Sour on Krauthammer . . .

Time for a new turn on the blog.

I am Sour on Krauthammer!

Don't know what I am talking about? Here, look at this article in current issue of Time

So, what do you think? The standard line about the UN being useless?

I recognize the UN has not lived up to it's intended mission, but lets not forget who has said and done what.

Here is my letter to Time on the matter:

re: Krauthammer on the failings of the UN (Time US Oct 23, 06)

This is the 2nd or 3rd occasion, I believe, that I am writing to Time regarding an article by this so-called journalist and commentator.

There is a very deep irony in this fellow earning money to write about the failings of the UN.

Why? Because he vigorously supported the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 - an action that is now widely recognized in the US, as it was initially in most of the rest of the world, as a brazen incursion enacted for other purposes under the pretext of “intelligence” regarding Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. With hindsight it is clear that Krauthammer and the rest of the media assisted in spooking the nation into quietly going along with this at the time. The consequences have been disastrous.

If the UN were able to read Time, it might have sent a letter with the reminder that Krauthammer was wrong, and the UN right, about Iraq.

But to add insult to injury, in the same article, Krauthammer writes that the UN Security Council was “reduced to a bystander when a second Gulf War broke out in 2003 ”. Did you see that? Of course you did - the war simply broke out.

The reason this matters is because many US politicians and the right wing media regularly belittle the UN. It is of course quite clear that by invading Iraq, it was the US that reduced the UN to a bystander - theirby fulfulling their collective prophecy.

Clearly Krauthammer was right to state earlier in this article that “illusions never die”. In his case it is more a "delusion": that he and the rest of the Neocon establishment were right about going into Iraq and creating a new democratic reality in the Middle East.

So, to conclude, some possible headliners you (Time) might consider:

Sour on Krauthammer.

or

We should learn from our past; if a journalist has no merits, he can’t write.

Or he can write, just not for money, and/or not for Time.

Ps feel free to send the feedback on to him as well.

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To which I have had the following reply - gib a kook, and stay tuned for more in this vein.

Dear Reader:

Thank you for writing. We welcome timely, insightful reactions to material we have published, and we can assure you that your observations found an attentive audience among the editors. Should your comments be selected for the column, you will be notified in advance of publication. Again, our thanks for letting us hear from you. We hope that you will write again should you discover something of particular interest in the news or in our reporting of it.

Best wishes.

TIME Letters
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Update November 1st 2006.

Of course, we are not alone! At least, I am not . . . when it comes to "zis zauer kraut".

Check out this google search of "Sour Krauthammer". Just be warned, this is a regular web-search, and some sites you reach may not be suitably restrained in their use of language. For this, I can not be held responsible. As for Krauthammer, I am not done with him yet.