Help, DUers! What do we make of Marty Peretz

[CTyankee]

with his latest article in "The New Republic" titled "The Politics of Churlishness: Giving Bush his Due on Middle East Democracy."

Peretz has gone soft on Bush. Liberal are the churlish ones because we won't "see the light" of Bush's removal of Saddam Hussein. What is with this guy?

Go to www.tnr.com to read the article (you have to register first, free).

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Peretz...

Is not what he seems. Just because he's boss dog at TNR does not make him some grand progressive exemplar.

There was a lot of head-scratching and concern when he got the job.

[Cocoa]

2. i'd ask Peretz the same thing I'd ask all other war apologists

where are the WMDS?

Let's not let them get away with this nonsense, let's not let them change the subject.

I searched through this article for "wmd" and for "weapon" with no luck.

Sorry, Marty, we're not biting.

[CTyankee]

5. yeah, I noticed that omission, too

He is making an "after the fact" determination that securing democracy in the Middle East was really what Bush was all about all along. No mention of Bush's own churlishness, that of selling this war on specious grounds and then arranging for the intelligence agencies to take the blame. Peretz's mind has been bent.

[patdem]

3. Bush's due? bush fought elections in Iraq! This is not bush..it is

Sistanni's due...not bush...tell that to your republican fiends!

[Robbien]

4. The New Republic is getting less and less attention from the left

I can't think of the last time I went to their site or picked up their magazine.

[CTyankee]

6. I'm thinking of cancelling my subscription

ever since the great disappointment of Leon Wieseltier's defense of Larry Summers speech. It was stale as day old bread. I had previously thought that Wieseltier had a great mind.

[regnaD kciN]

7. Peretz has been a neo-con for years...

Alexander Cockburn has made a habit of quoting his Elephant-kissing ways under the heading "More Swill from Marty."

[CTyankee]

8. Where can I find "More Swill from Marty"?

Sounds like something I'd like to read.

Peretz used to be left of center, if I remember correctly. I stopped reading a lot of what he wrote because it always seemed to be dense in Middle East politics, esp. Israel's. This article is such a vast overreach of logic I wonder about Marty's mind.