Vidal Slams U.S. for Waging 'Perpetual War'

Yahoo ^ | 11/23/01 | Stephanie Holmes

[Clara Lou]

Vidal, one of contemporary America's harshest critics, has had trouble finding an audience for his views back home and is publishing his latest collection of essays in his adoptive country, Italy.

Now let him give up his citizenship.

[IronJack]

Oh, yes. That would be the renowned foreign policy expert, Gore Vidal. Better to take advice from your neighborhood cobbler.

[TomGuy]

Vidal, why don't you explain how the US should "buy" peace with Bin Laden to 3,900 families in the NYC area; 300 firemen's families; 44 Flight 93 families.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Who the hell cares what Gore Vidal thinks? Oh, yeah... our despicable national news media and liberal "intelligentsia" among the "academics". What losers! They've been wrong for 30 years (actually, their entire lifetimes). They'll never change and they'll never be right.

[beckett]

Leave it to Reuters to disseminate the insane rantings of this slug.

[KeyBored]

Gore Vidal is a distant relative of AlGore.

Surprise, surprise.

[cake_crumb]

Further proof that the popular media are a bunch of idiots. Publishing the "opinions" of the likes of experienced policy makers such as Vidal ranks right up there with publishing the politcy opinions of Babs, Gere, Baldwin, Carter, either Clinton, etc, etc, etc. Of course, by the length of the list, these "news" outlets would have trouble staying in business, I guess.

"Vidal, one of contemporary America's harshest critics, has had trouble finding an audience for his views back home and is publishing his latest collection of essays in his adoptive country, Italy"

Translation: yet another total has-been resorts to political "activism" in an attempt to pull what's left of their career out of the dumpster.

[Tacis]

It is just so sad when fairies get old and the other fairies who used to praise him begin dying off and the younger fairies who have replaced the dead fairies just don't think much of the surviving fairy or his silly work.

We never get a good answer from these jerks to the question, "Do you guarantee that YOUR suggested response to the Holocaust will prevent another attack by OBL and his supporters?" Gore should go back to persuing little boys and leave foreign policy to, well, any one else.

[Malacoda]

Feh.

Should be, "Readers Slam Vidal for Overblown, Nonsensical, Plotless Tripe."

[harpu]

There was a time when a butthole like Vidal (a US citizen) would make a comment like this, in a foreign land, would find re-entry to the US just a little more difficult then usual. Maybe NO, it's time for that kind of treatment to return to those who make borderline, traitorist statements against OUR government's direction.

[LibWhacker]

You don't declare war on Sicily because the Mafia happen to live in Sicily. You don't bomb Palermo.

Sure you do, if Sicily won't let you in to do what needs to be done.

[AZLiberty]

Why didn't we think of this earlier? Maybe if we just gave Hitler Czechoslokia, then he would have left the rest of us alone. If that didn't work, we could have given him Poland, and so on ...

[samtheman]

``Bin Laden strikes at America at the moment we are entering a world depression...it is the most fragile moment in the West. For someone who does not wish us well that was brilliantly timed,'' Vidal said.

He's been striking at America continuously for the past 10 years. This strike struck it big. But there was no timing to it. Like the rabbit with the long-life battery, he just kept striking and striking and striking... and since with had a clintOOn instead of a president, we merely encouraged bin laden to strike at us some more. So he did. And struck it big.

Now we're in the process of taking away the scumbunny's battery and old-fag vidal isn't amused.

So we lose his vote. Oh well...

By the way, is it a coincidence that his first name is Gore?

[LibWhacker]

Vidal told Reuters that the United States would have been better served trying to buy peace with Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) rather than send in the bombers to try and kill him.

The Barbary pirates tried to extract tribute from Jefferson, but he knew that would just lead to further demands. Seems Vidal has forgotten his history.

[hellinahandcart]

He likes to stand tall. The taller you stand the more likely you are to get hit by a kamikaze pilot,'' Vidal said.

And Vidal is a very SMALL man, a bitter, jealous, arrogant lowlife whose idea of "greatness" in a nation is submitting to blackmail.

The lower you crouch, Vidal, the more likely you are to get yourself kicked in the ass.

[hellinahandcart]

``And if you are a really great nation you buy him. That's the way every empire from Julius Caesar on has done it,'' he said, adding that he believed President Bush (news - web sites), had ulterior motives for promising a long war.

Oh, that's right!! I FORGOT that Rome had no standing armies and never went to war with anyone. Thank God there's an intellectual like Gore Vidal around to correct my feeble knowledge of history.

[Creightongrad]

This guy is a complete loon. I'm gratified to know that he is related to Al Gore. It runs in the family.

[samtheman]

The lower you crouch, Vidal, the more likely you are to get yourself kicked in the ass.

Good one!

[mlocher]

i guess vidal is not a total idiot. this capitalistic journalist still wants to make money and he is taking his goods overseas where the market may be better.

what a hypocrite.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

William F Buckley summed up Vidal nicely on a "live"edition of PBS's show Firing Line about 25 years ago
Buckley)" Listen you f-ing faggot,if you call me a neo nazi on this show jusy one more time, I'll knock you g--dam block off"