Fwd: (np) good article for today

[Michael Bailey]

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From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: (np) good article for today
To: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>


But the reason they wanted to cobble together an excuse to attack Iraq — is
that deep seated need for control and empery that the article’s premises
(go way over the top to) limn…

Perhaps the author even knows he is hyperbolizing (which Pynchon never
does, of course) by the time he gets to Rumsfeld figuring that bombing Iraq
will get his daughter to break up with the white guy with dreadlocks?

Yeah, Rumsfeld, great dude who had no trouble ramrodding approval for
NutraSweet thru FDA over vigorous objections of scientists, and then
accepting $12 million from Monsanto after they bought Searle. And I’m sure
he was a lot of help at the Pentagon…

Not to speak ill of the dead. Requiescat in pace, Rummie, you go to the
Bardo Thodol with the karma you’ve got, not the karma you might want.
And nobody’s perfect. God bless and heaven help us all.

 But I think the Interceptor was right: the war on terror was itself mondo
scary, and reflects the personalities of its architects.


On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 4:53 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> What the Interceptor guy wrote is ridiculous; the way so many feelingful,
> idealistic progressives go into fantasyland, into
> being mirrors of Right Wing crazies. Conspiracy explanations beyond
> reality all the time.
>
> Knowing a little history--looking it up-- and refusing to be so stupid
> will lead one to understand that what Rumsfeld was talking about
> was bad enough just as it was: wanting to gather all the info he could to
> justify--lead to---the conclusion that the US had to attack Iraq
> now and take out Saddam Hussein.
>
> Rumsfeld had not the power to even be Ahab, if one wants to work that
> metaphor; he was Stubb if anyone. Bush would be Ahab if he hadn't
> let Cheney be him.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 4:04 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
>> Rumsfeld as Ahab?
>> > The “it,” then, that Rumsfeld wanted to destroy on 9/11 was almost
>> > certainly every frustration he felt at the rest of humanity.
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