Chomsky nails it, Tracy doesn't

[alice wellintown]

I'm not big into the Middle East Political happenings, but they have
been difficult to ignore for at least a few decades. I'm more into
capital and finance happenings. I find the story now quite sad and
perhaps more frustrating than ever because I think Obama needs money
and hasn't got enough to do what needs to be done and what is, even
with a ton of dollars, a huge job. He's talking the right talk. Doubt
he can walk it and that is too bad. The Arab Spring, I fear, will not
bring a better life to most people in that troubled region of the
globe. The NY Times had a handful of articles on the problems Obama
faces. The values thing is what he's trying to sell; like the region
is a collection of former Soviet states pulled into the EU. But that's
not the situation he faces at all. And there is no money. The money
that is about is in the hands of Kings and rich and powerful who fear
funding Obama's plan. Maybe Obama should hand the mess off to the
Chinese. Let them take a crack at it. I read they have plenty of
Chomsky-types in China's prisons.



> That's OK, I wasn't offended or anything. There are different ways of
> looking at the world.  i remember chanting in '67, hey, hey, LBJ, how many
> kids did you kill today. You can't ascribe it just to youth.  I was by then
> well into middle age.  Now here I am today defending a wartime president on
> the grounds that he is doing the best he can under the circumstances, even
> though I believe both current wars are doing far more harm than any possible
> good that could come from them.  It's nuts, as I'm pretty sure Jed would
> agree.