politics, mostly NP with a glance at Vineland

[Otto]

"If we have a military strategy, I can't identify it," (...) "I don't
know what's worse -- that they have one and won't tell us or that they
don't have one."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000293_2.html

2006/10/2, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>:
> The lastest news and sports:
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> http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/foreigndesk/detail?blogid=16&entry_id=9386
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> From where I'm sitting, looks like the Tower card (atu XVI) in the Crowley/Harris deck. Like a war machine devouring itself.
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
> > Otto:
> >
> > >As long as books like Bob Woodward's ...can be published in the US I
> > >don't think that this is an accurate description! Can you imagine
> > >that this would have been possible in fascist Germany, Italy or
> > >Spain in the Thirties?
> >
> > Part of the problem with 'fascist' as an adjective is that the word
> > has gained broader definition and variant meanings since the
> > Thirties. This leads to tangential debates as advocates of tighter
> > and slacker meanings go a few rounds on the relevance, accuracy and
> > appropriateness of the word in the debate of the moment.
> >
> > The question here could be phrased:  are the current developing forms
> > of corporate/state control and authority in the US leading towards a
> > society comparable to 1930s fascism. If so are we beyond the point
> > where there is a way back, or is through the only way out?
> >
> > Mike
> >
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