[lit-ideas] Re: The supergun that couldn't shoot straight

  • From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 00:10:03 -0700

Omar wrote or quoted:

The US has not learned anything from 55 years of
> foreign-policy debacles.

ck: This type of blanket lede announces that the speaker is not intending to 
discuss nor debate an issue. He speaks to his converted, for others will 
tune out the know-it-all tone that is a hallmark of those without 
credibility or authority. Rhetorically, as first sentences go, this one gets 
a shrug with a request to turn the page. But then ideologues usually don't 
care what others think.

Carol



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Omar Kusturica" <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:56 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] The supergun that couldn't shoot straight


> The US has not learned anything from 55 years of
> foreign-policy debacles. Even now, at the same time it
> is enmeshed in the very trap it laid for the Soviets
> in Afghanistan, and is bogged down in Iraq in a replay
> of Vietnam, it is rattling sabers at Iran. One reason
> Kolko gives for the United States' failing to heed
> what history is telling it is that its wealth and
> military power enable it to continue making the same
> mistakes - though not indefinitely. It also has a
> massive military-industrial empire to which it is
> beholden for domestic political reasons. Kolko has
> much to say on the latter subject, including the need
> of successive US administrations to play the fear card
> to justify staggering military budgets (the pet
> anti-ballistic-missile shield project has cost US$70
> billion to develop, and will cost another $60 billion
> to deploy - and it does not even work).
>
> http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HE03Aa02.html
>
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