— scott ritter, exploring his personal experience in the land between the diabolical and the naïve
ps. and there’s a walk-on for the crown prince, at the end.
pps. so. eisenhower.
“Our public relations problem almost defies solution,” Eisenhower complained more than once. The problem was indeed insoluble. He spent eight years trying to persuade the world that he wanted to reduce nuclear weapons, while every day he built more of them, planned how to use them, and resisted efforts for disarmament.… it was a policy that put anticommunist ideology above human life, made by a man who would “push [his] whole stack of chips into the pot” and “hit ‘em … with everything in the bucket”; who would “shoot your enemy before he shoots you”; who believed that the U.S. could “pick itself up from the floor” and win a nuclear war, even though “everybody is going crazy,” as long as “only” 25 or 30 American cities got “shellacked” and nobody got too “hysterical.”
i guess the russians were right to hurry.
ppps. in the latest left business observer, doug henwood seems to think naomi klein’s “disaster capitalism” idea ignores the richly criminal history of the ownership class, and asks
is this really all we can do? tinker while the weather’s fair, and get ready to duck and cover on a moment’s notice? in the US we did better back in the nineteenth century, when pinkertons were shooting strikers.
lately i’m thinking more along the lines of “suicide capitalism”.…
pppps. “but it’s not!”
America will never fall in line with traitors who want a working class revolution. Americans are OK with a trinket here and a tinker there - but we will never go against our Father Capitalism who gives us our daily bread. You know what the sound of music is? You heard it today on the Holy Stret of Wall.
feh. revolutions. pain for the many via power to the few, one way or the other.
*groan*
Did we really? Or, more specifically, who is the “we” Henwood is talking about? What form does the tinkering take and who’s doing the duck&cover stuff? Does this mean I’ve been bad? If it does, I’m willing to hand back my share of whatever it is or was I have done or yet to do, just to get away from (yet another) episode of magnificently inclusive we-suckitude.
It reminds me too much of my early years at the seminary; in particular when the flagellant order came to help us understand the value of self-mortification. I told the head dude to stop doing bad things, as a much simpler solution. He said we were inherently bad. I was on kitchen duty that night, so I put some demortifier in their chili. They spent the next morning in secluded contemplation while the lay faculty ran out for kaopectate.
Good times, Sobrikay. Good times.
and since the crapper is a clearer public benefit than the seminary.…
and you know what else is crap 3.1 thats whats crap — switching to FOX until they fix the thing — color managment bs —
don’t post comments here while you’re talking on the phone! what is that. what is that.
i have never talked on the phone in my entire life — 3.1 should be shot to the planet saturn where it can revolve around a dead planet never to be seen again.
3.1 sukx that is all there is to it — you call JObs right now and tell him to fix the thing.
oh i see what yer on about. ’s’faster huh! h-t-m-l five. bigger and bigger numbers. fan-cy. ’s’new world today! with bigger #s.
it crashed … whatta joke — tomorrow Apple’s stock is going to be selling for a piece of apple pie.
scott ritter helped destroy a country. isn’t it amazing the mistakes you can make, in the right company?