Posted on 02/21/2003 8:05:54 PM PST by Timeout
Susan Sontag has become the poster girl of anti-war protests among the intelligensia. But now a piece she wrote in 1999 about the Kosovo conflict has come to light...and it shows the blatant hypocracy of today's libs.
WHY ARE WE IN KOSOVO?" by Susan Sontag, May 2, 1999
She deplores Europe's inaction "in the face of all this irrational slaughter and suffering," and observes: "Of course, it is easy to turn your eyes from what is happening if it is not happening to you."
In answer to the placards at antiwar demonstrations, she says: "For Peace. Against War. Who is not? But how can you stop those bent on genocide without making war?"
She argues that a dictator need not pose an immediate threat to those outside his borders to justify taking action against him: "Imagine that Nazi Germany had had no expansionist ambitions but had simply made it a policy in the late 1930's and early 1940's to slaughter all the German Jews. Do we think a government has the right to do whatever it wants on its own territory? Maybe the governments of Europe would have said that 60 years ago. But would we approve now of their decision?"
In other words, she used every single argument being used today TO SUPPORT WAR in Iraq. Of course, they saw Kosovo as a "humanitarian war", not one where we greedy Americans were just protecting our own national interests (God forbid!). This needs to be seen far and wide as a perfect example of the libs' real agenda: pulling down Bush.
SIMON & Garfunkel fans shouldn't expect a reunion tour - ever. Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon bickered like ex-spouses at the sound check Sunday afternoon and almost didn't make it onto the stage later for the Grammys, where they appeared together for the first time in 10 years. According to sources at Madison Square Garden, Garfunkel said to Simon: "You don't play for me - you play for yourself! We have to play in sync."
The two "went at it" and the stage manager cleared everyone else from the stage while the former partners went to their respective dressing rooms to cool off. Simon's rep, Dan Klores, branded our sources "liars," and swore the fight never happened. But one of our witnesses said: "It happened. I was one of the people cleared from the stage. It is a shame because they would make a ton of money if they did a tour, but they looked very uncomfortable in each other's presence."
Give this man a Nobel Peace Prize!
BONO, the U2 frontman who campaigns for Third World debt relief, is said to be the buyer of Steve Jobs' $14.7 million triplex in the north tower of the San Remo on Central Park West. Jobs, the Apple CEO, has had the two-bedroom apartment for more than a decade and spent $1 million renovating it. But is the 3,500-square-foot aerie big enough for Bono, plus his wife and three kids, who live comfortably down the street in the El Dorado? Bono's flack didn't return calls. Page Six
I just hope the apt. is big enough for his ego (and his pal x42's, if Hewson ever has him over for snacks).
The Bellagio is very chic and the foyer is probably the only place in town that features real Italian tiles over which endless tourists traipse. I took refuge on Petrossian's nearly empty patio to watch hordes of grossly fat and nearly naked Americans wearing shorts trying to get into the café. I couldn't help but think of the millions of seriously thoughtful people around the world who were walking to protest the threat of a war with Iraq at that moment. [She must mean those hordes of grossly filthy, some naked and all ignorantly anti-American "thoughtful people"] Then I ordered a second martini.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands--With WorldCom and Enron still fresh in investors' minds, Europe was confronted with its own corporate accounting scandal Monday when the world's third biggest food retailer Ahold admitted vastly overstating earnings over the past two years.
Ahold's top two executives resigned, and several senior U.S. managers were suspended while investigations focused on whether income was booked prematurely at the company's U.S. Foodservice arm. Ahold also owns Stop & Shop; Skokie-based Peapod Inc., the online grocery, and other U.S. supermarket chains. source
Hillary's up to her usual tricks:
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a PAC rat who spent most of her massive HILLPAC political-action committee's cash stash on herself rather than to help other Democrats, a new analysis shows. Clinton (D-N.Y.) has the biggest federal PAC of any Democrat in Congress and spent $3.3 million last year but gave only 31 percent to other candidates. The rest went for her own staff, office, travel, direct mail and political consultants, the Hill newspaper found.
"It looks like she's building a national network . . . The assumption on the part of many people is that this is the beginning of laying the groundwork for a presidential campaign for the future," said Larry Noble of the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group. ...
The leader who gave by far the smallest share to others was the campaign finance reformer-in-chief Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), whose PAC spent 98 percent on his own travel, consultants and overhead - and gave just 2 percent to fellow Republicans.
Critics say personal PACs like HILLPAC let lawmakers double-dip and effectively exceed legal limits by raising funds twice from the same source - once for their own campaign and once for the PAC - then using both stashes to boost themselves. full story
What can we expect from a company who's name sounds like "Clymer"?
This is indeed good news. Surely they tried to get their case into the court of a sympathetic judge.....wonder what happened?
Per Drudge,
"Phil Donahue's six-month primetime talk show run on MSNBC has ended..."
[It's only been 6 months?!]
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