Douglas Feith and the Cheney Doctrine
I have recently been reading The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind which tells the interesting tale of the Cheney Doctrine. In essence the doctrine can be boiled down to one sentence, "if there is a 1% chance of something negative happening to America, then America must do whatever it takes to prevent that from happening." A chilling notion that barely meets any standard burden of proof, I mean there is at least a 1% chance of me having a drink tonight (OK it's much higher than that) I guess it's more a 1% chance of me NOT having a drink tonight, that doesn't mean the university tavern should close... (Terrible analogy I know)...I wasn't overly concerned until I watched former undersecretary of defence (US) Douglas Feith being interviewed on The Daily Show. I've embedded both parts of the "uncut" (if it was uncut, I fail to see why there is two parts) interview, it seems to confirm Suskind's argument, especially towards the end where Feith proclaims something along the line of "Imagine what the pundits would be saying if we didn't invade Iraq and something happened..."
As Jon so eloquently puts it, I'm not entirely sure that you can invade a country based upon a "hypothetical"...
Part 1
Part 2
Labels: Douglas Feith, Iraq, Jon Stewart, Video
posted by Mark @ 5:42 PM
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