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July 9, 2013
Egypt is never going to get any better.
And that's the good news. If your job involves waiting for some outbreak of Arab Spring to fix the country or the region, you can give up now. Or you can do what most government employees already d
o and phone it in. Master Sudoku. Learn to knit. Figure out how they get those ships into those bottles. And in between those things write up encouraging and hopeful things about the latest revolution. -- Sultan Knish: Good News from Egyptland
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 9, 2013 3:51 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Don't follow leaders, watch yer parking meters.
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Hermann Goering
Posted by: chasmatic at July 9, 2013 5:53 PM
It's the remarks about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating in the U.S. that concerns me. The parallels with Communist infiltration from the 30's on have merit. Whatever Joe McCarthy's demerits might have been as a person, and however dubious his methods, his basic premise was vindicated by the Venona Files and the Soviet Archives.
The MB is the new "scare" if you will. Obama has revealed by his actions that he is sympathetic to militant Islam, and has allowed the MB to infest our system. 3,000 innocent Americans and others incinerated on a beautiful Tuesday morning 12 years ago means nothing to him. They're just more "bumps in the road." What a creepy cold fish this nasty little man is.
Posted by: Don Rodrigo at July 10, 2013 9:28 AM