Cameron's AVATAR shows a team of antropologists employed by the Big&Bad corporation to strike an agreement with the local monkeys so they would move from the tree they inhabited and allow mining. AVATAR is subversive teaching material yet legal. Like many Europeans, I find it incredible that the Anglosaxons, a most capitalistic race, should embrace a most subversive, leftist, anticapitalist ideology. While operating an imperialistic state. I mean the Americans maintain the most expensive and powerful military forces in the world, are fighting several foreign wars (having Iraq under naked military occupation while exploiting its oil deposits) and in general, acting like sober adults coldly (and effectively) pursueing their goals, all the while voicing infantile holistic nonsense.
It can be compared to the Israeli left, which demonstrates and fights the Border Guard police against the "Occupation", all the while dutifully pays its taxes to the State and serves in the "occupying" army. Like the abhorrent leftist lecturers who demand boycotting Israeli universities and at the same time, teach their classes and play their roles in the same universities. In the USA, extreme Alinsky communists are in power yet they continue managing the imperial wars and the financial capitalism almost exactly as if they were hard rightwing racists. The financier Soros foresaw this clearly and paid Black community-organizer Obama's political campaign.
The Human Terrain ideology, trying to understand the people they are fighting, is banal. It is just learning the native lingo. Any intelligent person can do it in one month maximum, as I did with German in Vienna. Or Hausa in Bauchi. What can be learnt by reading the infantile Hausa papers or sitting in their infect smokeries? The only useful idea in Human Terrain is preparing those cartoon wordbooks given out to American troops occupying China (see pic), Germany and Japan. They seem most practical.
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Pffft. Iraq is not occupied; it has a legitimately elected government making its own decisions and telling American troops when and where they can go. Its oil is being exploited by Chinese companies (they won the tenders.) While the war there was hot, the Left turned it into an American civil war by proxy, as they do with all our long wars. I can only wish that we were operating an imperialist state-it would actually be profitable, and save a lot of blood both for us and the other side.
Your left is a shitty copy of our left, just like your political system is an epiphenomenon of ours (it sure as shit is not derived from anything I can find in the Torah.) The reason that they castigate the system is to accrue the benefits of such castigation-fragmentation of the system and more power to be distributed amongst their ranks. The radicals of the 1960's are now in power, as has been their objective all along, and they've been creating more and more offices for themselves-HTT's are a minor example of an unnecessary position created by leftist ideology. Of course, under such a parasitic load, a system becomes ever less efficient-compare the ability of the British to profitably (to the natives and themselves) administer Egypt with 1900 technology, 5K troops and minimal bloodshed to our Iraqi clusterfuck. But if your objective is spoils of the system, this is irrelevant. The benefits (more positions, increased funding, increased prestige, increased power) accrue to you, and the costs are borne by the social class you despise, the Normalistanis. After all, Soros' and Chomsky's kids are never going to die in a war where we've been crippled by their ideology, and the enormous costs of these wars are borne by the productive class in the long run. So fuck 'em, right?
Fuck tem, yes, but if you believe that Iraq is a free country and has a freely elected democratic government and has freely allocated its recources to Chinese companies...
hpw do you say? I have a bridge on the Hudson to sell you.
I like B's analysis. The other thing that you have to understand about Obama is that he says the plausible moderate thing (at least for domestic audiences) but does the leftist thing, so watch what he does and not what he says. Disinformation is a standard part of the leftist play book.
I'd also like to add that leftists will sincerely deny that they are doing what B says they are doing, because they are not even aware of what they are doing. They will site completely different, high minded reasons for their actions because they are brain washed by their own nonsense. In a perverse way, I'd like to hope that at some top level there are leftists who actually understand what they are doing and are cynically manipulating the sheep, but no, this blindness is at all levels - they truly delude themselves as well as others.
I only wish that the Americans ran an empire with a cold eye, but they don't, at all. America, as a result of all the immigrant energy from people all over the world who had their talents unleashed when they came to a non-corrupt, socially mobile America, achieved great wealth and power while the rest of the world basically self destructed with Communism and socialism and fascism and all the other isms. But now we are catching up in the ism dept. and the rest of the world is less crippled so our relative position may fade.
America is sort of the Forrest Gump of nations, having lucked into worldwide power by being at the right place at the right time.
K
Are you denying that the USA invaded Iraq with military force, hanged its leader, imposed a puppet regime, maintains military bases and garrison in Iraq, influences the distribution of oil exploration and exploitation licences? I am all for American being in Iraq and the Middle East, but there seems to be certain dissonance between reality and Obama's leftist rethoric. Anyway, we are having two years of stability and relative peace here in Israel, which is longer than I can remember. May be Obama is not so bad for us. It is quite confusing.
Iraq's current government was democratically elected and does what it wants (look up the 2008 Basra offensive, for instance, or the operational restrictions it's placed on US forces since SOFA came into force.) The fact that the government is shit and its results are shit is only odd if you believe in democracy as a process generally leading to good results. Which I don't. Occam's Razor leads me to believe that the reason the Chinese won those tenders is not some Machiavellian neocolonialist machinations by our power elite (why not just deliver them to KBR or something, then?) but that they have learned how to work by, with and through the typical third world retard country's democratic government to achieve their economic goals. Their work in Africa certainly suggests this is the case.
