[lbo-talk] The NY Times Xmas Wish: Ask Santa For More Troops

[Carl Remick]

>From: Cseniornyc at aol.com
>
>The New York Times continues its inexorable shift to the right  and chooses
>Xmas eve to express its enthusiastic support for the  Bush/Cheney's demands
>for larger troops. It claims that: "Larger ground forces  are an absolute
>necessity for the sort of battles America is likely to fight  during the 
>coming
>decades" But it doesn't explain why the logical necessity of  the statement 
>...

Yes, the timing and substance of this editorial are revolting.  I was 
particularly stunned by this sentence:  "The need for more troops has for 
some time been obvious to Americans."  What has been obvious for some time 
is the need for *less usage* of US troops worldwide.

Quite a turd in the old Xmas stocking from the NY Times.

Carl

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