If Mr. Ferguson, in his latest column for Newsweek titled The Incredible Shrinking Superpower, dated December 12, 2011, and his political allies weren’t so busy plotting a propaganda strategy for the attack on Iran, in the name of the safety of the world community, we might, in the ‘West’, in the name of self-interest cultivate a relationship with Mr. Putin, on the basis of political realism or cynicism, as you choose, to act as a broker for a peaceful settlement of the vexing Iran nuclear question. But then Mr. Ferguson and his allies are philosophically committed to war as the only workable solution to any given problem, no matter the cost in human life, a reflection of his defense of imperialism and it’s murderous legacy as somehow politically and ethically tenable. This essay was sharply drawn, a bristling polemic and very readable, a tribute to the rhetorical abilities of this premier political necromancer.

Political Cynic