If you follow current events at all, you will know that President Obama has adopted and expanded all of the so called, cowboy, "shred the Constitution" policies of the Bush Administration--signing statements, drone attacks (now against an American Citizen) Gitmo, invading Libya.
The left was apoplectic over Bush and completely ignores Obama. Frankly, this show of hypocrisy is what I enjoy most about the Obama administration.
Now it appears that the US and Israel are killing Iranian Scientists. Here's an interesting article about the killings and about the silence of the left.
What’s most remarkable here is to compare the boisterous, furious denunciations of the mere suggestion by a blogger on the Internet that Iranian scientists be killed, versus the relative silence in the face of its actually being done in real life, now that the corpses of murdered Iranian scientists are beginning to pile up. Does anyone doubt that some combination of the two nations completely obsessed with Iran’s nuclear program — Israel and the U.S. — are responsible?
You wrote "catatonic" but you probably meant something like "apoplectic."
We can ignore typos, misspellings and odd grammar but in this case you are using a word that means the opposite of your intent.
Posted by: Greybeard | January 14, 2012 at 12:53 PM
I hate to disagree with you as often I don't. There is an interesting article on foreignpolicy.com
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag
It not so subtly blames the Israeli's and tells them to stop using a false flag practice they probably used to assassinate a number of Iranians scientists.
Posted by: Kenneth Zarda | January 14, 2012 at 02:11 PM
What direct evidence, if any, do you have to back up your allegation the US was involved?
Posted by: Walt Stephenson | January 14, 2012 at 02:20 PM
Walt, covert ops are ... covert. There is no direct evidence that any nation was involved. It is possible that Israel was involved. It is possible that the US was involved. It is also possible that Sweden was involved. But most people who pay attention to such things might say -- both Israel and the US (as of late) have a track record in killing individuals like this, but Sweden does not, so it's rational to suspect Israel and the US but Sweden -- not so much.
Posted by: George | January 14, 2012 at 02:27 PM
As someone who voted for Obama in 2008 I can state without a guilty conscience that I will not be voting for the president for a few of the reasons Greg mentioned.
Posted by: coatimundi | January 14, 2012 at 03:20 PM
Strange how the policies that were so reviled during W's Presidency have been continued and in some cases expanded. Maybe its because they were...effective. Another thought is maybe now that Hussein the Wise gets the same intelligence briefings that Dubya did, he realized his previous notions were mistaken.
His followers...well, they can still hope for change.
Posted by: exurbanDoug | January 16, 2012 at 09:25 AM
Perhaps some Iranian killers?
Posted by: Nicholas | January 17, 2012 at 09:52 PM
The "hypocrisy" is really based more on ridiculous misinterpretation and complete ignorance of facts. We invaded Libya? The left has been silent? Obama made no effort to shut down Gitmo? He's continued torturing people?
The right wing continues living in it's fantasy world. There is now no doubt that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction. The economy is fundamentally sound. Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. The insurgency is in its last throes. We invaded Libya. Obama tortures people just like Bush did. And the left remains silent.
Posted by: FactuallyChallenged | January 18, 2012 at 10:09 AM