From the L.A. Times:
The group, which calls itself Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change, will explicitly condemn Bush's foreign policy, according to several of those who signed the document.
Also Reuters, Pandagon and Talk Left, among others.
This is pretty amazing. It sounds like this is going to be a hard group for wingnuts to lump together as having some kind of personal grudge against the adminstration, as is their tendency. Is there any precedence for this kind of thing?
Others are senior State Department officials from the Carter, Reagan and Clinton administrations and former military leaders, including retired Marine Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East under President Bush's father. Hoar is a prominent critic of the war in Iraq.
The official reaction so far is nothing, but Cliff May had this to say:
"This seems like a statement from 9/10 people [who don't see] the importance of 9/11 and the way that should have changed our thinking."
That's a very clever little slogan, Cliff, the whole 9/10 - 9/11 thing, but it doesn't change the fact that you're a douchebag.
The pre-9/11 policies were inadequate... why? Because they failed to stop one attack which cost 3000 lives? Obviously that was a major mistake and a huge tragedy, but did it warrant a shift so radical in American foreign policy that we are now widely considered to be in more danger than ever? Let's be realistic: terrorist attacks will happen. They've happened all over the world for decades, but we're the only country that decided that the one and only major attack on our soil justified turning a century of relative progress on its head.
