What the Hell Did You Think Was Gonna Happen?
Gary Brecher takes no prisoners in his rant on the current Iraqi War, the Boer War, and empire building. Excerpting would do it a violence; go read the whole thing.
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Gary Brecher takes no prisoners in his rant on the current Iraqi War, the Boer War, and empire building. Excerpting would do it a violence; go read the whole thing.
(Via Ethel the Blog )
Because in Mrissaland no historical analysis is complete without reference to Finland--
"And the people will rise up to welcome and help us" is exactly what the Soviets told their troops when they sent them into snowy Karelia and the Saamemaa in cotton uniforms, with no skis and damned little in the way of provisions. The Soviet troops were really, honestly baffled about why they were not being welcomed into the homes of loyal Finns who had embraced the notion of communism and had been hungering for it for months or even years.
They got Karelia because they could keep flinging more soldiers at it, and because Stalin wasn't anybody's cuddly bear when it came to piling corpses on to make a problem go away. But the Finns had a strong reaction *against* communism -- that's not really the way to win the ideological point. Even when the Finns were forced to come to terms and do a fascist witch-hunt, the result was still not a communist or communist-friendly government.
This has been your Finnophile analogy for the morning.
Posted by Mris on September 6 2003 06:34
Go Gary. Goddammit.
Of course some of us Am*r*c*ns have actually studied some history, and aren't a bit surprised. Who was the last US president who tried to make the world safe for democracy? Woodrow Wilson. Damned good guy, intelligent, idealistic, and pragmatic. And what'd he get for it in the long run? Dumped by the Euros and stabbed in the back by the American public. Nobody wants world peace. Everyone wants THEIR people running the show.
We're gonna take it in the shorts in Iraq, just like we did in Vietnam. Except I'm afraid that, insted of bleeding to death overseas, this war's version of taking it in the shorts will involve someone blowing up something else at home. Be afraid, be very afraid. I know I am.
Posted by Jimcat on September 6 2003 19:38