Scooter Libby and Me...a great read.

[Hamlette]

http://www.alternet.org/story/46756/?page=1

The author was Libby's best friend in Junior High and High School. The author is very liberal and is now a Prof of English Lit. He wrote this as Libby was starting trial in January, 2007.

He talks about the differences between liberals and conservatives and fundamentalists like Libby. He tries to decide whether to cut off ties with Libby or stay in touch in an effort to figure out how to get along with people like Libby.

It's an excellent...if longish read. I read it when it was first written and have been thinking of it during these last few weeks. Glad I found it and read it again. Much wisdom here.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. It was good. I read it all the way through.

Quite a feat for me, given my nocturnal ADD. I wonder what the author thinks of the commutation?

[Hamlette]

2. I'd love to know, he was so conflicted, for all the right reasons

friendship, view of the world philosophy etc.

It's a story that stayed with me. I bookmarked when I read it and went back a week or two ago to find it and the link didn't work. Finally decided to google it.

I agree with him about trying to figure them out. I know I suffer from that disease. My dad was a republican who turned dem when he was in his 60s (Reagan did it) and I have this belief that if I could just understand "where they're coming from" we could talk and reason together.

But after reading John Dean's book, Conservatives Without Conscience and my philosophical essays like this I'm ready to say "they are incapable of reason. Their minds are made up and they do not want to be bothered by the facts." Sort of how I feel about religion.

Glad you liked it.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

3. I've come to the same, sad conclusion about them too

And in the case of people like Libby, it's all the more frustrating because they SHOULD know better. Libby benefited from the finest education a person could probably get in this world. Surely, he studied enough history to learn that what he and his neo-con cohorts are trying to do will not only fail, but will result in disaster. Inevitably it will cause their own destruction as we are (hopefully) seeing now. Your post led me to look for info on former neo-cons, because I'm curious if they could give some insight on what drove their thought processes before, and more importantly, what made them change. I did come across this:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17194.htm

It doesn't give any explanation of their psyches, but it clearly catalogues just what greedy psychopathic narcissists we are dealing with when it comes to the upper echelons of the neocons. It does take a certain type of person to think that way, and I'm just amazed at how such a large group of them were able to come together like that. :scared: