| Submit your comments on this article |
| Fifth Column |
| Matthews: U.S. in Iraq No Better Than 'Colonial Masters' |
| 2006-05-22 |
| In one fell segment, Chris Matthews pulled back the curtain and revealed his view of America's foreign policy intentions as fundamentally pernicious. For him, the United States in Iraq is no better than a 'colonial master.' Matthews' guest on this evening's 'Hardball' was John Batiste, one of the former generals calling for Donald Rumsfeld's removal as Secretary of Defense. The topic at hand was the failure to anticipate the insurgency with which we have been been faced in Iraq. Describing the miscalculation, Matthews said: "It's like the British coming in to New York at the beginning of the Revolution and saying they weren't going to face any resistance." A bit later, he added: "Every Third World country, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, has thrown off its colonial masters, because they don't want outsiders telling them what to do. And we didn't think we would face that reality in Iraq? Why didn't they think there wasn't going to be a resistance?" Batiste was happy to second Matthews' notion: "I don't think they studied the past." Apparently Matthews doesn't believe that America's goal is to help establish a democracy in Iraq. He does not distinguish between the aim of the United States in Iraq and the goal of the the British attempting to crush a democratic a revolution in America. We are nothing but 'colonial masters.' This is the profoundly negative view of America harbored by Matthews. One suspects it is a view shared by many in the MSM and the Democratic party. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 I wrote this jackass off as a treasonous scumbag - even by MSM standards - during the 1st battle of Fallujah. During his show ("Chris Matthews Show", not "Hardball"), he took a call from an NBC correspondent in Iraq, who reported that the Marines were finding the Fallujah assault to be difficult, and were taking heavy casualties. As long as I live, I will never forget (or forgive) the expression on that bastard's face when he heard this...it was barely restrained glee. He was visibly quivering with joy at the thought that American servicemen were dying in droves. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2006-05-22 22:51 |
| #6 Colonialism (at least the European variety) expired in the 60's with communist-backed Freedom Fighters™ sweeping the Europeans from Africa and Asia. So, forty years later, most of the colonial infrastructure has finally rundown and most of the countries have degenerated into third-world pigsties enlivened by endless internecine warfare with no one, certainly not impotent prigs like Mathews, to take up the "white man's burden." |
| Posted by: Elmuth Wheater2571 2006-05-22 22:06 |
| #5 And what did the colonialists ever do for the colonials? Except for laws, sewers, good roads, an end to slavery, the end of suttee, and the introduction of real medicine? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-05-22 21:48 |
| #4 Hey! He was rated very highly for his 6 viewers! Be nice! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-05-22 21:35 |
| #3 Ever since he caught malaria in Nigeria he's been strange. Look for a brain implant. 8^) |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-05-22 21:24 |
| #2 I guess that make GW Bush the king. Off with Matthews head! |
| Posted by: ed 2006-05-22 20:37 |
| #1 Is that asshat still on? |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2006-05-22 20:33 |