/11 happened because the West made a fetish of stability and containment in that part of the world and it doesn't work.
Without that example of REAL hope and change we will be simply waiting for a succession of 9/11 atrocities.
Brian
How does the installation of a democracy prevent these atrocities, and what is to prevent a Middle Eastern populace from duly electing a Wahabi theocracy? Sharansky and Netanyahu are always evasive of this question. Do you have an answer?
suitepotato
is the first step to clearing the jungle, and by doing so allow a clearing where more things than the calls of Pan-Arabism and Islamism have been allowed a captive audience without reasonable chance for competing viewpoints.
All containment has done is leave the peoples of Muslim dominated lands to the tender mercies of those two groups and the result is cultural rot of the sort seen in Europe during the Dark Ages when the Catholic Church was the only game in town and all others scurried like rats in the shadows lest they raise their ire and oh yes, they went a crusadin'.
That's not healthy for humans. It breed supremacist notions, xenophobic ideas, and so forth. People need to be free to explore the boundaries of the human condition beyond their doors freely. Insulating the eastern world from the rest doesn't help them and it doesn't help us.
Barbara Reader
Because I have seen the allegation Alcove One mentions, I do want to clarify here that when Japan attacked the US, and theUS declared war on Japan, in accordance with their treaty with Japan, Germany declared war on the US. The US did not turn around and involve Germany, but rather it was Germany that honored it's treaty with Japan and entered the US-Japan conflict.
zimmer.ben
very good post, i got a lot from it
ben.