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Antiwar.com Original Articles : The 'Good' War

Sun, 6 Sep 2009 22:44:53 +0000

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.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : In Bush's Footsteps

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:11:57 +0000

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.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : War? What War?

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:22:30 +0000

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

Antiwar.com Original Articles : A Balkans Belgium?

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:27:36 +0000

@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

Antiwar.com Original Articles : The Circle Cannot Hold

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:31:55 +0000

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.....

Antiwar.com Original Articles : The Honduran Drama

Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:06:49 +0000

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 ?"

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Going Nowhere Fast in Afghanistan

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:37:54 +0000

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 !

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Iran’s Green Revolution: Made in America?

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:59:30 +0000

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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syKMsDS2OzE) they have to endure over there ... What ? all that silence is deafening !

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Dream Big! Become an Israeli Spy!

Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:40:49 +0000

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

Comment on Antiwar.com Articles : Comment on March Madness, 1939

Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:18:11 +0000

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"