Charlie Rose

Stefan_vK  04/09/2009 05:26 PM Report

"There are really, you know, there are two options of

dealing with Iran. We can bomb them or you can have an effective embargo."

I honestly believe that public figures making statements like that one are a higher risk to US security and peace than strong steel being sold to Iran. Is it really a surprise that they consider developing a nuclear bomb when officials - albeit in this instance not one responsible for foreign policy - talk about attacking them?

tartufe  04/09/2009 04:05 PM Report

Cogent post winter. The real gangsters are in congress and complicit/duplicit with the real thieves at Citibank et al. Starting with Paulson and his three typed-page heist of the treasury to bailout his big bank and hedge fund cohorts at our progenies expense, a real and serious FBI, SEC et al investigation with proportional fines and imprisonment needs to happen. Perversely rewarding them is as sick as lauding bin Laden with gifts and accolades, or even giving Charles Manson equivalent accomodations in the Bahamas along side Bobby Rubin, Bernanke, Summers, and little Timmy Geithner. Systemic corruption has corroded us from within beyond repair. Is there any pol you'd buy a used car from?

winter  04/09/2009 03:03 PM Report

It may be the euphemisticized perception that organized crime has been reduced but if theres nearly 2 (T)rillion dollars of tax monies evading the authorities then it seems to me more like organized crime has evolved to become institutionalized crime and hasn't been dealt with at all.

The rest of the world has always thought American freedom is only the first line of defense for how our gangsters do business. Whomever the buck ought to stop with for that much evasion of what the middle class has to make up for is just filling their suits. They can cite successes that they're proud of but my sceptical mind tells me that, again while theres THAT much money that had to be accumulated over enough time where its escape from the treasury could only have been done because our guardians are looking the other way, they are the lines offered for public consumption. The accountability for any authority of justice that could bring the culprits down must be quite the buck passed hot potatoe. Just going in and seizing the nearly 2 trillion dollars would probably be floated as a draconian government overstepping their authority. Probably the same people who've successfully promoted the campaign to demonize government. And thats only in the Caymans??????