Tag Archives: Damien Cave

so romantic: but NIMBY

Something American about it. That snappy walk, The way the gum is chewed. There is no end to the American ingenuity of shaping public opinion. Its post-Imperialism. There is always this incorporation of the “other” within a narrative that serves … Continue reading

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people on our side

Like the French movie, La Diner des Cons,” the public is taken to be the little suckers that seem such an agreeable role, preordained path of least resistance as long as there are a few crumbs left on the table. … Continue reading

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motley crew: its Huck Finn time

Sympathy vote. The gang that couldn’t slingshot straight. This is a ridiculous story; equal parts situation comedy, black comedy and farce. It looks like warfare depictions from the fall of Constantinople. The idea is to show how courageous the Free … Continue reading

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won’t get fooled again?

The Great Revolution of Egypt. Hard to really discern the posture, gesture and window dressing from actual meat and potatoes significance that Egyptian society will develop according to its own intrinsic sense of logic and understanding instead of being contained … Continue reading

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better hate than never

On the one side, an interesting article, if rather generic and redundant.  Its genuineness and authenticity is derived ostensibly from leaving the baloney and political correctness at the door revealing the voice of the silent majority. But it also dredges … Continue reading

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the resisters

To some, Sheikh Scapa is another terrorist, to others he is a martyr engaged in a holy act, pleasurable to Allah in taking out the enemy. Resistance, violent and deadly resistance being morally acceptable given the nature of Israel’s occupation … Continue reading

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stooges: a captivating public

What? He captivated the Arab world? It was previously thought that walking on water and loaves of bread and nets full of fish were associated with Christian culture. But heck, with Mohammed Morsi, there is no telling where charisma can … Continue reading

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barrels full of killer monkeys

Shades of Oliver North. Now its “legal” to raise funds for the Free Syrian Army in the United States. How that supposedly non-military support aid gets translated into arms is a question that goes to the profound root of financial … Continue reading

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war: a continuation of policy by other means

A deaf ear to Clausewitz and how not to win a war. He died in 1831, yet we still haven’t grasped the lessons in the post WWII age: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran? …… In distinguishing between the defensive and the … Continue reading

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guide to the perplexed: how to lose a war

Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. What next? How much the academic think-merchants should share in the responsibility for these messy predicaments is not really quantifiable. But judging from what he read and see, the American government would have found a better guide … Continue reading

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