Perhaps the reactionary forces left over from the disgraced, banished Bush Regime were buoyed today by Obama naming rubber stamp Republican zombie John McHugh (R-NY) Secretary of the Army. With an even more conservative voting record than raving right-wing sociopaths like Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Brian Bilbray (R-CA) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL), McHugh has opposed virtually every single initiative Obama has taken to rescue the country from 8 years of Republican misrule (although he supposedly announced yesterday that he favors scrapping the heinous Don't Ask Don't Tell policy that has become a cornerstone of modern Republicanism, as key to the definition of the party as racism, xenophobia, union-bashing, and corporate ass-licking). It looks like this inspired war criminal and Israeli spy Paul Wolfowitz, currently in hiding at the extremist "think" tank, AEI, to pen an OpEd for a New York-based GOP party organ.Writing of the expectations for President Obama's speech in Cairo, Wolfowitz hopes that the president won't "walk away from what President George W. Bush called 'the freedom agenda.' That would be a great mistake for the U.S. and for the Muslim world." Apparently Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the most disastrous foreign policies in the history of the United States, thinks he knows what the "Muslim world" needs. He then has the colossal hubris to go on to make a series of recommendations to the president: he should insult his Egyptian hosts and the entire Muslim world by pointing out their less than satisfactory record on human rights and women's rights, and insisting that their standard of elections aren't up to the U.S. model-- think about the 2000 presidential decision-- and then chastise them for church burnings, rub their noses in the dirt of U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and make it clear that he plans to follow in George Bush's footsteps.Like I said, Wolfowitz is hiding out at the American Enterprise Institute these days, shielded from any exposure to reality whatsoever. I'd like to suggest that he get out more-- maybe make a trip to a couple of Arab countries and chat with some people there. Maybe he could do some fashion consulting while he's over there:

Labels: Barack Obama's trip to Egypt, Wolfowitz