Been There

In our age of instant analysis and experts who haven't lived long enough or been anywhere to give depth and perspective to their "expertise," it's certainly worthwhile to bend an ear to someone who has been on the front lines of reporting and political thought for long enough to know history by having some.

I've been reading Robert Scheer since the late 1960s, and his new interview with Amy Goodman is the best possible short seminar in foreign policy history and the U.S. presidency since World War II. If you read just one piece on foreign policy this month, this is the one.

Scheer also points out that amidst all the U.S. hysteria over North Korea firing some missiles, the most important of which didn't work, there was near total silence this weekend when India tested missiles capable of hitting China.

India is a nuclear power, and the Bush administration has given them a go-ahead to expand their capability and arsenal, and join the U.S. in kissing off international non-proliferation agreements. But India and Pakistan, as Scheer points out, are more likely to start a nuclear war than North Korea. Just another indication of the criminal foolishness of the neocons/Bushites, and their threat to the future.