It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics war democracy economics conservatism civil-liberties radicalism 2010 united-states-senate united-states-elections-2010 ron-johnson russ-feingold us-senate-wisconsin-2010 bernie-sanders lloyd-blankfein right-wing
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics elitism consensus experts twitter 2011 expertise 2011-norway-attacks
I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: independence responsibility partisanship
The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: morality george-w-bush moralism immorality moral-authority
Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the National Review blog in November 2006: 'I had and have no involvement with our Iraq policy'. I opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place.'
Ledeen, however, wrote in August 2002 of 'the desperately-needed and long overdue war against Saddam Hussein' and when he was interviewed for Front Page Magazine the same month and asked, 'Okay, well if we are all so certain about the dire need to invade Iraq, then when do we do so?' Ledeen replied: 'Yesterday.' There is obvious, substantial risk in falsely claiming that one opposed the Iraq War notwithstanding a public record of support. But that war has come to be viewed as such a profound failure that that risk, at least in the eyes of some, is outweighed by the prospect of being associated with Bush's invasion.
Tags: politics war foreign-policy hypocrisy cowardice iraq iraq-war revisionism 2006 2002 2003-invasion-of-iraq saddam-hussein opposition-to-the-iraq-war anti-war-movement neoconservatism american-enterprise-institute frontpage-magazine michael-ledeen national-review
Bush violated FISA [...] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general 'principle' that he was not bound by the law, to show that he has the power to break the law, that he is more powerful than the law.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics power united-states law george-w-bush crime executive-government precedent
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: fear lies united-states media journalism propaganda iraq-war careerism media-of-the-united-states
The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?
Glenn GreenwaldTags: war united-states drugs poverty iraq-war terrorism war-on-terror war-on-drugs war-on-poverty
A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics war united-states george-w-bush governance iraq-war vietnam-war lyndon-b-johnson
American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.
Glenn GreenwaldTags: politics united-states satire twitter 2011
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