LOLWTF
McCain’s problem is that his party is unfit to govern. As research from the Republican pollster David Winston has shown, any policy becomes less popular when people learn that Republicans are supporting it. If the G.O.P. sponsored the sunrise, voters would prefer gloom. Many Republicans are under the illusion that they are in trouble because they’ve betrayed their core principles. The sad truth is that if they’d been more conservative, they’d be even further behind.
All true. But a liberal didn’t write it. David Brooks did.
Urk. This is yet another example of Brooks seeming to be even-handed and honest, of appearing to be reasonable and even disinterested when, actually… it’s a trap!
A well-disguised trap. Here’s the hint that Brooks is still a fargin bastich:
Voters agree with Obama’s original position on Iraq, but according to the Pew Research Center, they trust McCain more to handle the issue.
Ok, that’s not much to go on but consider: Brooks is one of those “National Greatness” neoconmen. Like Teh Kristolmethodists, Teh Pod People, David Frum Canadia, and, yes, like John McCain[1], Brooks is quite willing to be flexible when it comes to domestic — and, especially, economic — policy because he’s an opportunist. It’s all negotiable; go to where the votes are. But what’s non-negotiable and what trumps all other causes is the War on China Eurasia Terra, the prosecution of which is the main thing that makes America “great”.
Frum, in a POS column published the day before Brooks’s (but across the pond), under the headline “Republicans need to start offering answers,” is more explicit:
If the 2008 presidential election were all about Iraq, John McCain would win.
According to the authoritative Pew poll, Americans have become steadily more optimistic about Iraq over the past 15 months. Almost one-half the American public now thinks the Iraq war is going “very” or “fairly” well – up 18 points since before the surge.
The public is now evenly divided between those who want to maintain the commitment to Iraq and those who want to begin winding it down – an 11 point shift. Only 14 per cent of Americans want an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
The rest of the column is also like Brooks’s, only with bolder lies and more transparently insincere sympathy with the middle class’s pain [it would be a good column for Brad DeLong to demolish if he could ever stop being a huge jackass]. As for the public’s attitude to the war: well, they hate it. Also, you can’t expect neoconmen to rationally appraise anyone’s opinion of their Precious. Still, the weird poll numbers they cite do reflect something troubling to decent people but comforting to sociopathic neoconmen: the persisting susceptibility of the public to fear-mongering and demagoguery.
Why do neoconmen want perpetual war so much (aside from the psychological dividends it pays these sickfucks personally)? There are many reasons, from short-term electoral ones to long-term economic designs[2] but the most important undergirds the whole wingnut kulturkampf: Neoconmen hate Americans, they see us as soft, decadent, unpatriotic, impious, anarchic. War, they think (and not without reason), will rectify these faults and make Americans into a more perfect people. So long as there’s war and a plausible boogeyman (beware, Teh Muslim is lurking under your bed, just waiting for you to tire of the long vigil so that he may throw acid in your wife’s face, shoot your dog, ban pork chops, park camels in your garage, and suicide bomb your children’s school bus!), Americans will fear. And as long as Americans fear, they are extremely pliable to the manipulations of the rightwing which always sees itself as the “loyal party.” Inculcate fear, then aggression and paranoia are sure to follow (which, in turn, nicely reinforces pro-war sentiment which begets more fear, etc.) until, hopefully, a critical mass of batshit insanity is achieved. The endgame, of course, is the militarization of society, in which a cowed people embrace the most cornball-yet-Satanic 1950s bourgeois-McCarthyite values. Thus, neoconmen will accept, if they must, a return of Eisenhowerian tax rates, “big government,” etc., as long as it means they get to keep their new Cold War. Fuck the Iraqis’ lives[3], it’s the American people’s character they’re trying to “save;” and it’s John “Permanent Occupation” McCain who’s mostly likely to deliver the desired result.
Notes:
[1] Cootie alert, factor bazillion. But Yggie the Stooge is right here even if it’s many years too late not to mention ripping-off arguments by far more prescient and decent people.
[2] Every dollar spent on a bomb is a dollar not spent on, say, food stamps. Plus interest.
[3] Brent Scowcroft: “I don’t think [Richard] Perle gives a shit about democracy. Fundamentally, it’s all a means to an end.” [As quoted in Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle, by Alan Weisman]
I think we need to urge McCain to pay close, close attention to the brilliant, amazing, insightful tactical advice by writers such as David Brooks, Bill Kristol, such radio personalities as Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage, and such TV personalities as Glenn Beck and former Helms campaign director Alex Castellanos.
