Obviously I wasn’t there, but when the guy you’re ostensibly rescuing from the mob immediately says you kidnapped him, and your word has proven to be suspect about previous foreign adventures, do you think just saying such a claim is nonsense will really quiet the critics?
I learned something in that latter article, too; the guy who’s the Undersecretary of State for Latin America used to be an aide to Jesse Helms, former Senator (R-NC), who never saw a dime of foreign aid he thought was well spent. Odd choice, although no more odd than Elliott Abrams, John Poindexter and John Negroponte.
Update: Billmon at the Whiskey Bar has a much more detailed analysis, including a little background on Roger Noriega, the former Helmsman.
things that make you go hhhmmmmm … (and not in a good way)
That’s the problem; I’m immediately distrustful of the Administration’s motives and methods. I don’t like feeling this way, but I do.
Criminal Editing?
Both Teresa Nielsen Hayden and Linkmeister have must-read opinion essays on the Treasury Department’s warning to “publishers they may face grave legal consequences for editing manuscripts from Iran and other disfavored nations, on the ground that su…
what is soooo strange is that this stuff is almost expected nowadays, huh???
So sad..