Posted by
Dan Abbett on Sunday, December 09, 2007 3:17:02 PM
Liberal Speak
Listening to the rhetoric, mostly from the left, the explanation with regard to the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear weapons program sounds something like this: Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003 except we really aren’t sure but we think we are but we mustn’t be fooled because diplomacy is working because we used carrots as sticks.
If you had trouble following that rant, consider what the explanation for the current NIE report sounds like to the layman. In 2005, the NIE was highly confident that Iran was moving clandestinely toward a nuclear weapon. In 2007, they are highly confident that they have no confidence in their 2005 estimate because they had no clue about the halt in 2003. All this presupposes that this is only an estimate, as information regarding Iran may be disinformation. And this is supposed to give us confidence in the report’s credibility?
Is everybody with me so far? How in the world can the public develop an informed opinion, when what is being reported is contradicted by the left, the right is contradicting the left’s contradictions and members of Congress to include those running for president are contradictions unto themselves? What truly is stupid is that these political hacks believe we really are falling for this “garbage.” I wanted to use a stronger word here but respect restrains my temptation.
What all this gets to is the absolute intent of those who believe they hold a seat of power in this nation to treat us all as fools and idiots. What they really believe with respect to the gullibility of the American electorate is that they can fool us all of the time. In short, they really do believe you are stupid, unimportant and inconsequential in the greater scheme of power politics. To them, to quote Vladimir Lenin, we are “useful idiots.”
Consider the levels of obfuscation clouding the issues that matter most to the American public: Overwhelming contradictions of their positions on the issues by those currently running for the office of president. The, “they were building nukes before they weren’t,” opinions of our intelligence community. The surge is working, the surge is failure rhetoric and the absolute manipulation of the facts by the media. How in the hell are we to know the truth?
Enter now the news media, to distort this confusion in their desperate determination to make up your mind for you as to what you should believe regardless of such silly things as the facts. The consequences of their influence on the choices we make are irrelevant to the news media. They simply are determined that we make the choices that best meets their politically correct expectations to ensure the continuation of the liberal political power structure.
Credible authors such as Robert Tracinski, John Bolton and Norman Podhoretz have published striking articles that shed a very suspicious light on the validity and intent of the latest NIE Report on Iran. Tracinski writing at TIADaily.com suggests, “the report amounts to propaganda.” John Bolton’s article in the Washington Post points out serious flaws in the report and Norman Podhoretz, writing in Commentary, raises valid questions to support this suspicion. It does little for the credibility of this report that the leading authors of the estimate are all former partisan liberal members of the State Department as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
What all sides agree on is that this report has hamstrung the president from pursuing serious action to halt Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, from harsh sanctions to the military option. In a presidential election year, you could look at it as a way to take Iran off the table as a serious campaign issue.
The door may have been slammed in the face of the president’s ability to put pressure on Iran but one can only wonder what the pressure will be on future administrations, as Iran now continues unabated with its nuclear ambitions. It will be interesting to observe the level of “liberal speak” employed to “talk” their way out of the fact that they may well have been the catalyst that led to the eventuality of a nuclear Iran.