“This disclosure is not just an attack on America’s foreign policy interests,” Clinton said. “It is an attack on the international community: the alliances and partnerships, the conversations and negotiations that safeguard global security and advance economic prosperity.”We can not think of anything more deserving of attack than a bunch of wretched fascists/corporatists who "safeguard global security & advance economic prosperity." Especially when the global security & economic prosperity (Is there another kind of "prosperity," to which Sec. Clinton is, perhaps, opposed?) in question is anti-democratic, pro-corporate & just plain evil.
“It puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems,” she told reporters at the State Department.
And certainly nothing that Sec. Clinton & the other ghouls that run things have done has ever put anyone's lives in danger or threatened our national security, has it?
This was spotted at Crooked Timber. Note the date and cackle.
ReplyDeleteHa, Persian exceptionalism, figured out by a Yank diplomat. Hope the author was a hostage!
ReplyDeleteParagraph 3 is true, slightly truncated:
PERHAPS THE SINGLE DOMINANT ASPECT OF THE PERSIAN PSYCHE IS AN OVERRIDING EGOISM. ITS ANTECEDENTS LIE IN THE LONG IRANIAN HISTORY.
Someone in the CT thread suggests substituting "Wall Street" for "Persia" and I swear I had the same thought and beat them to it but did not post because I suck.
ReplyDeleteJustice Is Rendered Ed. Notes:
ReplyDeleteBoth of those named on the cable were indeed held hostage:
Victor L. Tomseth, 39 - Senior Political Officer, held at Iranian Foreign Ministry Office
L. Bruce Laingen, 58 - Chargé d'Affaires, held at Iranian Foreign Ministry Office