I don't think that the current gov. in Iraq is a "puppet regime" except in the leftist sense where every gov. that is not an avowed enemy of the US must therefore be a "puppet regime". Certainly the US is not without influence but that influence has been exercised with the most noble of motives. It may be hard for cynical old worlders to believe, but the US really does act with humanitarian motives and not purely for profit. If it was about the oyyyyl why didn't we get the contracts? Why do we even NEED contracts - we should be able to just haul the stuff away the way the Russians hauled off all the metallic objects that they could find in their zone of Germany. This is why the E. Germans made cardboard cars.
K
"the most noble of motives"
I am not disputing American idealism nor Obama's rethorical ability.
I jus pointed out the existence, in my ears and that of many old cynical Europeans, of a certain dissonance between the rethoric and the military might.
Regarding the Chinese in Iraq, the USA follows the British policy of opening up world markets, with the (correct) idea that ultimately it will benefit everybody and the hope (also correct) that even more ultimately free markets will benefit most the Americans. I am reading a book on Spanish middle ages, and it is incredible but all export was basically considered a crime impoverishing the country.
...most noble of the motives...
Of course. And a large military force.
What's wrong with cardboard cars?
The large military force does not inherently conflict with the noble motives. The US became the world's policeman by default because the rest of the world used its military either to wage aggressive war (pre-war Germany and Japan) or no war at all (post-war Germany and Japan). Had it not been for the 50 year cold war you and the other cynics would all be speaking Russian by now. America picked up "the white man's burden" when England could no longer carry it. I don't know how much longer we can afford it either, but unless someone is willing to carry the load, Western democracy cannot stand unguarded - it is like a sheep that must be guarded from the wolves that would consume it - someone has to be the sheep dog. There will always be wolves. If you say "I am a peaceful sheep and have no ill intentions toward wolves" the wolves will only eat you faster.
Have you ever driven a Trabant? The cardboard body (really it is a form of plastic reinforced with waste fiber) is not that bad (unless you crash) but the 2 cycle engine that requires you to mix oil into the gasoline is a smoky pollution nightmare.
K
K,
I find it hard to share your optimistic view of how America came to be the world's policeman, and the benefits it has delivered to the world in this capacity. Two words: postcolonial Africa.
As far as our noble motives going into Iraq, as far as I can make out, it was an honest attempt by the administration to turn those goatfuckers into a Western democracy with rule of law, flourishing capitalism, etc., as a shining city upon a hill that the surrounding goatfuckers could emulate. This is exactly as retarded as it sounds, and basically constitutes malpractice. Our execution was even worse-Bremer was a buffoon, and the people he "supervised" were no better, for the most part. They commuted to the war for a tour of a fixed length, got their write-ups and promotions, and rotated home to write their books. Moldbug has a good quote by Eli Kedourie here http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-to-occupy-and-govern-foreign.html:
When we consider the long experience of Britain in the government of eastern countries, and set beside it the miserable polity which she bestowed on the populations of Mesopotamia, we are seized with rueful wonder. It is as though India and Egypt had never existed, as though Lord Cornwallis, Munro and Metcalf, John and Henry Lawrence, Milner and Cromer had attempted in vain to bring order, justice and security to the east, as though Burke and Macaulay, Bentham and James Mill had never addressed their intelligence to the problems and prospects of oriental government. We can never cease to marvel how, in the end, all this was discarded, and Mesopotamia, conquered by British arms, was buffeted to and fro between the fluent salesmanship of Lloyd George, the intermittent, orotund and futile declamations of Lord Curzon, the hysterical mendacity of Colonel [T. E.] Lawrence, the brittle cleverness and sentimental enthusiasms of Miss [Gertrude] Bell, and the resigned acquiescence of Sir Percy Cox. What are we to say when we find a State Paper presented by a secretary of state to Parliament in 1929, declaring without the suspicion of doubt or the shadow of a qualification that 'it seemed evident... that Iraq, judged by the criteria of internal security, sound public finances, and enlightened administration, would be in every way fit for admission to the League of Nations by 1932', and fit, therefore, to exercise the unfettered sovereignty which independent states possess? What, save that the style of State Papers, like so much else, suffered during the first world war irremediable degradation?
K,
I find it hard to share your view of how the US came to be the world's policeman, and of the benefits that accrued to the world from us playing this role. See: postcolonial Africa.
As far as Iraq, best I can understand, it was a good faith attempt by the administration to transform that bunch of demonic goatfuckers into a democratic, orderly shining city on a hill which would make the surrounding goatfuckers emulate them and love us, using the DoD and State to execute. In other words, malpractice. Using our current ideology, we can't even transform fucking Detroit into a livable city with functional democratic institutions and the rule of law, let alone Najaf.
Shit, double post. J, if you could delete the first one, I'd be thankful, blogger told me it couldn't be posted and then posted it anyway.
B,
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College assignment? Go think with your own head, or fuck off from here.
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