He'll do his job as a good little comprador and blame the Iranians for the bombs mangling the people of the great cities of Persian the greatest destruction of the Iranian highlands ever, even worse than the Mongol invasion.

Excellent, all is proceeding according to Plan.

These are America's finest young people, who have come to embody most perfectly the ideals of our society as it is today, yes?

The key decisive fact of the social and ideological conflicts of our time is this, that it has nothing to do with "red" and "blue", and the definitions of "right" and "left" generally used make them useless. Rather it is the conflict between hegemony and its discontents, and hegemony, being what it is, gets to label its discontents as it likes. When the discontent takes form as a insurgent political candidacy, the label is "unelectable", our anonymous and opaque Guardian Council decreeing that we must "go with a winner", and refuses to offer a substantive definition of electable for good reason: the only meaningful definition is "viewed by hegemony as a reliable defender of its interests and loyal servant to its commands."

The American Military and most of the American Government have a very good idea what' going on, because they're the ones doing the goings on. It's the American people that don't have a good understanding ab0out what's going on, and that's part of the very good idea of what's going on that the Military and Government have.

A nation whose new icon is Pepper-Spray Cop has little grounds for lecturing others on liberty and human rights.

This just serves to reiterate how hopelessly in the dark we ordinary people are. Somebody's lying, and we have no way of identifying who the liars are. This is only going to be made worse with passage of the pending "intellectual property rights" legislation on the Hill in DC, which will compel the shutting down of the entire internet presence of any website accused of including any "pirated intellectual property" of any party. That essentially spells the end of all but totally centrally controlled content from ever appearing on any website that wishes to remain in business, it represents the end of everything from Facebook and Twitter to all manner of blogs, to the most indispensable internet resource for popular resistance and alternatives to hegemonically-controlled media, YouTube.

What a tangled mess, and of course Uncle Sam wants to dive right in head first, so we can "stand tall" and "show leadership" with "full spectrum dominance". Oy.

And, for extra bonus points, the question raised by this:

"Poisonous teargas that may only be used in war was mixed in with the regular teargas, it was five times thicker then normal and Tahrir Square had visibility of less then two feet a great deal of the time. Over a dozen protesters were murdered by the gas."

is:

"What is the source of this special poisonous gas the Egyptian 'security forces' are using on its own people, killing dozens of them?"

Do we have any guesses?

I also read somewhere that not a single major post went to a Berber either. So let's review, who was it that did the heavy lifting on the ground to put this new regime into power? Wasn't it the Islamists and the Berbers? Instead of dancing with the one that brung ya, you slam the door in their face the minute you reach the dance hall? That's going to work out well I am ever so sure.