Crackpot Realism
John Bonanno
countries-Iraq and Lebanon-as sponsored or encouraged by America's ruling
bipartisan coalition and its ideological counselors-ranging from Christian
nutballs like Falwell to secular nutballs like Hitchens. Wesley Clarke is
now saying that back in late 2001 he visited the Pentagon and was told the
planned hit list included Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia
and Sudan as part of a five-year campaign plan. Two down, five to go.
The attack on Lebanon was planned in detail at least a year ago. Israel
picked the supposed provocation of the Hezbollah capture of two Israeli
soldiers on July 25, but almost any excuse would have sufficed. In 1982
Israel lied flatly, and said it was responding to shells lobbed over the
border, even though there'd been none for over a year.
With Bush and Rice and the policy-makers and intellectual courtiers
surrounding them, crackpot realism is the prevailing mode.
"Crackpot realism" was the concept defined by the great Texan sociologist,
C. Wright Mills in 1958, when he published The Causes of World War Three,
also the year that Dwight Eisenhower sent the Marines into Lebanon to
bolster local US factotum, Lebanese President Camille Chamoun.
"In crackpot realism," Mills wrote, " a high-flying moral rhetoric is joined
with an opportunist crawling among a great scatter of unfocused fears and
demands. .. The expectation of war solves many problems of the crackpot
realists; ... instead of the unknown fear, the anxiety without end, some men
of the higher circles prefer the simplification of known catastrophe....They
know of no solutions to the paradoxes of the Middle East and Europe, the Far
East and Africa except the landing of Marines. ... they prefer the bright,
clear problems of war-as they used to be. For they still believe that
'winning' means something, although they never tell us what...""-Alexander
Cockburn
the rest:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn07312006.html
... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all
not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is
no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is
an entirely different matter. - Gertrude Stein
Véritable Rosbif
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The expectation of war solves many problems of the crackpot
> realists; ... instead of the unknown fear, the anxiety without end, some
> men of the higher circles prefer the simplification of known
> catastrophe....They know of no solutions to the paradoxes of the Middle
> East and Europe, the Far East and Africa except the landing of Marines.
> ... they prefer the bright, clear problems of war-as they used to be. For
> they still believe that 'winning' means something, although they never
> tell us what...""-Alexander Cockburn
>
> the rest:
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn07312006.html
Indeed. "Their generals bellow about dumping 20 rockets on south Beirut for
every one landing in Israel and are astounded when people start talking
about the fact that exacting reprisals on a civilian population - which is
what the onslaught has been all about - is a war crime."
John Bonanno
"Véritable Rosbif" <no.spam...@infinity.uz> wrote
"Israel cannot afford to emerge from the present crisis without the threat
to its population centers permanently removed, and Hezbollah claims it will
not accept any resolution of the conflict that would contain any element of
humiliation. The two aims are irreconcilable, and Israel is determined not
to settle for less than full security for its citizens."-Efraim Halvey,
former head of Mossad
Israel's notion that they will be safe if only Hezbollah is destroyed
displays a banal absurdity.
The cruelty and depravity of destroying innocent civilians indicates that
Israel has lost its heart.
Oh but you say, the IDF only targets locations from which rockets have been
launched!
Do you really believe that Hezbollah militias tarry around their launching
sites in full knowledge that Israel is targeting them via real time
satellite intelligence which, by the way, is provided by the USA?
A thousand new Hezbollahs will replace any 'destroyed' Hezbollah.
Israel has no shortage of passive enemies and its actions ensure many more
new more active aggressive enemies.
Why do so many Christians cheer on brutal and callous war-making in
opposition to the words of their god?
You have heard that it was said, "Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
(Matthew 5:43-44).
But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate
you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you (Luke
6:27-28).
I know, this shit doesn't apply to Jews.
Their role is to be consumed in the Armageddon desired by Christian
fundamentalist fools.
But I don't want to see a conflagration in the Middle East.
I want Israel to survive, despite an apparent death wish.
Israel has no chance to survive without the support of the USA until they
make true peace with its neighbors.
The support of the USA will wither away in this climate of destruction.
When your best friends (Christian fundamentalists) and your fiercest enemies
(the Muslims) both want the same thing (Israel's destruction), you are in
big trouble.
