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Netanyahu Goes Into Damage Control Mode

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The Ghost of a Flea2/07/2015 10:24:27 am PST

re: #38 jaunte

True, it’s just still amazing there is a huge audience willing to thoughtlessly accept what Bolling says, despite easy access to reams of evidence to the contrary.

Having just come off of last thread’s tail end discussion of supporting dictator’s to “fight Communism,”* it really needs to be stressed that what Americans thoughtlessly accept can mean tremendous ugliness for other parts of the world.

And yes, I’m resentful as fuck, because it’s people I love who got messed up in Pakistan because the US loved conservative military dictators over any kind of leftist…and in Pakistan, that meant propping up the Deobandi and the Islamists in the ISI. It’s rather…vexing…that post-9/11 people have started getting all “screw those shifty Pakistanis, they’re not our friends!”

It’s like the parable about the man carrying the snake across the river. Except the many selects a pit viper to graduate school to get a dual MS in being poison and fucking unreliable, collaborates with it on kicking the shit out of a bunch of garter snakes, and then carries it across a river.

*Contain anti-union violence, theocracy, oligarchy, cronyism, the investment portfolios of the Dulles brothers, diet colonialism, and 17 times the RDA for venality and cynicism.

Side effects include nun rapes, helicopter dropsy, galvanized genitals, Intermittent Stuffed in Trunk of a Ford Falcon Disorder (ISTFFD), coincidental racism, delusions of utilitarianism, and Sudden Bullet Symdrome.