The New Game Plan
Nov 14th, 2007 at 5:54 pm by Susie
Why is it that Eric Alterman knows this and the New York Times doesn’t?
I got a letter the other day from a faculty member at the University of Maryland’s overseas division in Europe. UM is the primary university providing classes for U.S. service members abroad.
Here it is: “The reason that I am writing today is to inform you of something rather unsettling. Last weekend, we had a Europe-wide faculty meeting at our headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. At that meeting, we were told that the U of MD military education contracts will be expanding soon to Iraq, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Djibouti, and other locations in the Middle East and Africa. This comes as no surprise.
“What is startling is that the U.S. military has also asked us to prepare a bid for educational programs in IRAN and SYRIA (and, oddly enough, France — where we have had no presence since NATO was expelled in 1967 — probably a function of the new conservative government there). We will be bidding on an education contract to these locations at the end of November.
“This is a truly ominous development. The U of MD overseas program follows the military around the world — thus clearly the contingencies for an occupation of several Middle Eastern countries is not only being contemplated, but actually set up.”
Could someone with an expense account from a major media corporation still interested in journalism please look into this?
Well, Susie, you and I both know that Cheney has long been planning his war on Iran.
I feel like I should make a snarky comment about us invading France, too, but somehow I can’t make myself do it. Holy hell.
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This also must mean that Bushco intends to reign beyond January 2009.
Cancelled elections due to a state of emergency, perhaps?
Syria??? How will we ever get into Syria? It’s starting to be the case that anyone we threaten can legitimately ask us, “Oh, yeah? You and what army?”
Izquierdo — No need to cancel the election. It’s easy enough to steal it. No need for Bush to stay on, either. Cheney can just stay in his bunker when the bombs start flying and serve the next Republican president, whoever he is. Watch Rudy strut while Cheney rules.
As far as I know, there’s no constitutional prohibition against serving as VP as many times as you want. The office used to be so undesirable, why would anyone ever have bothered to prohibit it? It’s just that, prior to Cheney, nobody would have wanted to. Cheney really opened up some new territory here. And he might be in no hurry to leave it.