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I was standing in front of a woman at that event and overheard her say of Kristol, "Oh, look how small he is!"
The rally was headlined by the convicted felon, G. Gordon Liddy. It was kind of a surreal gig, since the comedian Ben Stein also surfaced on a huge movie screen. Stein wasn't funny at all that day. He was out in L.A., urging the flag-waving DC-based crowd to support the Iraq War. Kristol, however, didn't want the U.S. invasion to stop at Iraq. In his inflammatory remarks he insisted there were other Muslim countries that George W. Bush should also target for mayhem.
On another scary level--and I know this sounds impossible--it seems that Kristol's mug is embedded in my TV set! He is ubiquitous! When he is on TV or cable, I quickly reach for my remote, but mostly to no avail. It's as if he has this uncanny ability to appear at once on all of the news/talk programs, particularly on Rupert Murdock's "Foxy News" network. However, this isn't all bad. If Kristol is hogging up the tube, it does mean that the Mother of all Neocons, Richard Perle, is being denied air time.
The truly amazing thing about Kristol from my perspective is this: He never seems to demonstrate any real feelings or visible compassion for his subject matter. None! I have never seen him show any genuine human emotion. I suspect that if there were a machine that could accurately record the true feelings of a speaker, Kristol's political rants would score zero, or even, possibly, in the minus-zero category.
America's soldiers, who are serving and dying in Iraq appear to mean little or nothing to Kristol. They are just a commodity to be used by him, like our Republic is, to push forward his agenda for more wars in the Middle East. It seems he doesn't see the Iraqi people as human beings either, and forget about the Palestinians. The late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir hatefully barked that the Palestinians "never existed." Kristol acts the same way towards them. The next time he appears on TV, watch him very closely. He reminds me of "HAL," the computer from the space film "2001," with no soul, heart, or feelings.
Then, there is this issue of a lack of media accountability. Kristol has been one of the most rabid cheerleaders for the US-led war against Iraq. He wrongly claimed, like so many of his Neocon cronies, that Iraq had WMD and ties to al Qaeda, and that "exporting democracy" to it would be a walk in the park.
Yet he has never been called to account for his asinine opinions. It's like all his idiocies go down a convenient Memory Hole. Kristol can say anything he wants. If he's wrong, it's forgotten! Sooner or later, he has to be right about something--tt's the law of averages. Then, when he is, I suppose he will be acclaimed as a prophet.
In one of the ancient Greek colonies, if a lawmaker proposed a new law, a noose was tied around his neck. If the bill didn't carry, the lawmaker was hanged. (See Will Durant's The Life of Greece.) Regrettably, we don't have a legal device such as this that would apply to agitators like Kristol. He schemed to get the US into a war that wasn't ever in our national interest. Iraq has already cost the taxpayers $100 billion (http://costofwar.com) and the lives of over 500 of our finest troops (http://lunaville.org).
The Neocon Kristol seeks only endless wars for the US. It is long past the time for the people to tell him: Hit the road, warmonger!