Conflagration: Check.
By way of Chris Floyd's Empire Burlesque (Ninth Circle: The Widening Gyre of Iraq's Death Spiral), I was referred to the single most comprehensive, foreboding, ominous article I have ever encountered detailing what The United States has spawned in the Middle East. Nir Rosen's latest dispatch, No Going Back, is a devastating, heartbreaking, infuriating assessment of the geopolitical mayhem wrought by America's latest ongoing vanity project. Anyone willing to look past the next U.S. election can see what is coming, and it is likely uglier than even the most pessimistic among us previously imagined.
The American invasion and occupation of what used to be Iraq (as a nation state, it no longer exists) will reverberate throughout the world until the sun throws its last spark. Any Americans - conservative, liberal and every point in between - entertaining fantasies wherein they are miraculously insulated from these reverberations are completely and utterly bankrupt of reason. At one time, we called this debilitating condition insanity. Now it is called normalcy.
I strongly urge you to take the time to read it in its entirety.
(Note: I'm working on a very tight deadline and may not be posting for a day or two.)
The American invasion and occupation of what used to be Iraq (as a nation state, it no longer exists) will reverberate throughout the world until the sun throws its last spark. Any Americans - conservative, liberal and every point in between - entertaining fantasies wherein they are miraculously insulated from these reverberations are completely and utterly bankrupt of reason. At one time, we called this debilitating condition insanity. Now it is called normalcy.
I strongly urge you to take the time to read it in its entirety.
(Note: I'm working on a very tight deadline and may not be posting for a day or two.)
posted by Arvin Hill at 9/27/2007 10:45:00 AM
7 Comments:
Any Americans - conservative, liberal and every point in between - entertaining fantasies wherein they are miraculously insulated from these reverberations are completely and utterly bankrupt of reason.
Well, that's awfully judgmental.
The American invasion and occupation of what used to be Iraq (as a nation state, it no longer exists) will reverberate throughout the world until the sun throws its last spark.
And that's just melodramatic. You're going to need to throw out some more words to support where you're going with that. Perhaps your words will need to number like the drops of November rain which sweetens the fruit?
I mean really. What do you expect when human capital is in excess? What is the state of equilibrium for you -- lazing on the porch, rocking slowly, or cutting your neighbor's throat? What's normal?
This is how a doctor lives [...] After that attack the Mahdi Army attacked his clinic
Which reminded me of this: NYT: At Many Homes, More Profit and Less Nursing.
Is it your point that we'd do them in there to make a buck? Heck, apparently, for a buck will do them in here as well.
Oh, I'm all about judgmental. Passers-by looking for a vacillation fix - on the one hand, X; on the other hand, Y - don't often find much satisfaction here. Nor does anyone else. Which, of course, you already know.
But don't worry, Joe Biden has a plan to solve all of Iraq's problems -- divide it into three different nations. Still undetermined is what to call these three nations. Some quip that the three nations should be called "Chevron", "Texaco", and "Exxon-Mobil", but others say that "regular", "premium", and "diesel" would be less... tacky. Oh, and the fact that 60% of Iraqis disagree with partition? Irrelevant. Everybody knows that asking Texaco and Exxon-Mobil to share territory is just asking for sectarian warfare!
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
Welcome, BT. Finally, a guest who knows how to dress for The Carnival.
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Ah, good ole Smilin' Joe Biden. Who can resist those blinding white teeth and the self-effacing humor. The lifetime commitment to mugging for TV cameras. The warm-but-sensible turtleneck sweater. I hear he's the life of the party at The World Economic Forum in Davos. If I can ever perfect my pediatric bone marrow sandwich, it's going to be called "The Joe Biden Special."
Call Nancy Pelosi @ 1-202-225-0100 say IMPEACH.---Mike Meyer
Yo, you still kicking? Incarcerated?
At one time, we called this debilitating condition insanity. Now it is called normalcy.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum - yet the populace willingly submit to the insane authorities. We're too addicted to consumer culture to notice or care about the ongoing slaughter.
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