May 12th at 11:50PM
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: You Probably Don't Understand the Iraq War
Former Bush Administration Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight to set the record straight on the Iraq war. Apparently we were not mislead misled into war. I believe him. Unless he's misleading me now...
Anyway, Jon started summer early by firing up the grill and sticking Feith on it. Listen to the defense of a man who was in the room when all the planning went down and decide if it flips your script.
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Poor Jon, he certainly does lack the ability to suggest an underlying theme. All he does is agree with his guests so that it is simply a book plug. I have never learned that he might suggest that the his current guest is just part of the big nasty propaganda machine who is trying to make us feel OK about the current war.
It took two world wars, a systematic genocide both in Europe, and in North America, the colonising and enslavement of a variety of cultures; the blood of so many anonymous innocents in order to lead to what you deem, in this era of fear and distrust, as "Enlightenment"
The west is far from an enlightened culture.
And rest of the world has begun to realise that they don't simply have to sit back and watch as America decides the fate of this whole planet.
If only we did not have nations, and states, and sides.
And we pledged our allegiance to all peoples.
Instead of just one.
"While Europe was busy killing itself through the dark ages, the Arabs kept extensive libraries, saving all sorts of invaluable information while whitey was burnin' books"
True. But the problem is, the arab world STAYED where they were in the dark ages while Europe went through the reinassance and the enlightenment!
jon stewart is creative and funny. but at one point jon stewart talks about "quanitifying" statements. jon stewart never "quantifies" anything objectively. he almost always relies on audience/mob appeal.
abob- what makes this country great is that it has limited government and government separate from religious doctrine (read the Constitution)- not that it is a Democracy. The USA is actually a Republic with election by democratic vote. Of course now with the Patriot Act and the Protect America Act, our government is anything but limited- it is now able to search and spy US citizens without a warrant, detain people simply on suspicion, render people for interrogation and torture, and they do this far more than anyone realizes. This government is no longer the Republic our founding fathers created. Only by concerted efforts will we regain what we lost in the last eight years.
Mr. Feith was clearly uncomfortable with Jon Stewart's stellar point: That years before the runup to the invasion of 2003, members of the administration had already concluded the political transition would fail and the US would end up in a quagmire. And that the Bush administration was silent about that and played up the fear about Saddam wielding WMDs. So the public was misinformed, and therefore the administration by its very actions and words lost authority to prosecute what turned out to be an illegal war in Iraq.
i would agree that today, in 2008, arab culture is more primitive than ours. that doesn't mean that arabs have always had a primitive cutlure. of course the idea of having a primitive culture is completely relative.
"Primitive Arab culture"??? While Europe was busy killing itself through the dark ages, the Arabs kept extensive libraries, saving all sorts of invaluable information while whitey was burnin' books. ...dumbass.
Travis, because if he only chooses to interview people who agree with him, then he is no better than an administration that calls people unamerican, or media that only presents only Bush's side of the story. It's only fair to allow people from both sides of the argument on the show, regardless if he or his viewers don't agree. (Also regardless if one side is much more correct than the other.)
Why does Jon even have people like this on his show?