7 Comments so far

1. Jaded Prole February 28th, 2007 2:34 pm

   The days when we could act with impunity and threaten the globe into submission are over. The CIA’s activities, our rendition and torture camps are a travesty. It will take a great effort and much time to overcome the vile reputation the neocons have given the US around the world.

2. jake123 February 28th, 2007 2:45 pm

   John Bellinger is clearly able to engage in utter doublethink in the classic sense of the word. Either that, or he’s completely amoral.

3. ballerina March 1st, 2007 6:14 am

   Lest Europe forget: first they came for the Jews and i said nothing because I am not a Jew…

4. paschn March 1st, 2007 8:25 am

   The drones in this country have been under the assumption that the U.S. can/doesn’t do any wrong. If they’d do a bit of research into their human rights tainted history, they’d be ashamed and shocked. I know it’s difficult since the media has been taken over by the corporate handlers of such fine leaders as Bush, Cheney, McCain et al, but the unbiased info is out there. All you really need is an objective sense of fairness and be totally devoid of the idiotic mantra, “my country, right or wrong”.

5. ChristIsntComingBack March 1st, 2007 12:04 pm

   undermine what? What intelligence could th US possibly have? It’s simply another scare tactic that any 5 year old can see through.

6. walkingbear March 2nd, 2007 2:10 am

   Maybe so but the problem is the US and the CIA have the potential of a paranoid tyrant…and they think that they hold the power in this situation. Deluded or not they can believe that they could create a big problem if Europe doesnt fall in line with their thinking.
   The fact that they are a bunch of self obsessed evil manipulators of the media to create a world where we are here just to feed the machine as it rolls ever onwards to melt down could be put down to our paranoi too.
   In the end the more Evil the Empire, the more Paranoid the Society. I’m just off to play my violin….I think I can smell something burning?!
   Ho
   WalkingBear

7. DePaulDog March 2nd, 2007 12:14 pm

   I find it odd for Bellinger to make a comment about the fact that Europe is criticising the US for keeping Guantanamo open without coming up with a better solution. Since when did Europe have a hand in Guantanamo? I’m a US citizen, and I criticise the government for the same thing. Does that mean that I should come up with a solution to the problem, too?

   Well, here’s the solution: Allow inmates to talk to their lawyers. Retract Bush’s executive order that denies Habeas Corpus. Have trials. Close the prision. Simple.

   Next, Mr. Bellinger???

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