pretzel logic

[Otto]

No More Bratwurst!
By MAUREEN DOWD
"They rule their world ruthlessly and insolently, deciding who will get a
cold shoulder, who will get locked out of the power clique and who will get
withering glares until they grovel and obey the arbitrary dictates of the
leaders.
We could be talking about the middle-school alpha girls, smug cheerleaders
with names like Darcy, Brittany and Whitney.
But, no, we're talking about the ostensibly mature and seasoned leaders of
the Western world, a slender former cheerleader named W. and his
high-hatting clique - Condi, Rummy and Cheney.
(...)
In their eagerness to apply adolescent torture methods, Bush hawks seem to
have forgotten history: Do we really want to punish the Germans for being
pacifists? Once those guys get rolling in the other direction, they don't
really know how to put the brakes on."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/25/opinion/25DOWD.html

btw, the Dutch are producing the best peanut-butter -- it's Calvé Pindakaas.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "lorentzen-nicklaus" <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 12:35 PM
Subject: pretzel logic


>
>
>  ° last night i heard the historian dan diner talking on tv about the
changes
>  in us-politics: for the first time in history, diner said, the streamings
of
>  'isolationism' and 'interventionism', during the 19th and 20th century
>  antagonists in american foreign politics, are flowing together. yes, i
guess
>  one could say so. in policy fields like public international law or
>  climate-change (very relevant again over here since middle europe's
recent
>  flood-catastrophy) the bush-administration does not give a fuck for the
rest of
>  the world. as bush sr. once put it: "our life-style is not debatable".
yesyes,
>  and human rights are exclusively violated by "evil-doers", eh? more and
more i
>  understand what sloterdijk means when he says that, unlike europe, the
usa are
>  still caught in a dark imperialistic dream (btw: will cuba after fidel's
death
>  become a state of the us?) which makes them, in a certain sense,
unreachable
>  for rational argumentation. brutal realpolitik covered with phony
rhetorics....
>  when we talk about the dangers of terrorism and about 9/11, the first
country
>  to blame would of course be saudi-arabia: that's where money, (most)
people and
>  this specific brand of dshihad-terrorism do come from! but of course -
airbases
>  & oil make partners in crime - this will never happen. where's saddam's
threat
>  to the us? i mean, it's touching that the bush-administration cares about
>  southern europe and even - big bitter laugh! - the kurds, but that's
hardly a
>  reason to send the boys abroad.... (by the way, condie, i guess it's
overdoing
>  it a little to say that "america sent her sons to free the german people
from
>  hitler".... it weren't so much - think of the morgenthau-boys and their
plans -
>  the german people america wanted to free: this was an accepted
side-effect but
>  certainly not on the list of priorities). and if saddam really is so
stupid to
>  attack israel, sharon, as he confirmed recently more than once, will drop
>  nuclear bombs on bagdad immediately. so where's the beef? sure, iraq
still has
>  biological and chemical weapons, but not half as much as they had in the
late
>  1980s. and when yesterday's oh so substancial 'blair-paper' (this "45
minutes"
>  -formulation is, i have to admit, kinda catchy....) says that saddam can
get a
>  working bomb in 2 years, then this is,  i'm sorry to tell you, not very
>  impressive: taken today's market-situation many countries could do this.
>  (personally i worry more about the nuclear weapons of pakistan but this
nation
>  is, as we all know, a close friend from the coalition against terror....)
>  perhaps this coming war is still stoppable, perhaps.... and if so,
germany (now
>  again a player on the political world-stage) will perhaps play the role
the
>  magic mountain wants her to play: a mediator between the east and the
west....
>  but don't worry: existing law-regulations (this was the prize for
america's
>  support of the german re-unification) allow the us-army to use its german
>  airbases any time they like. so when the war starts the german people,
chewing
>  on peanutbutter-sandwiches ("barney's best: crunchy"), will raise their
heads
>  to the sky and sing:
>
>  "hear the scream, hear the scream...."
>
>
>                                                       später, kai °°°
>
>

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