[Dean's World] Aziz P: Gore withdrawal

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Posted by Aziz P:
Gore withdrawal
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1149521068.shtml


   I am sure you all are anxiously waiting my next Gore post, leading up
   to the inevitable "Saviour/messiah" declaration. After all, Gore
   invented the Internet and the Internet is the bloodstream of the
   Singularity... However, Singularity is a way off yet. So there are
   still some messy details to sort out in the interim. For example:
   Iraq.

   With respect to withdrawal from Iraq, [1]this is Gore's position (on
   ABC news):

     "I would pursue the twin objectives of trying to withdraw our
     forces as quickly as we possibly can, while at the same time
     minimizing the risk that we'll make the mess over there even worse
     and raise even higher the danger of civil war," Gore said.

     Dismissing calls for any deadline, Gore added, "It's possible that
     setting a deadline could set in motion forces that would make it
     even worse. I think that we should analyze that very carefully. My
     guess is that a deadline is probably not the right approach; ....

   It is worth noting that any serious and balanced analysis of Gore's
   record as a classical liberal/policy hawk would conclude that he would
   find the [2]Euston Manifesto quite appealing. If I had his email
   address I'd email him the link myself (It's highly unlikely that any
   of [3]my pro-Euston diaries are going to get recommended to the Daily
   Kos front page and catch his attention, after all :)

   The [4]video of Gore's appearance on ABC has also been posted online.

   It should be noted that Gore is being absolutely consistent. Of this,
   pro-Iraq war liberal Peter Beinart (TNR magazine) said [5]in an
   interview with Kevin Drum:

     Anything one writes deserves to be judged by itself. The Democratic
     Party nominated someone in 2004 who had been flat wrong in his
     opposition to the Gulf War in 1991, I think most people would
     acknowledge that. Many people who were very prominent figures in
     the Democratic foreign policy debate and the Democratic Party in
     general--most of the people who were there at that time in 1991
     were wrong about that. The vast majority of the party was wrong,
     and yet it still seems to me that we have things to learn from
     people like Sam Nunn or John Kerry. If you were to go from the Gulf
     War through Kosovo and Iraq, you would find that a large number of
     people in every facet of the liberal Democratic universe were
     wrong, on at least one of those wars. Very, very few people were
     right about all three of them. The people who were--and I think Al
     Gore is in this category--deserve a significant amount of credit,
     but the truth of the matter is, if you were looking for an
     untainted record, you would find very few people.

   (and FWIW - the architects of the Internet themselves [6]credit Gore
   with it's creation.)

References

   1. http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/Politics/story?id=2037158&page=3
   2. http://dean2004.blogspot.com/2006/04/euston-manifesto.html
   3. http://www.dailykos.com/tag/Euston%20Manifesto
   4. http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2037865
   5. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_05/008907.php
   6. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/10/02/net_builders_kahn_cerf_recognise/