"Neocon prescriptions [of use of force to try to change things unilaterally]
of which Israel has its equivalents, are fatal for America and ultimately
for Israel. They will totally turn the overwhelming majority of the Middle
East's population against the United States. The lessons of Iraq speak for
themselves. Eventually, if neocon policies continue to be pursued, the
United States will be expelled from the region and that will be the
beginning of the end for Israel as well."-Zbigniew Brzezinski
some quotes above found in this Nathan Gardels piece found here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gardels/beginning-of-the-end-for-_b_26247.html
SteveMR200
<i-CdnaCDC7U0L03Z...@adelphia.com>:
>Israel has no chance to survive without the support of the USA until they
>make true peace with its neighbors.
I don't know about that, John. I believe Israel
will survive either with or without the support of
the USA. I further believe Israel will actually
expand its current geographical boundaries and that
peace with its neighbors will be virtually impossible.
ObQuote:
God's promises to Israel are unconditional; therefore,
the Jews will take possession of the land from the
Euphrates River to the River of Egypt in due time:
"In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram,
saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from
the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river
Euphrates" (Genesis 15:18).
According to this verse, portions of today's
Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are literally
Arab-occupied Israeli territory.
--Arno Froese
_119 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Prophecy_ [2003],
"Will The Jews Ever Possess The Land Of Israel According To
The Borders Documented In The Bible?"
--
Steve
John Bonanno
"SteveMR200" < wrote
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:11:55 -0400, John Bonanno wrote in message:
>
>
>>Israel has no chance to survive without the support of the USA until they
>>make true peace with its neighbors.
>
> I don't know about that, John. I believe Israel
> will survive either with or without the support of
> the USA. I further believe Israel will actually
> expand its current geographical boundaries and that
> peace with its neighbors will be virtually impossible.
>
> ObQuote:
> God's promises to Israel are unconditional; therefore,
> the Jews will take possession of the land from the
> Euphrates River to the River of Egypt in due time:
> "In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram,
> saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from
> the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river
> Euphrates" (Genesis 15:18).
>
His book is full of them.
> According to this verse, portions of today's
> Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are literally
> Arab-occupied Israeli territory.
> --Arno Froese
> _119 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Prophecy_ [2003],
> "Will The Jews Ever Possess The Land Of Israel According To
> The Borders Documented In The Bible?"
>
> --
> Steve
Every group tells its people lies to get them to perform distasteful acts or
make war.
As for the righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens and
vineyards, and high- bosomed virgins for companions: a truly overflowing
cup.-Koran 78:31
...They will sit with bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered
eggs of ostriches.- Koran 37:40-48
"Gott mit uns" - motto on a belt buckle of the Wehrmacht soldier of the
Reich in World War II taken as a souvenir by my father, (this buckle motto
was also used by the German army in The Great War.)
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the
Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the
work of the Lord." -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
"The survival of Israel and of the Jewish nation depends on the containment
and hopefully eradication of radical, violent Islam, no less than it depends
on a strong U.S.-Israel alliance. Both of these are associated with the Bush
administration." -Michael Anbar, www.infoisrael.net banging the drum for
American Jews to vote Bush in 2004
Neocons definitely believe the survival of Israel depends on the United
States.
"The steady alignment of American interests with Israel made it possible for
American Jews to be good Jews, good Democrats and good American patriots
too. This same period gave birth to neoconservatism, in which Israel played
a major role. The career of Norman Podhoretz might serve as an illustration.
He was once a man of the left who wondered, when ''thinking about the
Jews,'' whether ''their survival as a distinct group was worth one hair on
the head of a single infant.'' But, as he explained in a speech on the
occasion of his retirement as editor of Commentary in 1995, he began to
change his mind in the 60's, when he became ''much more aggressive in
defense of Jewish interests in general and of Israel in particular.'' One
reason was a sense of shock when defeat in Vietnam threatened to turn the
United States into a demoralized, enervated, even isolationist power, which
would no longer stand up for good against evil in the world.
The other came roughly at the same time. Israel's occupation of Palestinian
territories made radical leftists in the United States as receptive as
Europeans to Arab and Soviet depictions of the Zionists as neo-Nazis.
Disgust with this kind of ''liberalism,'' as well as with a perception of
American weakness, pushed former leftists, like Podhoretz and Irving
Kristol, managing editor of Commentary, to the right. Convinced of ''the
inextricable connection between the survival of Israel and American military
strength,'' Podhoretz began to see American dovishness in foreign affairs as
a direct threat to Israeli survival. This feeling may be shared by some
European Jews too, but without the swagger that goes with being a superpower
citizen. Ruth Wisse, a professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard, remarked
about Podhoretz that ''because of the national confidence that America
nurtured in him, he is immune to the self-doubt and apologetics that eat up
so many of his co-religionists from inside.''"- August 31, 2003 Ian Buruma
(New York Times Sunday Magazine)
the rest:
http://www.vopj.org/issues40.htm
"For Rabin, the survival of Israel was inextricably linked to the United
States." -Joseph Sisco, former U.S. Undersecretary of State
The gods (christian, jew, muslim) of the middle east are especially insane.
