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2004-02-05 11:41:50
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Americana in Arabic...,
2004-02-12 16:33:41
never have so few lead so many to be so wrong:
except the last time they did the same thing. Happens I've been perusing Tom Gervasi's texts on the myth of Soviet supremacy, which came in the mail last month. It outlines the exaggerations of military power of a hated enemy by certain overlapping sectors of the political sphere as the present conflict. So, via Ken Macleod, we direct you to our favorite perennial fence-hopper: Michael Lind. He recently did a bit in the Nation, 'A Tragedy of Errors', discussing the recent efforts of our diminishing, heroic band of struggling neocons to bury their heads in the flag or, having wiped their asses with it, up those. Lind was a neocon in the 80s, when he and his ilk were running around exaggerating the Soviet threat in a similar manner. For the obvious parallel as counterfactual claim we thusly turn to Bill Maher for the appropriate deflation of the last recourse of the neocons - unfulfilled promises of liberation:
"What we're learning is that, nothing was changing in Iraq - increasingly corrupt, inward looking, senile thugocracy was perpetuating itself, but also, I believe, would have fallen in the years ahead under its own weight, as governments which become that effete and rotted inside usually do".
:: posted by buermann @ 2004-02-12 16:17:55 CST |
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