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August 24, 2006

Stanley Kurtz Catapults the Propaganda

by AltHippo @ 10:38 am. Filed under propaganda

NRO:

Iran is watching us, and if the message coming out of the election is that the country wants a Democrat-run foreign policy, Iran will know that it has a free hand to race toward nukes in the two years before the next presidential election. Tim Chapman’s piece today on the Santorum race bears this out.

On the other hand, I wonder what message the folks who run the government, who had other priorities when called to serve during Viet Nam, say to folks overseas about American resolve.

Update: I was so anxious to get in the “other priorities” bit, that I forgot point out the fictitious nature of Kurtz’s quote. And, maybe it’s so obvious that I don’t need to say anything. But, I will anyway. Since Kurtz doesn’t quote anyone connected with the Democratic Party, his belief that they’d give Iran the greenlight to go nukular must be based on his gut instinct.

I’ve never liked the expression “gut instinct”, at least when it’s applied to facts or situations that could be verified. Kurtz could look at the historical record and ask whether nuclear proliferation is correlated with Democrat/Republican in power. Why do that, though, when he can just say that “Iran will know that it has a free hand to race toward nukes” because Republicans, moi macho.

As an aside I’d like to point out that people who use fear mongering to manipulate people for political ends are objectively disgusting. Or, at least my gut tells me so.

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One Response to “Stanley Kurtz Catapults the Propaganda”

  1. Bulworth Says:
    August 24th, 2006 at 12:10 pm

    Yeah, and with U.S. forces bogged down in Iraq, Iran will know it has a free hand to race toward nukes…

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