[click image]Moyers was just talking about it....











No one has to "marry" anyone else politically; no one has to embrace every tenet or belief that an anti-imperialist ally might hold. You simply have to say: "All of us, regardless of our other views, believe this truth to be self-evident: dismantling the empire will bring immediate and enormous benefits to our nation and to the world."





















If in your travels you meet the Buddha, throw him through your tv set.
—Davis Fleetwood

I've found that culture, however useful and important, is neither the foundation nor the ceiling of human experience, even if it is commonly used for walls.












I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family. So I hope to see him often here in Egypt and in the United States. —Hillary Clinton







I actually came away from the Moyers piece felling somewhat sorry for LBJ. It seems he didn't want things to go the way they did.
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm pretty sure that's the impression Moyers wanted us to get, and I don't think it is a lie anymore. You almost feel sorry for him, except that he was weighing all this on the politics of it... trying not to get howled out of office by the warmongers... except then he fucks up, does the wrong thing, and howls HIMSELF out of office. You almost could believe with this that presidents really are at the mercy of the MIC but then you have to haul yourself back up from it to remember that it's all unconstitutional, all stuff that should be fixed, no matter what the price, including assassination, and it never IS fixed. They all stay bought, or scared, and take refuge in their slot in history. Fuck them.
ReplyDeleteThey all stay bought, or scared, and take refuge in their slot in history.
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