Comments on: Great Games …

By: admin

admin — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 01:43:27 +0000

@ VXXC Grist for your mill.

By: Psykonomist

Psykonomist — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:24:44 +0000

Cowardly or complicit?

By: VXXC

VXXC — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:21:53 +0000

I know of this man. He is Bandar, who as ambassador bought Washington and it’s surrounding envrions, he was also fondly known as “Bandar Bush” by the estimable Bush family. This is a name already known to Americans who remember. Not quite so fondly.

Frankly on the evening of Sept 11th, instead of sharing a cigar Bush should have shot him personally. Certainly the Marines wouldn’t have objected. But Bush was a coward.

The Bush’s disgrace will follow them forever, and I served in war under both Presidents.

As will the disgrace of all the whores he bought, who have stayed bought. This being their idea of Honor.

Louis Freeh remarked in his memoirs that Bandar set the Best Table in Washington. I do not think Director Freeh meant it kindly. But I am not kindly minded in these matters, I could be wrong.

I don’t see world war coming from this, although it’s a possibility. You see Putin is a MAN.
Would that we had one.

But I wouldn’t mind if it did. And yes I’ll muster. I’m just not feeling kindly still about the entire affair.

We.Will.Have.Our.Hour.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:58:48 +0000

“It seems pretty obvious that Al Qaeda or one of its allies released the poison gas, Assad had no reason to do so.” — My guideline is the Efficient Propaganda Hypothesis: Under conditions of modern professionalized State organization, all politically relevant information is reduced to noise.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:29:18 +0000

Much to agree with here, but I have to side with j. ont. on the cultural question — decadence can be an extreme aesthetic stimulus.

By: j. ont.

j. ont. — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:03:48 +0000

No that it really matters, but the comment about “art since 1914″ is a little bizarre to me. Post-WWII maybe, but WWI? Are you saying the whole modernism thing wasn’t worthy of note? Because regardless of its aesthetic quality – whatever that means – or what you may think of it, it is undeniably of significant influence. And as far as the people behind it… mostly German, Swiss, Viennese, with the occasional Italian thrown in.

By: Psykonomist

Psykonomist — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:55:21 +0000

The Austro-Hungarian faction would have won if not for the extra weight of America. I wonder how much more pleasant the 20th century might have been.

China has been paying a much better long game than the west for some time. The question is whether or not they have begun to play their hand too early, but I don’t know if it matters. The primary concern for the US are all those dollars floating around internationally. China has begun to spend their portion, much to the astonishment of “the good ol’ boys” populating Average America.

Re: “And to top it off, it murdered European civilization, which has produced virtually no art, music or literature of note since 1914.”

Whatever that means.

By: Lesser Bull

Lesser Bull — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:37:25 +0000

Me.

Britain and France would have come out ahead if America weren’t waiting in the wings (the actual British and French people, not so much).

I don’t see China as an actual successor, so yes, I’d see the Pax Americana coming out even stronger from blowing everything up. Though I don’t actually see that happening just yet.

By: bob sykes

bob sykes — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:07:26 +0000

So, as in 1914, marginalized lunatics precipitate a crisis and the utterly stupid leaders of major powers lead us into a war that will serve no one’s interests.

WWI destroyed the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman and Russia empires and mortally wounded the British and French empires. It also unleashed nearly a century of communist terror and bred German, Italian and Japanese fascism. And to top it off, it murdered European civilization, which has produced virtually no art, music or literature of note since 1914.

If we do get a large regional or even world war, does anyone (besides the idiots who rule us) believe that the American empire and Pax Americana will survive it?

It seems pretty obvious that Al Qaeda or one of its allies released the poison gas, Assad had no reason to do so.