By following their advice to the letter, McCain will be able to capture every last electoral vote, it will be a complete sweep with 80 or 90% of both Republicans and Democrats voting for him.
Please keep repeating this over and over and over.
A brilliant article.
Please stop writing things like “teh” and “lolz”. It gives me a headache.
I just like how these guys keep penning columns that try to convince the majority of people that the majority of people support the war.
Statistically, what do you think is going to happen? The guy reading the paper will think to himself, “I don’t support the war. I know very few people who support the war. So who the fuck are Brooks, et al talking about?”
At this point, these guys are chipping away at their own credibility as they continue to insist that shit tastes great and McCain makes a mean shit sandwich. We’ve been eating shit for the last 7 years. We know better.
That said, this paints a big bright bullseye on the more foolish pundits in the American discourse. No longer can the Kristols and the Broders of the world hide behind massive salaries and established Ivory Tower positions to defend their laughable claims. The most brutalized victim of the Iraq War is going to be trust. People won’t trust this shit from anyone for a long, long, long time.
Please stop writing things like “teh” and “lolz”.
DO NOT WANT!!!
It gives me a headache.
kthnxbai!!!
It gives me a headache.
My asprin. Let me show you them.
If the GOP sponsored sunrise, there would be nothing but gloom; sunrise would be outsourced to Halliburton for $100 billion and there would never be another sunrise again.
I love you, Retardo
At this point, these guys are chipping away at their own credibility
If only that were really true. Unfortunately, the credibility never wanes.
Well goddamn. I think I’ll go off to Applebee’s and raid their salad bar.
Yep.
Yessir.
You Betcha.
Goddam right.
Corrupt, dishonest, unpopular, minority and authoritarian regimes have long understood that the ONLY real way to maintain power in the face of a large, angry disgruntled population is to keep that population occupied with a great threat by a hated and implacable adversary. There is significant value, in this endeavor, to controlling the press.
However, twenty first century america is an example of something more dangerous, more disingenuous, more perfidious. This is not technically a government controlled media. The stories are investigated and written by journalists employed by “independent” entities in a constitutionally protected process. And the tiny, remaining efforts at real commercial journalism, McClatchy certainly and on occasion the Times, only serves to point up just exactly how far down that slippery slope we’ve slid, the skirts of our integrity up around our waists, grasstains on our elbows covering the collusion.
For these journalistic institutions have chosen, essentially of their own free will, to support, defend and expand the political power of one class, one group, represented by one party, all the while they continue to spout indignant platitudes about what they believe and what they do.
One of the great ironies is that, under president Obama, we will get to watch these great investigative machines grind back into motion after eight long years of grinning, subservient prostration, as they seek to discover anything personal and ugly about Obama in order to launch a barrage of their Weapons of Mass Distraction against any hope of repairing the damage, serving the people, any attempt to actually, merely Govern…
mikey
…we will get to watch these great investigative machines grind back into motion after eight long years of grinning, subservient prostration, as they seek to discover anything personal and ugly about Obama…
I think you’re right, Mikey, but I also think they won’t bother to investigate – they’ll just make stuff up or get it from the equivalents of Chalabi.
Thanks for the information.
Isn’t the implication of brooks’ column (which I refuse to read) that democrats are always the party of great ideas but republicans are the great executioners (sic) of ideas? That is, same old same old, democrats are so elitist and imaginative and wordy and, well, creative in a gay kind of way but it takes a real man of little imagination, few words, a manly walk and a military stalk to carry them out. This ought to go on the same pile with liberal hawk approaches to the Iraq war “such a great idea/such poor execution! whoever could have known that….” Sure, let me grant that McCain might be *just the guy* to carry out democratic orders and ideas with ruthless efficiency (just for the sake of the argument) but *he’s not going to* carry out those ideas because he’s a fucking republican so he prefers really stupid and crazy ideas. And by the way? They are actually not so hot on the carryign out of plans. FYI.
aimai
they’ll just make stuff up or get it from the equivalents of Chalabi.
AKA, Matt Drudge, the Politico, and the rest of the Republican bottom feeders…
Look, I’m sure there are some comic geeks around here. Dr. Doom as the enemy of hubris? That’s Fantastic! Fantasically ridiculous.
