The bare information just below is how Roger Guenveur Smith announces his amazing piece. I saw it on August 19th, the very end of his 3 week engagement, and was enthralled. He spoke in Rodney King's and other voices present when he was beaten and again in voices of the many sectors of humanity affected, then and now. The staging and lighting were brillianty directed and effective, but his acting has to be seen and felt to give justice to his technique and performance. It was one of the greatest of the many stage experiences I've had. I wish you the same. Ed RODNEY KING new work created and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith limited return engagement 20 - 29 September thursdays fridays saturdays 8 pm sunday 3 pm All tickets $10 Bootleg Theater 2220 Beverly Blvd. LACA 90057 www.bootlegtheater.org * * *
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/dowd-neocons-slither-back.h tml?nl=todaysheadlines <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/dowd-neocons-slither-back. html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120916> &emc=edit_th_20120916 Neocons Slither Back <http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/09/16/opinion/Dowd_New/Dowd_New-ar ticleInline.jpg> Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Maureen Dowd NY Times Op-Ed: Sept. 16, 2012 PAUL RYAN has not sautéed in foreign policy in his years on Capitol Hill. The 42-year-old congressman is no Middle East savant; till now, his idea of a border dispute has more likely involved Wisconsin and Illinois. Yet Ryan got up at the Values Voter Summit here on Friday and skewered the Obama administration as it struggled to manage the Middle East mess left by clumsily mixed American signals toward the Arab Spring and the disastrous legacy of war-obsessed Republicans. Ryan bemoaned the slaughter of brave dissidents in Syria. Mobs storming American embassies and consulates. Iran four years closer to gaining a nuclear weapon. Israel, our best ally in the region, treated with indifference bordering on contempt by the Obama administration. American foreign policy, he said, needs moral clarity and firmness of purpose. Ryan was moving his mouth, but the voice was the neocon puppet master Dan Senor. The hawkish Romney adviser has been secunded to manage the running mate and graft a Manichaean worldview onto the foreign affairs neophyte. A moral, muscular foreign policy; a disdain for weakness and diplomacy; a duty to invade and bomb Israels neighbors; a divine right to pre-emption its all ominously familiar. You can draw a direct line from the hyperpower manifesto of the Project for the New American Century, which the neocons, abetted by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, used to prod an insecure and uninformed president into invading Iraq a wildly misguided attempt to intimidate Arabs through the shock of overwhelming force. Hows that going for us? After 9/11, the neocons captured one Republican president who was naïve about the world. Now, amid contagious Arab rage sparked on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, they have captured another would-be Republican president and vice president, both jejeune about the world. Senor is emblematic of how much trouble America blundered into in the Middle East trillions wasted, so many lives and limbs lost because of how little we fathom the culture and sectarian politics. Were still stumbling in the dark. We not only dont know who our allies and enemies are, we dont know who our allies and enemies allies and enemies are. As the spokesman for Paul Bremer during the Iraq occupation, Senor helped perpetrate one of the biggest foreign policy bungles in American history. The clueless desert viceroys summarily disbanded the Iraqi Army, forced de-Baathification, stood frozen in denial as thugs looted ministries and museums, deluded themselves about the growing insurgency, and misled reporters with their Panglossian scenarios of progress. Off the record, Paris is burning, Senor told a group of reporters a year into the war. On the record, security and stability are returning to Iraq. Before he played ventriloquist to Ryan, Senor did the same for Romney, ratcheting up the candidates irresponsible bellicosity on the Middle East. Senor was the key adviser on Romneys disastrous trip to Israel in July, when Mittens infuriated the Palestinians by making a chuckleheaded claim about their culture. Senor got out over his skis before Romneys speech in Jerusalem, telling reporters that Mitt would say he respected Israels right to make a pre-emptive, unilateral attack on Irans nuclear facilities. While the Muslim world burned on Friday, Mitt was in New York with Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan confessing that he wears as little as possible to bed. With no global vision or historical perspective he didnt even remember during his Tampa convention to mention our troops or the years of war his party reigned over Romney is simply kowtowing to the right again. Paul Wolfowitz, an Iraq war architect, weighed in on Fox News, slimily asserting that President Obama should not be allowed to slither through without a clear position on Libya. Republicans are bananas on this one. They blame Obama for casting Hosni Mubarak overboard and contradict themselves by blaming him for not supporting the Arab Spring. One minute Romney parrots Bibi Netanyahus position on Iran, the next Obamas. Romneys cynical braying about Obama appeasement in the midst of the attack on the American diplomatic post in Libya and the murder of the brave ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was shameful. Richard Williamson, a Romney adviser, had the gall to tell The Washington Post, Theres a pretty compelling story that if you had a President Romney, youd be in a different situation. Hes right a scarier situation. If President Romney acceded to Netanyahus outrageous demand for clear red lines on Iran, this global confrontation would be a tiny foretaste of the conflagration to come. Cheney, described by Romney as a person of wisdom and judgment, is lurking. On Monday, he churlishly tried to deny President Obama credit for putting Osama in the cross hairs, cattily referring to a report that Obama had not gone to all his intelligence briefings. Well, yes. W. got briefings, like the one that warned him on Aug. 6, 2001: Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. That didnt work so well either, did it? _____ No virus found in this message. 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