Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Andrew Sullivan discusses the following, rather odd quote from Howard Dean on Hardball.
Also, we have less-fewer levers much the key, I believe, to Iran is pressure through the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons. We need to use that leverage with the Soviet Union and it may require us to buying the equipment the Soviet Union was ultimately going to sell to Iran to prevent Iran from them developing nuclear weapons.
Granted, Chris Matthews is what one might call a major league asshole. I saw some of this interview and thought he was being a real prime one by pestering Dean about his getting excused from the Vietnam draft: he had a back problem, he had an obligation to mention it before someone drafted him and strapped a 50 lb radio to his back, and no, getting that waiver doesn't oblige him to feel guilty that he didn't lie to his govt (60 seconds of Chris Matthews is about as much as I can take per annum). But anyway . . .
Here's our governor referring to Russia as the Soviet Union. He's clearly a man of real intelligence, but gosh that's a silly thing to do. Next time someone points to Dubya's verbal ineptitude as a reason to think him dumb ask yourself what you'd think if Dean said something just as nonsensical. He just did.
Also, we have less-fewer levers much the key, I believe, to Iran is pressure through the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons. We need to use that leverage with the Soviet Union and it may require us to buying the equipment the Soviet Union was ultimately going to sell to Iran to prevent Iran from them developing nuclear weapons.
Granted, Chris Matthews is what one might call a major league asshole. I saw some of this interview and thought he was being a real prime one by pestering Dean about his getting excused from the Vietnam draft: he had a back problem, he had an obligation to mention it before someone drafted him and strapped a 50 lb radio to his back, and no, getting that waiver doesn't oblige him to feel guilty that he didn't lie to his govt (60 seconds of Chris Matthews is about as much as I can take per annum). But anyway . . .
Here's our governor referring to Russia as the Soviet Union. He's clearly a man of real intelligence, but gosh that's a silly thing to do. Next time someone points to Dubya's verbal ineptitude as a reason to think him dumb ask yourself what you'd think if Dean said something just as nonsensical. He just did.