SteveMR200
<QMudnXZKjIRxy0jZ...@adelphia.com>:
>"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the
>Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the
>work of the Lord." -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
I might agree that the Allies are partly to blame,
but nothing can fully excuse the inequity of
Hitler's persecution of the Jews, or the absurdity
of his theoretical position.
Did you see that he said "The Jews have made no
contribution to human culture and in crushing them I
am doing the will of the Lord."
Now as the whole idea of the "will of the Lord" is
precisely what the world owes to the Jews, the
blaspheming tyrant has just fixed his absurdity for
all to see in a single sentence, and shown that he
is as contemptible for his stupidity as he is
detestable for his cruelty.
--C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
_The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves_ [1986],
"5 November 1933"
--
Steve
John Bonanno
"SteveMR200" wrote
John Bonanno wrote in message:
>
>>Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for
>>the
>>work of the Lord." -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
>
> I might agree that the Allies are partly to blame,
> but nothing can fully excuse the inequity of
> Hitler's persecution of the Jews, or the absurdity
> of his theoretical position.
>
> Did you see that he said "The Jews have made no
> contribution to human culture and in crushing them I
> am doing the will of the Lord."
>
> Now as the whole idea of the "will of the Lord" is
> precisely what the world owes to the Jews, the
> blaspheming tyrant has just fixed his absurdity for
> all to see in a single sentence, and shown that he
> is as contemptible for his stupidity as he is
> detestable for his cruelty.
> --C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
> _The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves_ [1986],
> "5 November 1933"
>
> --
> Steve
If the world owes the Jews the notion of "the will of the Lord", they indeed
have much for which to answer, but I think the idea of theologically
inspired carjacking (sorry for the anachronism) precedes them. The
monotheistic conceit lends the lie great heft, however.
"In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who
did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have
been accepted by the people."- Nicolo Machiavelli
"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the
source of all religious fanaticism"-Reinhold Niebuhr
Catherine Deschevaux
> I further believe Israel will actually
> expand its current geographical boundaries and that
> peace with its neighbors will be virtually impossible.
My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the - in the
Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the
different parties involved that peace will never happen.
~ George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas (Aug 31, 2001)
//__________Catherine Deschevaux_____________
'Prenez haleine, tirez forte'
**I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed
with success as opposed to failure. - GWB **
______________________
Sr. Eveline
>>"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the
>>Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the
>>work of the Lord." -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
> I might agree that the Allies are partly to blame,
> but nothing can fully excuse the inequity of
> Hitler's persecution of the Jews, or the absurdity
> of his theoretical position.
>
> Did you see that he said "The Jews have made no
> contribution to human culture and in crushing them I
> am doing the will of the Lord."
>
> Now as the whole idea of the "will of the Lord" is
> precisely what the world owes to the Jews, the
> blaspheming tyrant has just fixed his absurdity for
> all to see in a single sentence, and shown that he
> is as contemptible for his stupidity as he is
> detestable for his cruelty.
> --C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
_________________________
And nonsense draws evil after it.
~ C.S. Lewis 1898-1963, The Four Loves
//Sr. Eveline
___________________________
Dora M.
> I further believe Israel will actually
> expand its current geographical boundaries and that
> peace with its neighbors will be virtually impossible.
You can't bring logic into this. We're talking about marriage. Marriage
is like the Middle East. There's no solution.
~ dial, Shirley Valentine (1989) [Shirley]
//Regards
Dora M.
**In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because
I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my
charge. -Lord Chesterfield**
_______________________
SteveMR200
<i-CdnaCDC7U0L03Z...@adelphia.com>:
>But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate
>you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
>(Luke 6:27-28).
It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
--Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
_Beyond Good and Evil_ [1886],
"Maxims and Interludes," No. 181
--
Steve
John Bonanno
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"The Christian concept of God is one of the most corrupt conceptions of God
arrived on earth; perhaps it even represents the low-water mark in the
descending development of the God type. God degenerated to the
*contradiction of life,* instead of being its transfiguration and eternal
Yes! In God a declaration of hostility towards life, nature, and the will to
life! God is the formula for every calumny of 'this world', for every lie
about the 'next world!' In God nothingess defied, the will to nothingness
sanctified . . . . -Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist