Just recently, we accidentally turned onto a FOX-TV program about the
early-day apprenticeships of former vice-president, Dick Cheney, former
secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld and economist Arthur Laffer,
during the presidency of Gerald Ford. It was disgusting seeing these
notorious, criminal and unprosecuted ex-politicians, Cheney and
Rumsfeld, playing the role of big shots as they began their ascent to
becoming big-time politicians and being architects, in the regime of
Bush II, of the most disastrous foreign policy in American history. Of
course, the extremist rightist station, FOX, presented these
Neanderthals as politicians to be respected and fawned over, even
knowing that these two influential members of the former regime are
largely responsible for much of the geopolitical mess that the United
States is mired in, today, not that the present rule of Obama is any
better, nor has any real intent of being anything other than a replica
of the regime that they replaced.
[First posted on Commoner on 12/28/14; revised on 12/29/14.]
