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14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - The 'Good' War · 0 replies · +1 points

Raimondo's ignorance of the history of the "Eastern Theater" is apparent. The Soviets weathered Nazi Germany's high tide in the winter campaigns of '41 entirely entirely of their own devices, as they would do subsequently at Stalingrad. So called Anglo/American aid did not begin arriving in any significant quantity until mid1943; part of the reason for stalling the aid and the opening of Western Front (aka the Normandy landings) was precisely to have Hitler bleed the Russians as much as possible without actually provoking Stalin to unilaterally negotiate a ceasefire with him. By that point Germany was doomed and all of the subsequent aid was really some pointless negotiating tidbit thrown Stalin at Teheran and Yalta to keep him from stomping out.

Raimondo is likewise dreaming that the Reich would not have outlived Hitler. The Germans were enthralled with Nazism, and there were plenty of nazis like Speer and Heyderich, with intelligence and organizational skills to maintain a government indefinitely. Germany's influence would have spread across the Channel and across the Ocean and the demise of the Republic that Raimondo bemoans at length would have occurred before he was even born.

The problem with playing what-if games is that they tend to expose one's ideological underpinnings for all to see.

14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - In Bush's Footsteps · 0 replies · +1 points

In Bathtub Admirals , Huber shows himself to be keenly perseptive about
Washingtonian stagecraft especially as it is plied around the Pentagon.
Yet he seems to be clamorously blind when it comes to call the
Administration for its theatricality around its intentions in
Afghanistan.

Go back and read your Desraeli and Brzezhinsky
and bone up on the "Great Game", man ! Why do you really think they
have to stay in Afghanistan for 10 years? To invade Central Asia and
ultimately , Russia and then China will take a lot of big time
preparation, not to mention the pipeline that has to be built in the
mean time.

And what is all this activity in the Caucauses
about anyway ? Why are these Chechen "rebels" so much more adept than
any of the "terrorist" out there in front of the American forces. That
takes money , the kind of money that even the House of Saud dosn't
command. That takes Washington and Wall Street money, by way of the
City of London and their Berezovsky - like stooges. What iff the
Russians call their bluff, ultimately, and all this leads to WW3 ? Well
no better way to clear away 4 or 5 billion for some Lebensraum in the
aftermath , that you can be certain they are quite prepared for , also.

14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - War? What War? · 0 replies · +1 points

A truely pointless exercise in semantic futility here. The Left is as extinct in the US of A as the Carolina Parakeet and for most as equally meaningless a term. The Left in American history was the Woblies, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene Debs, Martin Luther King and the many thousands that marched, fought and died along with them. I salute their memory, and honoring their ideals, no longer pay taxes or vote in this Abomination I live in. And when and if I find individuals who hold those ideals above their own survival I will join them. You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs

14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - A Balkans Belgium? · 0 replies · +1 points

@realityzone
There seems to be this shadow economy that is not a result of trade,
industry or even drugs. It does not shrink or wane in the face of
decline in every conceivable resource or measure of wealth in society
but actually grows and is powerful enough to keep the conventional
economic edifice from crumbling , which should really have already
happened. It seems to be too big to ascribe to a decadent clan of
pedophiliac race horse breeders

14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - The Circle Cannot Hold · 0 replies · +1 points

Just as I was about overcome with all the anti-vegan calumny and
Perrier-splashed ennui being traded about on all these Antiwars and
Aternets, and was resigning myself, henceforth, to mere TV
existentialism, I managed to bump into Robert D. Kaplan's tonic
ascerbidity. Ahhhh. Now once more unto the breach.....

14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - The Honduran Drama · 0 replies · +1 points

Now that Venezuala's 'bolivarian' economics has been joined on the "dustbin of history" to Cuba's, and Nicaragua's and Bolivia's likewise "crackpot" economics, and since I gather that Wall Street "Private Enterprise" is also now somewhat out of favor, I shudder to ask: "Where, prey, are those footsteps of economic good sense that we may follow in, Oh Wise One ?"

14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Going Nowhere Fast in ... · 0 replies · +1 points

You can call it whatever, you like, 4th gen or maybe 5.2 gen - the fact remains - this is your creation and your own particular doom. These "terrorists" are there for you thanks to your idiotic nurture and support of them just so that you could have the satisfaction of poking the russians in the eye in afghanistan - when it was still possible, in fact likely, that it may have become a slightly more civilized country albeit of a nominally socialist variety. The russians had, at great cost to themselves, actually brought terrorism there under control to the point where their client regime in Kabul would actually outlast them, the Soviet Union, by a couple of years. But even after the russians withdrew, you continued pouring stingers and $$ to Hekmatyar, bin Laden and associates through your proxy stooges in Pakistan until Najib was dangling from a rope with his testicles in his mouth and educated women, teachers and doctors mostly, were being raped, mutilated and tortured to death by your proteges who, now, it seems have decided to lower their sights on you, their mentor and benefactor. These guys got no respect or gratitude, I tell ya ! Anyway, the chickens are coming home (ever closer) to roost. Enjoy !

14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Iran’s Green Revolut... · 0 replies · +1 points

clinging to obscure statistical minutia borders on specious rather than
any compeling evidence of massive electoral misconduct. Didn't the
pre-election Ballen/Doherty poll actually predict an outcome similiar
to the obtained results for mo_us.avi ? Weird how these "color"
revolutions always have that Made-in -USA flavor. What about those
"kids" currently demonstrating in Georgia, BTW, against that coat tie
chewing Sak (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syKMsDS2OzE)" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syKMsDS2OzE) they have to endure over there ... What ? all that silence is deafening !

14 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Dream Big! Become an I... · 0 replies · +2 points

I could really use a job right about now. Where would I apply ?
Are these positions listed in the (un)Employment Office ?

14 years ago @ Comment on Antiwar.com... - Comment on <i>Ma... · 0 replies · +1 points

of course the fact that the nazi's manifesto and rise to power was explicitly predicated on some kind of apocalyptic struggle with the communists (aka jews, homos, sub-human slavs, etc) does not warrant consideration whether the likely breakout of war on the eastern front would be anything but welcome to the western powers. Hitler's Germany would be western capitalism's agent of entirely justified boundless wrath against those bastard bolsheviks. The inferno that would follow , added to the then-already-ongoing slaughter in China, would only be in the west's best interests and would certainly not be labeled as unnecessary or the greatest carnage history had ever seen. This direction of thinking is evident in more current "events"