Letter to Chicago Tribune Editorial Board on Charles Krauthammer column
The Tribune Editorial Board would not advocate, much less give, matches to a known pyromaniac. Why then give column space (The fantasy of 'deterence works', September 3) to Charles Krauthammer, a known criminal war propagandist who was one of the chief media cheerleaders for our criminal Iraq war? Krauthammer will live out his life never apologizing, much less admitting that his bloodthirsty columns helped hypnotize our nation of sheep into allowing the Bush administration to unleash murder and mayhem upon Iraq to the tune of several million dead, injured and displaced Iraqis; and 4,488 dead GI's and several hundred thousand more wounded, injured or mentally broken. The price tag for Krauthammer's folly? Three trillion and counting as the cost of caring for damaged GI's will last a couple more generations.
But, here we are, nine and a half years later, and Krauthammer, instead of being shunned for the immoral, literary war lover he is, continues to spew his war mongering, this time for a combined Israeli, American war against Iran, in the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, Fox News, PBS and over 275 newspapers, one of which, alas, is the Chicago Tribune.
If you haven't noticed, America's run as the world's only super power is rapidly coming to an end as we've squandered trillions, not the mention oceans of blood, on failed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The last thing we need is to let, in Krauthammer's words "a speck on the map" drag us into anther senseless, pre-emptive war against Iran. The Israeli war party under President Benjamin Netanyahu recognizes Israel is too weak to successfully defeat Iran unilaterally, so they use their allies in the Administration, the Congress and particularly the press as exemplified by Krauthammer, to draw in American support, thus putting Israel's interests ahead of Uncle Sam's. That is reprehensible and arguably treasonous.
Why give valuable newsprint and electronic space to a venture, with no justification whatsoever, that would unleash chaos throughout the region, further degrade Israeli-Egyptian relations, encourage spread of the Syrian civil war beyond its borders, launch attacks on Israel and US ships nearby, create a new Palestinian intifada, drive gas prices to unseen heights and likely stall any worldwide economic recovery.
Before getting another word printed or beamed in the Trib, Krauthammer, himself a psychiatrist, should be required to see a psychiatrist to unearth the pathology that drives him to go from promoting one failed criminal war after another. Come to think of it, the entire Tribune Editorial Board should take a turn on the couch. Just make sure their psychiatrist isn't the irrepressible Dr Krauthammer.
But, here we are, nine and a half years later, and Krauthammer, instead of being shunned for the immoral, literary war lover he is, continues to spew his war mongering, this time for a combined Israeli, American war against Iran, in the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, Fox News, PBS and over 275 newspapers, one of which, alas, is the Chicago Tribune.
If you haven't noticed, America's run as the world's only super power is rapidly coming to an end as we've squandered trillions, not the mention oceans of blood, on failed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The last thing we need is to let, in Krauthammer's words "a speck on the map" drag us into anther senseless, pre-emptive war against Iran. The Israeli war party under President Benjamin Netanyahu recognizes Israel is too weak to successfully defeat Iran unilaterally, so they use their allies in the Administration, the Congress and particularly the press as exemplified by Krauthammer, to draw in American support, thus putting Israel's interests ahead of Uncle Sam's. That is reprehensible and arguably treasonous.
Why give valuable newsprint and electronic space to a venture, with no justification whatsoever, that would unleash chaos throughout the region, further degrade Israeli-Egyptian relations, encourage spread of the Syrian civil war beyond its borders, launch attacks on Israel and US ships nearby, create a new Palestinian intifada, drive gas prices to unseen heights and likely stall any worldwide economic recovery.
Before getting another word printed or beamed in the Trib, Krauthammer, himself a psychiatrist, should be required to see a psychiatrist to unearth the pathology that drives him to go from promoting one failed criminal war after another. Come to think of it, the entire Tribune Editorial Board should take a turn on the couch. Just make sure their psychiatrist isn't the irrepressible Dr Krauthammer.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 2:31 PM
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