At a moment in history when Libya seems to be participating in a reenactment of the Spanish Civil War, and when Americans are blasà � about torture, and when the unions are facing a political massacre in Wisconsin, one might have to concede that one more stolen (just to keep the conspiracy theory nuts happy) election might be a possible scenario.
Americans seem rather subdued when establishing a "no fly zone" in Libya is discussed. Why wasn't a "no fly zone" established in the Guernica area during the Spanish Civil War? Why was the rest of the world so complacent back then, but not now? Can't we all just ignore localized manifestations of civil unrest? Did the rebels make the same mistake that Erwin "The Desert Fox" Rommel made and overextend their supply lines?
If Obama fails to solve the Riddle-in-Libyan-politics correctly, will JEB get to say: "My brother predicted this would happen and Obama fumbled the ball."? Why is the national political media ignoring the link between what is happening in the Middle East now and the George W. Bush prediction that a wave of pro-democracy sentiment would be unleashed by the American attempt to establish democracy in Iraq? Is the American media not free to say that? If so, who is muzzling them and why are they doing that?
Wash your hands and start rereading this column again.
Che Guevera said: "The laws of capitalism, blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the individual without his thinking about it. He sees only the vastness of a seemingly infinite horizon before him. That is how it is painted by capitalist propagandists, who purport to draw a lesson from the example of Rockefeller--whether or not it is true--about the possibilities of success. The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this."
Now the disk jockey will play "Red Rubber Ball," "Ain't we crazy," and Wagner's Gotterdammerung. We have to go hunt up enough information about the rumor that Che was seen in Tobruk recently (yeah, yeah, yeah we know about the photo on Felix Rodriguez's desk. We refer the reader back to the "bullet proof vest" trick earlier in this column.) Have an "I was sure he was dead" type week.
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