Where are you going? Get back here! - one of The Usual Suspects
The indifference of the US public to serious discussion of
foreign or security affairs, and the negligence and ideological rigidity of the
US media and policy community make searching debate on such issues
extremely difficult, and allow such manipulation to succeed.
What does this ignorant idiot think has been going on in this country since 9/11- -and long before that? He thinks the US public had no idea where the ME and Iraq were during the Gulf War? And why we were there?
Does he think we had no idea where Europe was during the early 1940's when we were over there saving your butts?
How many British day laborers could discuss world politics?
Rather condescending. But I'd say he really illustrates his own ignorance.
which, like the Israeli lobby, is deeply intertwined with the Bush Administration.
Now I find that a bit surprising. Evidence? Jews tend to be liberal and Democrats. They tend to entwine around the Democratic Party, not the Republican Party. And particularly not someone like Bush. They would vomit at the thought.
And if THAT thesis is wrong, that whole thesis falls apart. He pegged his entire argument on it.
He admits this here:
If on top of this the Republicans can permanently woo the Jewish vote away from the Democrats
Despite this, the demand for the suppression
of anti-Israeli publications, broadcasts and activities has been widely echoed
in the US media.
I must have been sleeping for the last year, thames. I don't remember a SINGLE thing along that line. Not one.
Seems to me you Europeans were quite happy to have the US intervene in the Balkans- -your own backyard. You sat and watched that mess for at least a year without doing a thing. You had the capability. Why didn't you? Seems to me you have no problem with US intervention- -as long as you benefit.
Tough. You don't get to call this shot.
And even if growth resumes, the transformation
of the economy is almost certain to continue. This will mean the incomes of
the 'middle classes' (which in American terminology includes the working
proletariat) will continue to decline and the gap between them and the
plutocracy will continue to increase.
Now that's rather stupid. This guy knows what technological developments are coming and what their effects will be? WOW! So did he predict the computer revolution and the internet and the web 40 years ago?
but most German people in 1914 would at least have been able to find France on a map.
I know he wants to assume we are a bunch of ignorant savages- -but we're not. Did he fail to notice that the US is a magnet for students from foreign countries? They come here to get dumb?
Frankly, while there is something worthwhile in that article, much of it impresses me as wild conjecture and allegation. The parts that aren't simply false.
And it impresses me as a rant by a European pissed off because the sun now does set on the British Empire. And pretty quickly too. |