Although Brooks kinda does look a bit like a wussy version of Victor.
David Brooks IS the secret identity… of NOT a Superhero.
I’d like to see David Brooks, Bill Kristol, and Fred Hiatt all go visit Iraq on a fact finding mission.
And they don’t get to come back until they find one.
There’s just too much fucking money tied up in war. Too much money.
As my mother always said, “You can kill their children and rape their women, but don’t ever fuck with their money.”
Want to trade? Got one David Brooke, Want one Brooke Davis. Willing to thrown in Bill Kristol.
Wait, you mean that opening paragraph WASN’T a joke? I’m…I’m…
True, mikey. Funny things happen, though, right at the moment when such a corrupt and unpopular minority is on the brink of total perpetual majority and domination.
When Barnes&Noble went public in the early-mid 90s, they were the unstoppable juggernaut that was obliterating small bookstores and taking over the country…just as Amazon.com opened for business. Today B&N is gasping;
When Clear Channel owned 99.999% of all radio stations and was unstoppable, at the peak of its power, a little guy in a black mock turtleneck introduced…the iPod. today Clear Channel is basically finished;
And when Karl Rove and Cheney, Bush, et al were at the peak of their powers? Sadly, No! came into being…
Okay, so coincidence isn’t causation, or whatever, but there’s a poetic justice here. The wingnuts were THISCLOSE to owning everything, everywhere, forever, and I credit these goddamn dirty lefty hippie blogs with basically blowing the fuckers out of the water. So there.
Yeeees! And if my dick were 50′ long I could stick a light on top and warn ships away from the coast when I went to the beach.
Gosh, this is a fun game. Make a meaningless statement to prove … uh … well … did I mention what I’d do if my dick were 50′ long?
It didn’t get past this guy.
Oh god, that’s got my sides hurting.
Of course, the 2008 presidential election is about Iraq.
Gee, even when Brooksie sets himself up, he can’t come to a sensible conclusion.
“If I had a functioning brain, I wouldn’t write the same column over and over.”
The fact is, I’ve reported this blog to the Department of Heartland Security.
glad you read brooks so i dont have to
speaking of mccain, was he separated at birth?
Perhaps you should reapply for that blogging opportunity and provide this post as an example. Nobody else keeps on top of this BS (and rips wingers new assholes) as well as you guys do.
People need to be continuously reminded of the insidious and subtle digs as well as the blatant ones.
Speaking of the phony, NTodd has side by side pix of the McBush fake smile and the more relaxed Obama smile. For what it’s worth.
For all Obama’s flaws, the one thing he doesn’t seem to have is repressed rage and a tight ass. I can’t wait to see a Democrat in the Whitehouse again. God, for the nation it’s going to be like releasing a whole load of gas from a constipated colon in one go the day he’s elected.
The Sweet Smell of Success!
“God, for the nation it’s going to be like releasing a whole load of gas from a constipated colon in one go the day he’s elected.”
Does that come with a complementary colonoscopy?
Guys, I think I’ve found McCain’s target demographic!
Apparently, cute fuzzy animals say we’re winning.
Gary reminds me of that Far Side cartoon of where the alleged man’s trench coat opens and a whole load of chickens tumble out.
“it’s going to be like releasing a whole load of gas from a constipated colon…”
There’s a lot more than gas up there.
Gary Ruppert when he wakes up in the morning.
John McCain campaign meeting
I’ve got four Gary Larson books so there’s plenty more where that came from, if I can just get the flash to perform…
Gary reminds me of that Far Side cartoon of where the alleged man’s trench coat opens and a whole load of chickens tumble out.
Yes!
Sadly, I can’t find that cartoon.
This will have to do, for now.
I’m looking for it… if I find it, will Photoshop and link.
Guys, I think I’ve found McCain’s target demographic!
Imagine that. Someone who dresses up a squirrel as if it’s a GIJoe is also a loyal Bushie.
Make sure you scroll down to Ol’ Sugarbush getting Saddam’s gallows ready.
So, who ya gonna believe, your lyin’ eyes or the PEW (phew!) research center? Could they find a more trustworthy name? Sure! The PEE-U research center? STINK-Y research center? Or the POOPY research center? Or maybe the GLOP research center? I could go on and on and- glurp!
Sorry. Just parachuting in from Realityland, but seriously, who the fuck decided that being imaginative and creative was a bad thing and that being a rigidly tonguetied bumbledick was good? Who? I want to lay blame on a single, specific person, goddammit.
It’s a soother, like a pacifier… the thought that is doesn’t matter that one cannot grasp complexities and has the creative abilities of headcheese.
I always imagine their psyche whining, “Stop making me feel stupid and mean!”
Mean, at least, is curable.
the alleged man’s trench coat opens and a whole load of chickens tumble out.
It were ducks, as I recall.
“You never saw this, Miss Moneypenny! It never happened!”
Mortician is a natural for american business.
Blame assessment is the most important function we assign.
The fact that we don’t have a VP for Blame Assessment only indicates the actual importance of that role.
And that, to borrow a phrase, is central to my point…
mikey
I tell ’em.
Motherfucker.
Eat a big bag’o ducks.
What?
mikey
The fact is, Gary Ruppert tried to climb my dick. But he’s afraid of heights.
Dincha know? Life is a cheesy espionage novel.
Since we’re talking about trenchcoats.
How many Gary Rupperts does it take to change the light bulb on the end of Arky’s dick?
It were ducks, as I recall.
“You never saw this, Miss Moneypenny! It never happened!”
ducks, chickens….either way it’s fowl.
Danged if I can find it. You wouldn’t happen to know which book it’s in wouldya Mr Smutclyde?
closing italics.
Give it up.
Davids Frum & Brooks, Dicks Perle and Cheney, and Johns McCain, Podhoretz and Wayne are against you goddam hippies.
Resistance is futile. Facts are futile. You will adapt.
Thunder said: “I’d like to see David Brooks, Bill Kristol, and Fred Hiatt all go visit Iraq on a fact finding mission. And they don’t get to come back until they find one.”
Do you mean they can’t come back until they find a fact, or until they find a mission?
Hey, I’ll say this for Monty, he at least admits that the facts are against him.
Unlike a certain other troll…
Great future debate line for Obama: “If there were any WMD in Iraq, they would have been found by now.”
Seriously, how does McCain answer that? Does he admit his party lied (excuse me, I mean “repeatedly stated as matters of absolute fact things they knew or should have know were false”) and this was never about WMD? Or does he insist that Saddam’s WMD, like Mulder’s Truth, are Out There?
“The most brutalized victim of the Iraq War is going to be trust.”
In Europe and America perhaps. Iraqis may feel otherwise.
As to loss of credibility and subsequent shaming, I doubt it. One of the defining features of the Pundit Wanker class is their ability to hold on to high profile gigs, and be taken seriously as experts, despite the stream of drivel they invariably produce.
Heh. I’m not a troll.
Try turning on your sarcastometer.
Try turning on your sarcastometer.
Umm, by stroking it’s shaft of irony?
Or perhaps by licking it’s nub of hilarity?
Oh. I know. By touching it’s snark in the dark with a top quark…
mikey
You wouldn’t happen to know which book it’s in wouldya Mr Smutclyde?
Do you take me for some pathetic nerd with no life?
Page 139 of the Far Side Gallery II.
“…they won’t bother to investigate – they’ll just make stuff up or get it from the equivalents of Chalabi.”
Harkin, Halliburton, Enron Whitewater. Champagne Unit Swift Boat. Rev. Hagee Wright.
Anyone remember the vandalized White House tale of 2001, complete with the ‘W’ missing from computer keyboards? Many pathetic wankers right-wing columnists reported this lie as truth, and none of them admitted to it when the GSA debunked the story. Responsibility and accountability are for Democrats and liberals — so the Party of God, Guns and Gay-Bashers hath spoken.
OK, why does strikethrough work in preview, but not in post?
test
Strikethrough is a tease.
Oh, a sarcastometer. That’s a real useful invention.
your doin it wrongah, I don’t have that one, Clyde
I have
The Far Side
Beyond the Far Side
Wildlife Preserves
The Far Side Observer
Wiener Dog Art
I know it’s in one of these…just have to find it.
I actually believe in causation over cause, but that’s probably because of causations. It’s a fine line.
I am kidding, by the way.
Dubya is personally directing the crazy-glueing of all the O keys in the West Wing with a relish usually reserved for brush-clearing.
Thank you for including Iraqui lives. We keep hearing about “4000 lives lost.” Bullshit. A million Iraquis have been killed, many more millions displaced, and many more millions ruined. What a fucking nightmare.
