Thursday, January 13, 2005
Steven Vincent takes the New York Times to task for its naive and appeasing editorial on postponing the Iraqi elections. One has to wonder, with their constantly listing news coverage and consequently poor analysis - do they really, deep down, want things to go badly? No need to answer. Oh, and I recommend Vincent's blog (along with The Diplomad - no offense to all the others I read, but those two are very good) as a frequent surfing destination.
In the Red Zone: ELECTIONS, INTERRUPTED:
After noting that violence is likely to depress turnout in Iraq's western, and predominately Sunni, provinces, the Times calls for a postponement of voting for a "fixed period of only two or three months," during which time the Allawi government "should convene an emergency meeting" to develop a "revised election timetable." In return, Sunni leaders "would have to promise to take part in the elections that followed." In other words, the Times and the "realist" establishment it represents, counsels the Iraqi government to answer the fascist insurgency by delaying elections, calling a meeting and holding Sunnis to their word. We've witnessed this sort of "realistic" betrayal of democracy and reliance on paper agreements and the pledges of criminal thugs before, only it didn't take place in Baghdad--but in Munich...
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Steven Vincent, takes the New York Times to task for what Solomon refers to as its naive and appeasing editorial on postponing the Iraqi elections. I would refer to it as naive, appeasing to the terrorists, and in concurrance with the Steven Vincent,da... Read More
Steven Vincent, takes the New York Times to task for what Solomon refers to as its naive and appeasing editorial on postponing the Iraqi elections. I would refer to it as naive, appeasing to the terrorists, and in concurrance with the Steven Vincent,da... Read More
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