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Thursday, February 09, 2006

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- Hysterical hack David Horowitz - a man rather fond of a former oil man - has just released a new book, "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America." It promises to be a challenging read. One of his targets, Robert Jensen, has already responded and reminds the rabid Zionist that questioning the Iraq war and US foreign policy is a patriotic duty.

- Sami Ramadani, a political exile from Saddam's regime and a senior lecturer at London Metropolitan University, argues that the mainstream media is deliberately distorting the will of the Iraqi people:

"Only complete withdrawal will satisfy most Iraqis. And if genuine liberty and independence are not forthcoming, the spiral of violence will intensify from Afghanistan to Palestine."

- Debate over Victoria's racial vilification laws continues and church leaders are asking for change.

4 Comments:

Blogger Glenn Condell said...

I tend to mix Horowitz up with that Pipes fellow. They look a bit alike, with the faux progressive goatee, and they share professor-hunting tendencies.

Thursday, February 09, 2006 5:42:00 pm  
Blogger Glenn Condell said...

How shrill they are!

Reminds me of Christopher Hitchens fulminating about the BBCs pronunciation of Wolfowitz. I kid you not.

It's as if they're priests of some sort and their bullshit is holy writ, sacred dogma, and our concerns, even the odd respectful question, is heresy, blasphemy, mortally sinful.

We're so imprinted with such an aversion to 'classic' tropes of antisemitism that when we see a cabal composed largely of Jews stage-manages a war which they have been trying to sell on Israel's behalf for a decade, we aren't allowed to call it what it is.

The cabal thrives in this aversion, takes advantage of our 'good manners' in ignoring their shenanigans and plans even more Israel-friendly adventures while the iron is hot. They know enthusiasm is on the wane in the US, so they're wasting no time.

Scooter and Judy are as he said just two little aspen roots among clusters in the forest, making subterranean connections not for perusal by the likes of us.

But Patrick Fitzgerald seems to believe that other people can indeed penetrate that forest, when they have the law, and the future health of their country on their side. Good on him.

Friday, February 10, 2006 10:56:00 am  
Blogger Glenn Condell said...

And most people just blame Hitchens' weirdness on the drink!

There's a slew of inter-related reasons for his apostay. I personally feel he's been compromised somehow; they have something on him and it's bad enough that he'll junk his precious reputation to prevent it getting out. He would not be the only one; most assets become that way thru blackmail or some other hardball option, such as family threat.

But there is always a core who will tailor their work according to the dictates of power, simply because it's power. Hitchens' work is shot thru with apparently self-deprecating asides full of name-drops and clues to his regular supping at the top tables.

Last, there is the old Trotskyist longing for order imposed ruthlessly in pursuit of some ideological abstraction, in this case world freedom and democracy, courtesy of the USA. The old Hitch would have vomited at the very thought, but he was (ideologically) homeless after Communism collapsed everywhere, and those neocons were so nice to him (there is the added allure of ethnic if not religious affiliation) that he threw his not inconsiderable lot in with them.

It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall of his soul, always assuming it exists. Regrets, he's had a few? He must know he made a dreadful mistake, a personal strategic blunder comparable to the disaster he lent his name to.

And that points to another factor in the conundrum - he was spectacularly wrong and an ego like his is probably just incapable of admitting to others, and perhaps even to himself that 'I was wrong.'

And an apology would be light years further away.

Friday, February 10, 2006 6:02:00 pm  
Blogger James Waterton said...

"It's as if they're priests of some sort and their bullshit is holy writ, sacred dogma, and our concerns, even the odd respectful question, is heresy, blasphemy, mortally sinful."

Are you sure you're not describing environmentalists?

Saturday, February 11, 2006 2:25:00 pm  

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