Dear Gypsy:
Kristol is another NeoCon tongue wagging. He brazenly contradicted Terri Gross ( and the facts) and said, "Well. the Iraqis HAVE welcomed us with flowers!"
It's the old Hitler/Goebbels routine: repeat the lie often enough and people will believe it.
I heard the whole broadcast. Her historian/scholar of the Supreme Court and his comments on Alito were cogent.
Bill Kristol is co-founder and chairman of The Project for The New American Century, which, as you have commented before on StudioEight, has as its mission the total military, economic and every other kind of dominance of the whole world.
He is a chameleon character who changes his persona to suit the situation and interviewer with whom he finds himself.
Here are some comments on his Supreme Court views:
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/23/thats-a-crime/
Interestingly ( at least to me and perhaps to you . . .), both Terri Gross and Bill Kristol are Jewish.
Comments on this particular show of Terri's were not directed at the question of support for Israel, however. It might be interesting to hear her interview Kristol when Israel was the subject.
William Kristol:
" . . . scoffs at the notion of the incompatibility of Judaism and conservative politics . . ."
An interesting book, by the way:
http://www.randomhouse.com/broadway/cat ... 0767916127
( I needed to add something-- ergo the edit . . .)
Here's one comment about Kristol with an interesting link:
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from TvNewsLIES.org
Bill Kristol is a master neocon, a heartless warmonger and an accomplished charlatan. But Bill Kristol works behind the curtain. He sets the stage and pulls the strings, while others do his dirty work. And Bill Kristol, with little fanfare or publicity, is one of the most influential architects of George W. Bush’s wars.
To know the man, you have to look behind his overt persona. Bill Kristol makes no secret of his views or his philosophy. He has never hidden his affiliation with of the Project for a New American Century PNAC), of which he is a founder. And yet, when introduced to the public, he is never, ever connected to that organization. He is always presented as the editor of the Weekly Standard, as benign an introduction as can be.
Neither Kristol nor the magazine is ever tied to PNAC by the corporate media. The dots are never connected. The truth is never told, and the facts behind the story remain hidden.
Ask yourself why, in 5 years, have the media refused to mention PNAC, and why they have given the chairman (Kristol) of this organization a public forum without disclosing his PNAC connection? What are they hiding? Perhaps they are hiding many of the smoking guns related to 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, oil, the UN, reduced freedoms for Americans and plans for an American empire built upon a fascist regime! Think about it…Jesse, Editor
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/kristol_clear.html
--Z