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host: i chose to not emphasise the recurrence of that tedious discourse of political will mostly because i am sick of talking about it here--it is obviously absurd, it is obviously meaningless, it is equally obviously a favorite of the right because it links to their neofascist conception of the nation and its mission and sets up the usual critique of dissent as division of the will etc etc etc: but you're right in pointing that out, and in this context i perhaps should not have allowed my boredom with this topic in this forum to erase it from my take on things.
the scenario that features the republicans re-running the fascist arguments concerning the treaty of versailles will be no surprise.
at the moment, though, what is interesting to me most is the relation (if any) between these steps toward diplomatic engagement particularly with iran and the potentials they may have for derailing the (potential) attack on iran that it (still) appears is in the works.
ace: your assessment of cowboy george is really something. "balls" you say. is that a technical term? where you see evidence of "balls" i see evidence of a kind of myopia. where you see righteousness, i see an almost irrational inability to admit error, to change course. where you see achievements in iraq, i see fiasco--this one is easy peasy, however, in that yours is at the very best a selective reading--selective to the point of arbitrariness--but whatever, i am not interested in going through this particular debate again.
all i'll say is that you have at best a tenuous connection to reality in your interpretations of the actions of the bush squad.
if any of what you are saying had weight, i doubt seriously that any of the shifts outlined in the articles that i put together would be happening.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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