Tuesday, February 26, 2008

LIFE OF THE MIND - WOLFOWITZ AND THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE

POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

The American Enterprise Institute?

Oh please, this outfit is a propaganda mill posing as an academic institution.

Its appointees remind me of the actors on television headache commercials, the ones in white lab coats and carrying charts, posing as doctors or scientists, but only pitching a product.

There is no range of views at outfits like this. There are selected candidates who are then given selected briefs to promote. At best they are well-financed idea pitchmen.

It is precisely oufits like this that long advocated the toppling of Hussein.

That was good advice, wasn’t it?

Many of them now are pitching bombing Iran or toppling the government of Venezuela.