The Big Whorehouse On The Potomac

Vdare.com by Paul Craig Roberts | Jul. 4, 2009 (News Analysis)

America would be better off if the Washington Post whored for lobbyists than for the US Imperial State, which has failed to adjust its imperial ambitions to its bankruptcy. As an example of its whoring for US Imperialism, on July 2, the Washington Post reported President Obama’s claim that Russian Prime Minister Putin is a person who lives partly in the past, with "one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new."
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by James Canning - Jul. 4, 2009

Great comment. The Washington Post has indeed whored in support of the idiotic squandering of trillions of US taxpayer dollars on useless weapons systems and unnecessary wars. The US would be much better off if US foreign policy toward the Middle East was formulated by Russia, is the thrust of the argument.

The Washington Post has whored and continues to whore in support of the idiotic military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan which are squandering trillions of dollars. The primary problem in the Middle East is the continuing oppression of the Palestinians by the Israels, an oppression cheered on by the Washington Post (even though it will result in catastrophe for Israel itself).