Do you take me for some pathetic nerd with no life?
Only if you post on a certain wanker’s blog.
Of course, no one we know would ever stoop that low.
The world may never know.
What would this Pew research prove besides the fact that voters are idiots?
It just strikes me as a variation of the “This restaurant has awful food, and the portions are so small!” thing. I mean, McCain would do the wrong thing, but he’d be better at it? What kind of thinking is that?
Why is Brooks still paid by the Times? His content is awful, but even beyond that, he’s stylistically terrible. I mean, Dr. Doom doesn’t strike me as a guy known for deflating the pompous, except by saying, “You pathetic insects could never understand my plans!”
You pretty much know what Brooks means, but he rarely actually uses the correct words. Seriously, there’s examples of this all the time. How does he still have a job?
with apologies to aimai and Jerry Lee Lewis
Ohhh, baybee, you KNOW what I like!
Blustering talk and threats half-cocked,
And a big long dick, hangin’ down.
A manly walk with some military stalk,
Makes the world go round.
There ain’t nothing I’ve known like a neocon
To make me act so frightened get my hatred heightened,
Make me feel real bad like a dog gone mad
LIke a whoa, neocon, oh baybee that’s what I like!
testjust put “strike” between the less than greater than signs, not the whole word “strikeout”.
It is funny that all of the standard bearers of this belligerent, neo-con world view are the biggest pack of flaccid, nerdy and pallid weaklings I have ever seen in my life.
An anemic vegan could wipe out the AEI preatorian guard armed with a fondue stick and a frisbee.
-GSD
An anemic vegan could wipe out the AEI preatorian guard armed with a fondue stick and a frisbee.
I’m pretty sure that the frisbee would be overkill……by some considerable measure.
Eat a big bag’o ducks.
Man, I had some duck Memorial Day Sunday. Wood duck the guy’s boss shot and cut up. He carried it in a bag, if memory serves. It was pretty damn tasty, as a matter of fact, as game fowl usually. So, yeah, bag ‘o duck is a good thing, I think.
From Urban Dictionary
“kthnxbai: Possibly the stupidest way of trying to end an argument ever. Used by prissy internet douchebags.”
just saying
I’ve often heard the Reich-wing that they are in trouble because they’ve betrayed their core principles.
I’ve often though that their core principals sucked.
America would become a large gated community, women go back to the kitchen bare-foot and pregnant.
No rush to solve the so-called global warming “issue”. The Reich-wing’s gw policy is “DO NOTHING NOW!!!”
Need to get the kids on board with that one mr. republipig.
We have tons and tons of coal we can burn while all the scientists and talking teevee heads have it worked out to the satisfaction of both… all the while Big Energy’s profits soar.
If there is an uptick in poll numbers of people who think the Iraq debacle is going “fairly well” there is only one reason:
[This is all from an excellent article on the subject.]
Research has proven that if a newspaper runs a lot of murder and crime stories on its front page for a couple of weeks, even if the number of murders or the crime rate hasn’t increased, there will be a concomitant increase in negative poll numbers about crime. Press coverage accounts for a lot. So, you know, surprise suprise and all that.
“Sugar Bush Squirrel is a real, live Eastern Gray Squirrel who is owned and photographed by Ms. Kelly Foxton. Rescued, as a baby in her nest, from a tree which was being cut down, she is now living the ‘good life’ with Kelly in Boca Raton, Florida. A small, lime-green parrot, named Rio, is her big sister and constant companion.
Being an International Superstar and The World’s Most Photographed Squirrel, Sugar Bush loves to dress up, and has over 2,000 outfits with matching hats and accessories.”
And every night before bedtime, Sugar Bush silently prays for the death that was so cruelly stolen from her.
The fact is, you can take your elite coastal enclaves and shove them up your ass. We here in the Heartland are in search of truth and justice, and we have found it with Bush and Cheney. We beleive McCain would carry on the good work, but Bush and Cheney are the best at it, so we hope there is an emergency that renders elections suspended until the war on terror is over. We cannot trust our safety to demogogs who lie about our leaders and the threat and the war in iraq that it is keeping us safe well it is. US Power is shown awesome to the world and you blame USA first? Self hating liberal classwar elitists should be in camps, where they can indoctrinate no more youth in the academy and in the media, which is biased and tilted left, which is not fair.
PS. I am jackin’ it as I type this.
