Brad said: I hypothesize there are still a lot of persons in the former USSR, who never sent anybody to the Gulag or did any other evil, who would gladly trade what they've got now for what they had under Khruschev. I also believe there was a different way that the USSR could have transitioned into freedom: with a parachute instead of us just watching the plane fall out of the sky.
I reply: At least one person on the list has begun to ask the same kinds of questions I've had all along after living next to Russians in the Mountains and dealing with their superior musical and entrepreneurial training recieved in Communist schools. (They work together and get things done.) Here's a little more about the Sam Lipman type Neo-cons that have decimated America's musical establishment. Now they are doing to the world the same kind of provencial thinking that destroyed America's orchestras and suppressed serious aesthetic thought in America. REH August 6, 2003 Neocon Coup at the Department d'�tat By MAUREEN DOWD ASHINGTON Let others fight over whether the war in Iraq was a neocon vigilante action disrupting diplomacy. The neocons have moved on to a vigilante action to occupy diplomacy. The audacious ones have saddled up their pre-emptive steeds and headed off to force a regime change at Foggy Bottom. President Bush staged a Texan tableau vivant last night, playing host at his ranch to the secretary of state, his wife, Alma, and his deputy, Richard Armitage. Mr. Bush wanted to show solidarity after a Washington Post story on Monday that said that Colin Powell, under pressure from his wife, said he would not be part of a second Bush term, nor would Mr. Armitage. Mr. Bush might be trying to signal his respect for Mr. Powell, but the president is not always privy to the start of a grandiose neocon scheme. The scene was reminiscent of last August in Crawford, when Mr. Bush dismissed press "churning" that the administration was on the verge of striking Iraq, saying, "When I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man and that we will look at all options and we will consider all technologies available to us, and diplomacy and intelligence." We all know how that turned out. When the neocons want something done, they'll get it done, no matter what Mr. Bush thinks. And they think Mr. Powell has downgraded the top cabinet post into a human resources job, making nicey-nice with the U.N. and assorted bad guys instead of pursuing the neocon blueprint for world domination through what James Woolsey calls World War IV (World War III being the cold war.) Countering the Post story, Mr. Powell's posse claimed that neither the secretary of state nor his deputy had ever said they intended to step down, and charged that the neocons were leaking a canard to turn the two men they consider lame doves into lame ducks. "This is the revenge of the neocons for two months of bad news, looking like they're falling all over themselves in Iraq," said a Powell confidant, noting that Alma Powell was furious she had been dragged in. In The Post, nearly all of the names of those who could move up if Mr. Powell moves out are Iraq hawks: Condi Rice, Paul Wolfowitz and Newt Gingrich were mentioned as candidates for secretary of state; Wolfie, Cheney Chief of Staff Scooter Libby and Condi deputy Steve Hadley, who may be radioactive after the uranium mistake, were mentioned for national security chief. Mr. Wolfowitz has been tacitly campaigning for the jobs. He told Charlie Rose about his vice-regal trip to Iraq, where he said at last grateful Iraqis were thronging. "As we would drive by, little kids would run up to the road and give us a thumbs up sign," he said. (At least he thought it was the thumb.) The move against the popular Powell had all the earmarks of the neocons' pre-emptive strike on Iraq. 1.) Demonize. Reiterating his speech trashing Foggy Bottom last April for propping up dictators and coddling the corrupt, Mr. Gingrich - a Rummy ally who serves on the Defense Policy Board - called for "top-to-bottom reform and culture shock" at State in an article in the July Foreign Policy magazine. 2.) Sex-up the intelligence. The leakers spread word that Mr. Armitage told Condi that he and Mr. Powell would leave on Jan. 21, 2005, the day after the next presidential inauguration. "Nonsense," said Mr. Powell. "Nonsense," said Mr. Armitage. 3.) Create a false rationale. Everyone knew the pair might not stay for a second term. But the neocons were impatient to give them a push, blaming poor Alma Powell for henpecking her husband when they were. 4.) Bring about regime change. 5.) Fail to prepare for the aftermath. "Newt as secretary of state?" sneered one Powell pal. "Hel-lo?" 6.) Make sure it's good for Ariel Sharon. Just as the neocons made their move on Mr. Powell, pro-Israel hawks scorned the secretary for not being on their team in the peace process. Israel's supporters scoffed at the new threat to cut loan guarantees as a State Department policy, not a White House policy. 7.) Ignore the real threat. While the neocons are preoccupying the country with Iraq and a coup at the department d'�tat, Al Qaeda may have blown up a Marriott in Indonesia and are plotting attacks here. 8.) Change the subject. Next stop, North Korea. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christoph Reuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Sharon's Wall, Waiting for Godot etc. et al. > Christoph Reuss wrote: > > [snip] > > Karen Watters Cole wrote: > > > >>Remember it was Reagan who said to Gorby, take down this > >>wall. Now we are assisting in raising another one > > > > > > Ronnie IV (or whoever will reside in the WhiteHouse then) will never shout > > "Tear down this wall, Mr Sharon!", because the Israel lobby is clearly more > > powerful than the Soviet lobby in D.C. was... > [snip] > > I was thinking along the same lines. > > There never was a Soviet lobby in D.C.: What there was > was called espionage agents (oh, yes, there > were also the "fellow travellers"). > > I hypothesize there are still a lot > of persons in the former USSR, who never sent > anybody to the Gulag or did any other evil, > who would gladly trade what they've got now for what > they had under Khruschev. I also believe there > was a different way that the USSR could have > transitioned into freedom: with a parachute instead of > us just watching the plane fall out of the sky. > > Ronnie: "Pretty good the way that wall fell down, > eh, George?" > BushI: "The best thing since the loaves and fishes, > Mr. President." > Goddforesakenistan citizen: "Did someone say there > were loaves and fishes somewhere?" > Bertolt Brecht's ghost: "They did indeed, in > Palestine and 1950 years ago. What they > were referring to is that you are lucky > because now you are free even if you are > also hungry." > > (Somewhere near Paris, Vladimir and Estragon, mesmeriszed > still by Jean-Paul Sartre's irresponsible existentialism, > ask each other: "Do you think Godot's coming any time > soon?" "Dunno. You know, though, I heard somebody > had a cat named Godot*. You don't suppose we've been > looking for the wrong kind of creature all these years, > do you?"...) > > \brad mccormick > > *Factually correct statement, BMcC. > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
