Stop Getting Mad, America. Get Smart.

Washington Post ^ | December 9, 2007 | Richard L. Armitage and Joseph S. Nye Jr.

[america4vr]

This is by far the most nauseatingly, pompous moon-batty puke-fest I have ever been subjected to, EVER.

To paraphrase *any* aspect of this emphatically naive, insipidly amateurish, didactic sermon that reads like some high-school morality play is too much to ask.

Had someone ask me to take a stab at identifying the venuein which this was conveyed, I would have said without equivocation to be some lame home page/ blog/social bookmarking site. But no, it was nothing less than the voice of one of the MSM's most distinguished, prestigious institutions. And in light of this inexcusable drivel makes it all the more harder to understand

[RKV]

Yep. Perhaps the Admins would add the BARF alert to the title. This one reeks!

[Billthedrill]

The world is dissatisfied with American leadership.

Good. The world is an ass.

[Enchante]

There we have it, a reminder of why Richard Armitage of Plamegate infamy was so happy to sell out the administration and fan the flames for the most most fanatical Bush/Cheney haters out there....

btw, maybe Armitage should ponder just how emphemeral any progress would be of trying to kiss up to Islamofascists, as we think of the example of how our extensive relief efforts to help earthquake victims in Pakistan has not had any lasting effect upon public attitudes toward the USA:

"And yet, for a brief period in late 2005 and early 2006, U.S. favorability ratings approached 50 percent in Pakistan. Why? Because of the U.S. military's effective and principled response to the October 2005 earthquake there, the largest and longest relief effort in U.S. military history. It showed Pakistanis U.S. commitment and friendship and provided an important source of smart power. It demonstrated, however briefly, that America's standing in the world can indeed be restored."

[Vision Thing]

It sounds like the authors of this tripe cannot walk-the-talk of their own battle cry. They tell us to stop getting mad, but this article is full of anger.

[lonestar67]

I wish we would get tough rhetorically with this nonsense.

The idea that America is arrogant and brash is ridiculous and downright dangerous.

Saudia Arabia is humble.

Iran is humble.
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Russia is humble.

How?!

America is the lineage of hope. Look at South Korea. Look at Europe. Look at Japan.

The best thing that can happen to the various assortments of fascism on this earth is to get kindly crushed by the US military. Then we allow a decent government to take its place and provide a modicum of humanity to the imperial nightmares that infect this earth.

[ECM]

Armitage?! Talk about gall...

[xJones]

But no, it was nothing less than the voice of one of the MSM's most distinguished, prestigious institutions.

Get a life, the Wopo lost it's reputation a long time ago.

[Eagles6]

Yes, absolutely disgusting. Most disturbing is that an obvious enemy like Armitage was in such an influential post. The President’s worst mistake was to not clean house on day 1.

[Cementjungle]

The world is dissatisfied with American leadership.

The world should stop watching CNN.

[khnyny]

What a surprise./s

Richard Armitage is THE person responsible for blowing Valerie Plame’s supposed “cover”, but NOTHING was ever done to him about it....

[JohnLongIsland]

translation: bend down and grab them ankles real good...

[alarm rider]

Yeah, you are correct. He did not have the stones to do what he should have done, and he continues to take doo-doo from the left.

No more RINOS for me, not now, not ever. Walk the walk, and talk the talk, or you won’t get my vote.

[sinclair]

F*ck you Richard L. Armitage and Joseph S. Nye Jr.. I don't know how many of your family died on 9/11 as a result of that act of war perpetrated by the Islamofacists but I sincerely hope it is only you and yours who suffer the next time.

[Eye of Unk]

When I read the description of this forum my first thought was it was telling America to be better armed.

[khnyny]

Also from the WP:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460.html

WE’RE RELUCTANT to return to the subject of former CIA employee Valerie Plame because of our oft-stated belief that far too much attention and debate in Washington has been devoted to her story and that of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, over the past three years. But all those who have opined on this affair ought to take note of the not-so-surprising disclosure that the primary source of the newspaper column in which Ms. Plame’s cover as an agent was purportedly blown in 2003 was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage.

Mr. Armitage was one of the Bush administration officials who supported the invasion of Iraq only reluctantly. He was a political rival of the White House and Pentagon officials who championed the war and whom Mr. Wilson accused of twisting intelligence about Iraq and then plotting to destroy him. Unaware that Ms. Plame’s identity was classified information, Mr. Armitage reportedly passed it along to columnist Robert D. Novak “in an offhand manner, virtually as gossip,” according to a story this week by the Post’s R. Jeffrey Smith, who quoted a former colleague of Mr. Armitage.

[gusopol3]

the very dude who threatened to bomb Pak back to the stone age.

[JasonC]

This is in fact the standard CFR line on the center left, and has been for a decade and a half. They are hopelessly naive, stuck in the past, dreaming of being loved again by everyone. Fundamentally they have not adapted to the end of the cold war and the diminished need of the rest of the developed world for immediate US leadership and assistance, and they believe the fundamental change behind that is instead a mere atmospheric matter of Bush cowboyism. They are a fundamentally frivilous set of people, but enourmously full of themselves.

[khnyny]

Actually, I enjoy reading the obituaries in the WP. Occasionally, they can be quite interesting.:)

[the Real fifi]

In a better world, Richard Armitage would have been shunned forever and lived his last days in social and political isolation.