Pssss! Don’t look now, but Atlas’ Juggs dreamboat John Bolton The Raving says — OMG you won’t believe he thinks this — Obama is dangerously naive.
He even uses a classic phrase of wingnut Green Lantern tough guy rants on foreign policy which simultaneously may thrill the crotch-based urges of so many neo-Khan pundit fans: “the hard men”.
But to show his dedication to true right wing freakitude, does Bolton restrain himself to denouncing Kennedy’s supposed foolishness before Kruschev or how Saint Ronnie barely saved us from Soviet indirect attack in El Salvador or Nicaragua or Angola or Mozambique?
Sadly, No! Bolton goes further — reminding us of the Italian threat we narrowly faced down.
Keep in mind that what he’s referring to is the first giant covert action by the post-WWII U.S. — the subversion of Italian elections so that the Western, democratic Socialists couldn’t win. Mind you, quite a few European governments have been socialist since then, and although it may have made John Bolton cry, it did not actually prove a catastrophe for them or us.
Captain Kangaragnarok also manages to go after — wait for it — San Francisco, America-hating hippie leftists AND Walter Mondale!!!!
If only Obama had had more time to chase down female subordinates screaming at them and banging on their doors and remarking publicly how the UN could lose several floors and be fine.
And if only President Obama can screw up enough courage to nominate as UN Ambassador someone half as entertainingly mad as John Bolton. Did I say UN Ambassador? Oh, I meant court jester.
Geez, for the old days, when someone like Bolton got a cable access show and people would sensibly ignore him until a clip showed up on Talk Soup.
We’ve had three decades of conservative whining that “yer doin it wrong” and when they get ALL the levers of power, we realize that, indeed, bad as it was before, it can be made infinitely worse.
We didn’t realize the “doin it wrong” part was the relative lack of wholesale mayhem and destruction.
So I admit they were right all these years.
The fact is, know who we got here? Motherfuckin’ Charlie Bronson.
Gary, did you know that a black man will soon be in charge of all of Bush’s Relocation Camps, some now filled with Mexican women and kids and men? And he will soon have “near-dictatorial powers” over you? And you no longer have the Bill of Rights to protect you?
Tremble in fear, little conservative!! Your greatest fear is about to come true–the Brown People are comin’ to getcha if you don’t watch out!
Rightous Bubba is right. I’m having fun insulting Gary.
I’m sorry, Gary. It’s not your fault your parents didn’t love you, you never learned how to love, and now you troll websites looking for acknowledgement that you actually exist.
Had Italy, for example, gone communist during the 1950s or 1960s, it would have been an inconvenient defeat for the United States but a catastrophe for the people of Italy.
Yeah, because Italy’s political history since WWII has been completely stable, with no volatility whatsoever.
Ha, John Bolton doesn’t like Obama…prepare the smelling salts, I’m feeling faint.
Honestly, Obama should trumpet the opprobrium of John Bolton from the freaking rooftops. I would. It’s just about the best contrary indicator available that O-man is just what we need.
“did I mention what I’d do if my dick were 50? long?”
Thank God you could find SOMETHING to do with it.
now you troll websites looking for acknowledgement that you actually exist.
But he doesn’t. Does he?
But what if the GOP sponsored dead soldiers, poisoned toys, tainted meat and 95% interest rates on consumer loans? What would Americans prefer then?
P.A.T. iz in ur cupboard takin all ur Excedrin!! LOLZ!11!
Harry Cheddar, after viewing that Sugar Bush Squirrel site, I’m going to have nightmares for some time to come. If ever there was an animal in need of liberation it’s that poor squirrel.
Just wait – Samantha Powers has been on special assignment, finding a suitable bukket. He’ll turn …
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Gary Ruppert: for we are many.
Alexander Haig let a very big cat out of a very dark bag, back in the late 1980s, when he wistfully foretold of the coming social trend that – as it just so happens – would serve the neocons under Bush Jr. so very well: “BIZWAR” … letting neocons have their cake & eat it too, with all the sweet gore & conquest … without the icky risk of war-tribunals or reparations. The even more obscene level of corporate plunder enabled by privatizing war would merely be the icing on the neo-militarist sundae of a totally martial & monolithic society, kept in a state of total & permanent terror, lest the New & Improved Lemony-Fresh McArmyTM turn its cannons on THEM.
Just say Blackwater.