11-06-2010, 02:30 PM
I haven't read this thread in its entirety, so I apologize if the following thoughts have been offered earlier.
The practical impact of the Thomas comments has been to deflect public attention from Israel's war crime.
And so we are left to conclude that Ms. Thomas, witting or not, is an accessory to that crime.
"Question the timing" is to the investigators of intelligence operations what "follow the money" was to the investigators of Watergate -- which itself was an intel op, by the by.
The practical impact of the Thomas comments has been to deflect public attention from Israel's war crime.
And so we are left to conclude that Ms. Thomas, witting or not, is an accessory to that crime.
"Question the timing" is to the investigators of intelligence operations what "follow the money" was to the investigators of Watergate -- which itself was an intel op, by the by.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene