socialism. communalism. tribalism......
JFC forum is a mini-cult stuck on some damn line of agenda wonks from who knows..... ten or fifteen little do-gooder elite causes that have to be defended or the world will just be a lost cause.
Wilkow has his Schick. He is surrounded by liberals and is cool with it, but on air he rakes them with perhaps the most direct and cutting observations you can find anywhere.
With Liberals, don't even hope for logic. Accusing progressives of logic is like accusing men of cerebral sexuality. It's not logic, it's emotional fetishism. Pick a cute little animal. There's Liberals who've spent thousands of dollars to save them... Whales, mudsucker fish, beetles, owls, wolves. You can't be a real progressive unless you have a dog to walk in the park. It's your street cred.
I've never been an optimist for US foreign policy. I never thought the war in Iraq was particularly a good idea. We have former Secretary of State Maldeline Albright..... a Rockefeller clanster....to thank for nearly 10 trillion in US budget for militarism over the past 30 years. I'm sure there are no Rockefeller holdings in Lockheed or ATK or whatever corporates that build war toys. Albright gave Saddam Hussein the green light, signaling we would do nothing if they took in their little oil-rich neighbor.
mainstream republicans and the dems are all on the militaristic bandwagon. Even Pelosi. The Pelosi family is deep in the payola with financial interests in government supported industires.
In China, this kind of fascism is fully institutionalized. It's not "Marxism" or any other pipe dream. The little circle of elite rulers has full ownership of most of the industry and the Army and other military forces and suppliers.
China will become as assertive around the world as we have ever been.
The media blitz on the Kurds and the criticism of Trump for actually thinking more of US soldier lives than military hardware manufacturers is shameless opportunism. We could get a UN sponsored protectorate over the Kurd areas of Iran, Iraq and Turkey. But that would reverse the Brit foreign office decisions for the last 70 years, that it's better for the British to keep local wars going, endlessly, instead of developing stable governance compatible with the local peoples' interests.
The classic movie "Eagle in a Cage" was insightful. You all should watch it. Napoleon on St. Helens isle, in a kind of captivity. The British foreign minister comes to discuss terms for re-instating him on continental Europe toe run some more wars between British competitors. The good minister defends his actions, which would unleash untold death and devastation on Europe, by saying "At least it won't be British blood".
Every time the peoples of Eurasia have looked likely to develop a land trade route.... railroad.... competent for economic development across Eurasia, we have had another war...... WWI..... WWII....
something. And somehow, it turns out America has to defend the Brits.
