Ted Turner: Stuck in the 60′s
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005Ted Turner gave a speech Monday at a university, and it sounds like he’s stuck in a time-warp:
Turner said the situation in Iraq is serious but not hopeless. He raised concerns about global overpopulation, poverty and hunger.
He also called for nuclear disarmament.
He said the U.S. and Russia still have thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at each other on a “hair trigger.” He said if he were in charge _ making it clear he wasn’t and never would be _ “we’d be rid of them.”
He warned that a nuclear war could “kill everything on the planet” and said it could take place in an afternoon. Turner said he was afraid someone in power could make the mistake to launch a nuclear war, including President Bush, based on his previous decisions.
“You have to question … the president on a lot of decisions he’s made,” Turner said. “He might just think launching those weapons would be a good thing to do. … He thought Iraq was.”
Let’s see: nuclear disarmament, world hunger, poverty, and overpopulation. Yep, looks like Mr. Turner has taken a trip in the Way-Back Machine to the mid-1960′s.
Turner said war is an outdated form of diplomacy that has stopped working.
“You would think that we would have learned that in Vietnam,” he said.
Ted, Ted, Ted. War is not a form of diplomacy. War is a result of the failure of diplomacy. As for what we should and should not have learned from Vietnam, what we should have learned is that when you allow the politicians to micro-manage the conduct of a war, you’re going to lose and you’re going to lose big. The Bush Administration has learned this lesson, as it demonstrates by allowing the military to run the war.
Things are becoming increasingly globalized, he said, and if humanity is going to survive, its members are going to have to work together.
“We are going to survive together, or we are going to perish together,” he said.
Exactly why we are fighting the War on Terror. Radical Islamofascists do not want to work with anyone, they want to kill anyone who doesn’t live and worship they same way they do.
I wish that I had so much money that I did not have to live in reality.
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November 29th, 2005 at 2:51 pm
I…think maybe Ted has been sniffing the fumes from Jane’s GreenFuel protest bus.
All aboard, Mr Peabody.
– MuscleDaddy