Reply #39: An easy enough mistake, the way I said it. [View All]

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I think he is sometimes too facile, lacks nuance, and is too
moralistic. It's not that I'm opposed to morals, but it tends
to muddy things up in international affairs, one needs to be
very cold-blooded to make the right decisions when whatever you
do, a lot of people are going to get screwed, it's easy to just
pick a good side and screw everybody else, and that will bite
you in the ass in the end.

But then, he is really a genius at linguistics, this other stuff
is a sideline that got out of hand.

He does actually document his positions fairly well, and I do find
his analyses very illuminating at times.

My point was this: Hitler, for example, was a competent
evil dictator. He understood what he was about. He exerted
all his efforts on building up his industrial base and
war-making capacity and uniting the human base that runs it all.
The Amerikan ruling class has been eviscerating out industrial
base, education system, and war-making capacity for the last
thirty-five years. Hitler understood the basics of power
politics, you divide, weaken and distract you true opponents
and suck up to and court the more distant or smaller players
that you do not fear. The Amerikan ruling class for the last
fifty years or so has been bullying smaller players all over
the world, and is now in the process of unifying and strengthening
the larger players that will soon bring it down.

They want to be a world empire, buy they do not know what they are
about. We are ruled by an ignorant, incompetent, decadent, and
foolish plutocracy that has been riding the great success that we
had in WWII. After WWII we really did bestride the world like a
colossus, and the only thing they could think of to do with that
was to get their snouts in the trough of consumption as deeply as
they could for as long as they could. And now they are trying to
hold onto the last bit of that for as long as they can by pretending
that nothing has changed in the last 50 years. I think the fact the
we have someone of the caliber of Mr. Bush as our President speaks
for itself as to where we are geo-politically.