Keep The Feith
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith is on stage at the Ford Hall Forum* tonight. I get to moderate. Old South Meeting House on Washington Street, 6:30 p.m. Expect critics. His book, “War and Decision” is an excellent, highly readable narrative of the development of war policy post-9/11, with a lot of the history leading up to it. No excuses, but a lot of gotcha on modern myths, distortions and conveniently forgotten details regarding Saddam Hussein and the invasion and occupation of Iraq. The forum’s free. All book proceeds go to organizations serving war veterans and their families.
* List of priors back to 1908 includes Winston Churchill, Isaac Asimov, Larry Flynt, Al Sharpton, Henry Kissinger, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Barbara Tuchman, Margaret Meade, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Thomas Mann, Bertrand Russell, Clarence Darrow and many others. The names and their topics make interesting reading. A walk through a lot of the major issues of the past century.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:05 am on Thursday, October 23, 2008
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October 23rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Damn! I wish I had known. I would have stayed in town after work to hear him speak. War and Decision is not a light read, I’ve been working on it for a couple of months. It’s exhaustively foot noted and has links to on line resources with original documents. It’s required reading for anyone who wants to have an opinion on the war.
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Evening went very well … almost disappointingly so … largely genteel, earnest and thoughtful crowd, with a couple of questioners remarking they utterly disagreed but having heard from Feith, they understood the thinking that led to the war. The whole thing, in Boston’s Old South Meeting House where the Sons of Liberty met, could have been painted by Norman Rockwell. Hey Code Pink … you’re slacking! Keep it up and you’ll restore my faith in the ability of the American people to engage in civil discourse.
Will post more later with vid links and content.