While the Bush administration had approved some clandestine military activities far from designated war zones, the new order is intended to make such efforts more systematic and long term, officials said.Considered historically, it will become clear that the job of Republican governments is to invent novel, ad hoc expansions of state power, while the job of Democratic governments is to consolidate and systematize them. Far from repudiating supposed Bush-era "excesses," the Obama regime has sought--usually successfully--to entrench and to codify them. This is just the latest example.
-The Times
And yes. I did. Tell yinz. So.
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Indeed, IOZ, no one can accuse you of suspending the pessimism of your intellect with regard to the "change" so many of our fellow citizens were seduced into believing in. Plus ça change, same as it ever was.
At this point I am reminded of a passage from Meade McLoughlan's review of Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy, Andrew Chitty and Martin Mcivor (eds):
My reasons for thinking that Marxists should be suspicious of the pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will slogan also relate to its provenance. The phrase was coined by the French writer Romain Rolland, and it seems likely that he, knowingly or otherwise, copied it from Jacob Burckhardt's definition of the Greek spirit: pessimism of the world-view and optimism of the temperament. Burckhardt was a colleague and friend of Friedrich Nietzsche, and his definition clearly resonates with Nietzsche’s own account of Greek culture in The Birth of Tragedy. My hunch, therefore, would be that pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will is really a description of a certain kind of tragic wisdom; that is, it is about affirming the negativity presented by the intellect, not trying to overcome it. Indeed the slogan only really makes sense as such.
Can't wait until Hopey Changey goes all salvationist on Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia...
but if we don't send our otherwise unemployable CIA/Pentagon goons around the world to murder everyone we don't like, what will we do with them?
If we stopped mocking the Obamites for a few minutes, maybe they'd have the space to take a deep breath and admit they were hoodwinked rather than defensively insisting that this is what they wanted all along.
Of course, that assumes this ISN'T what they wanted all along.
the "you are dealing with morons here" excuse? nice try except this policy of cutting off the johnsons of everyone we don't like anywhere in the world is consistent with everything else this murderous dipshit Obombsalot has signed off on.
stillnotking,
I think professional liberals want security for their interests as much, if not more than professional conservatives.
The commentariat knew what it was selling, and even if our cousins in the lower orders didn't know exactly what they were getting, their middle class technocrat counterparts most certainly did.
@ ran: Not to mention the entire State department, the defense industry, and tens of thousands of college students studying public policy or political science or international relations or whatever. Conflict pays many more people and in higher amounts than peace or isolationism. If you create a problem, there must be someone to try (and of course eventually fail) to solve it.
I haven't heard a good "blackmail!!!" conspiracy theory in quite some time. I'm feeling nostalgic.
1:27 Nonny seems to think accusations of
"conspiracy theory! over there!"
is some kind of message-destroyer, or truth-revealer.
Wonder if Nonny ever played a team sport, where conspiracies are regular and in fact, preferred.
Nonny must be an island.
Jesus Christ, Oxtrot, once again, you prove you are the stupidest, most useless subhuman fuck to ever stink up this comment section. Here, find someone with some reading comprehension and have them explain this to you:
From 2006-2008, every capitulation by the Dems in Congress was explained away by the progs as evidence that Bush/Cheney was blackmailing them somehow to keep them from doing the right thing, which we all know they rilly rilly wanted to do deep down in their hearts. The idea that they were actually doing exactly what they wanted to do was too foreign for them to comprehend.
Now, seriously, go suck on an exhaust pipe, you stupid bastard.
@3:55 Anon
I raise you one Inky.
Capt'n Obvious
hey annonymous, "explained away by the progs" "progs"? reeeealy? what "progs" are these you rant of? also, NO ONE likes an over defensive paranoid douchebag. so stop being one.
3:55,
that had not occurred to us, dude.
the initial comment was really oblique. so much so, both Oxtrot's and your explanations of what was meant seem equally plausible.
What a revolting development.
--Donny
Your phone's ringing dude.
Hey... that's YOUR name, dude!
Anon 7:27, you're out of your element. Also, shut the fuck up before I skullfuck your brain to jelly.
Say what you will about the tenets of the GOP, at least it's an ethos.
There is no left in American politics, is there.
Only murderous, conspiratorial fucks.
This "Democratic Party" organization-thing would be considered fascistic anywhere else in the world.
In the US? They're socialists, sir.
You mean fascist like the NAZIs (nationalist sozialist) of yore? Or like Benito "collective farms" Mussollini?
.
Your "left" Sir, likely means marxist-leninist communistic bolshevismus.
Because pretty much everywhere in the world "socialist" means political partaker of the State-corporations-public compact.
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