roachboy

the only register in which this is funny, the french threat of military action, is one operating in a framework of total ignorance american style.
one that would have enabled you to accept the bushworld efforts to shift blame for their debacle at thhe un security council in the run up to the war in iraq away from their own inept, fradulent presentation of their case to france.
the kind of ignorance that neither knows nor cares anything about the long, squalid history of french colonial actions, particularly in north africa.
the kind of ignorance that the american conservative apparatus relies upon as a given, a base condition, amongst its main constituency.

what 's hilarious in this is the degree to which unilateral, questionably justified military action constitutes the basic characteristic of a "macho" regime--the funny element is the extent to which this view incorporates the unilateralist, questionably justified military logic of bushworld into its core--now the irrational, self-defeating, short sighted character of bushworld is a normative issue, one that can be used to evaluate other regimes.

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