Monday, June 04, 2007
Oh, them...
Excuse me, but remember the cold war? That's right, there was this other "super-power" know as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or some-such. Yeah, them. Reagan took care of all that, remember?
And now that the United Snakes practices Corporate Board Diplomacy exclusively, it seems that ignoring other countries is working out as well now as it did for Louis and Marie in 1789. Mikhail Gorbachev summed it up nicely on a recent Radio Four interview, the gist of which can be seen in this BBC News article. How can it be that an entire administration simply ignores Vladimir Putin's KGB roots, and continues to operate in a vacuum of politically savvy leadership. Why is it that the cavalier attitude that there is no judgement after the Rapture is allowed to foster a policy of widespread corporate theft and plunder of all wealth on the planet? Hey, how's that extradition treaty with Dubai working out?
The unfortunate outcome of all this arrogant cowboy diplomacy is that it will fulfill the accusatory rhetoric of the unscrupulous world "leaders" who will co-opt genuine anger at the good ol' USA for their own despotic purposes. We'll be left behind a technological eight-ball, with an undereducated underclass military, a precarious economy that is largely paper, and a population that is unwilling and unable to defend a way of life that, while deliciously valid, may become irrelevant in yet another new world order.
And now that the United Snakes practices Corporate Board Diplomacy exclusively, it seems that ignoring other countries is working out as well now as it did for Louis and Marie in 1789. Mikhail Gorbachev summed it up nicely on a recent Radio Four interview, the gist of which can be seen in this BBC News article. How can it be that an entire administration simply ignores Vladimir Putin's KGB roots, and continues to operate in a vacuum of politically savvy leadership. Why is it that the cavalier attitude that there is no judgement after the Rapture is allowed to foster a policy of widespread corporate theft and plunder of all wealth on the planet? Hey, how's that extradition treaty with Dubai working out?
The unfortunate outcome of all this arrogant cowboy diplomacy is that it will fulfill the accusatory rhetoric of the unscrupulous world "leaders" who will co-opt genuine anger at the good ol' USA for their own despotic purposes. We'll be left behind a technological eight-ball, with an undereducated underclass military, a precarious economy that is largely paper, and a population that is unwilling and unable to defend a way of life that, while deliciously valid, may become irrelevant in yet another new world order.
