re: #34 The Ghost of a Flea

— and the American government gives coupons to those countries while claiming that there is a larger stability (Picture not Found) that must be maintained…which sounds reasonable if you live inside a house of whig-colored glass where you never encounter the thought that American interests creating the crisis it must now police—with a lot of help from the KSA, and in the case of Iran, oil companies—and thus it’s stance of “stay the course” kind of seems like stalling tactics ticked-off in lives of random Arabs.

If you want people to respect realism, you can’t constantly hide behind a fiction in which past “realistic” choices haven’t created current consequences.

Are you familiar with this book? Almost a hundred years old, written mostly about US actions in Central America and the Caribbean, but applies just as much to the Middle East and Asia.

(Butler is the most decorated US Marine ever, including the Medal of Honor twice for actions in two different wars. He’s who the Businessman’s Plot wanted to lead the Bonus Army to overrthow Roosevelt and institute a fascist US Gov’t in the 1930’s)