Predictions for 2003
What does the New Year hold? Lew Rockwell asks some of the smartest people he knows.
Richard Cummings
Bush will attack Iraq. Bush will attack Iran. Bush will attack North Korea. Bush will attack Brazil. Bush will attack Zimbabwe. Bush will attack Ukraine. Bush will attack Bolivia. Bush will attack Latvia. Bush will attack Angorra. Bush will attack San Marino. Bush will attack Burkina Faso. Bush will attack Sri Lanka. Bush will attack Bangladesh. Howard Dean will announce for president. John Kerry will announce for president. John Edwards will announce for president. Joseph Lieberman will announce for president. Hillary Clinton will announce for president. Chuck Schumer will announce for president. Richard Gephardt will announce for president. Nancy Pilosi will announce for president. Wilber Mills will announce for president. Harold Stassen will announce for president. Marion Barry will announce for president. Rev. Al Sharpton will announce for president. Bush will attack Trinidad. Evan Bayh will announce.... Bush will attack.... etc. etc.
Richard Cummings [send him mail] taught international law at the Haile Selassie I University and before that, was Attorney-Advisor with the Office of General Counsel of the Near East South Asia region of U.S.A.I.D, where he was responsible for the legal work pertaining to the aid program in Israel, Jordan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is the author of a new novel, The Immortalists, as well as The Pied Piper – Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream, and the comedy, Soccer Moms From Hell. He holds a Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
Joseph R. Stromberg
1. The Feds will announce further red, orange, fuscia, and paisley "emergencies."
2. Whatever draconian measures the Feds propose to meet these "emergencies," Charles Hammer-of-the-Krauts will write that even more should be done because, after all, the government is sovereign and has every right to cut off our legs, if in its wisdom, only this will meet the threat, whatever it is.
3. Jonah Goldberg will once more display the depths of his ignorance of the history of the right wing movement in America. Paul Gottfried will respond and Goldberg will dismiss him as a crank.
4. Jonah Goldberg will be demoted to the Fashion Section of NR Online.
5. The "yoots" at antistate.com will continue to read nothing but each others’ missives and will think themselves great theoreticians as a result of this wide reading.
6. Freerepublic.com will collapse under the sheer weight of the stupidity generated there daily. It will be reborn as Fascists-R-Us.com.
7. Larry "Three-Dollar" Kudlow will demand further infusions of paper money inflation to restore prosperity.
8. Victor Davis Hanson will tell us at great length how all classical writers of the Better Sort lived for war, loved war, grooved on carnage, and indeed set war well before the various vices for which they are famous.
9. W will make incoherent statements in a peculiar form of English thought to be related to Meso-Gothic. When his constant hectoring about "terraces" is misunderstood, Americans will take out home improvement loans, thereby kick-starting the economy.
10. On high school campuses Future Farmers of America will lose ground to a new service club, Future Straussians of America.
11. Barring the arrival of new talent from the British Isles and Australia, American country music will linger in its present awful rut.
12. Every elder statesman not currently useful to the Neo-Con establishment will be accused of hateful thoughts, "racism," and failure to repudiate all American history prior to Ronald Reagan.
13. Michael Ledeen will call for Trotskyist Permanent Revolution everywhere. As a reward, he will be named head of the US-UK Occupation Regierung in Mesopotamia. His new slogan will be "Umsiedlung der Palestiner."
14. The various "wars" will go well during 2003. The bad news will come in, in 2004.
15. Sundry writers on Neo-Con websites will ride their hobby-horse of "Anti-Americanism" until the poor thing dies of exhaustion. They will find a new hobby-horse.
Joseph R. Stromberg [send him mail] is holder of the JoAnn B. Rothbard Chair in History at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and a columnist for LewRockwell.com and Antiwar.com.
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