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2005-06-25 Fifth Column

Neo-Conservative World Supremacists? Bwahahahaha!!

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Posted by badanov 2005-06-25 09:23|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Do people have to go to school to learn how to be this stupid? Or do they come by it naturally?

Posted by Dave D. 2005-06-25 11:07|| 2005-06-25 11:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Darn! For a while there I was enjoying the part where we were acknowledged as the sole world power with hegemonic interests through adaptive franchises based on democracy and capitalism. Seems like a good plan for everyone concerned! Then he goes and gets doctrinare and silly......

Posted by Just About Enough! 2005-06-25 11:37|| 2005-06-25 11:37|| Front Page Top

#3 This is Eric Hobsbawm, who is one of Britain's most respected historians for reasons I am unable to fathom. Recovering[?] lefty Brit Harry discusses the article, and concludes that Hobsbawm hasn't really studied neo-conservative thought, or else he wouldn't have gotten it all wrong.

This is far too charitable. I don't think Hobsbawm has the slightest interest in or intention of understanding Bush et al. He's simply reflexively opposed to American interests everywhere. As Harry points out, Hobsbawm seems to long for the good old days of the Cold War, when everyone knew their place in the great scheme of things, and (not incidentally) the Soviet Union was still a going concern and the Hobsbawms of the world had not sunken into utter irrelevance.

Eric Hobsbawm, proud member of Revolutionaries for the Status Quo since (at least) 2003.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-06-25 13:27|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-06-25 13:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Do they have any openings?

Posted by Captain America 2005-06-25 13:50|| 2005-06-25 13:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Previously by the same author.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1396157,00.html

Posted by Angerese Whaiter9260 2005-06-25 15:28|| 2005-06-25 15:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Good stuff Angie.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-25 15:31|| 2005-06-25 15:31|| Front Page Top

#7 A tiresome authoritarian lecture, assuming the truth of all previous totalitarian propaganda from the time of Goebbels and Stalin to Chomsky, Zinn, and Durbin.
Goebbels, you ask?
Why yes, just substitute "Jewish" for "American" and you have a perfect summary of the evil doctor's worldview.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-25 21:24|| 2005-06-25 21:24|| Front Page Top

#8 You can hear the rhythm, if not the melody, of such expressions as "world-destroying Jewish plutocrats"

Compare these statements:
"It is precisely because there exists no race which can be the master of the rest of mankind, that we Germans have taken the liberty to break the domination of Jewry and of its capital in Germany, of Jewry which believed itself to have inherited the Crown of secret world domination."
Goebbels 18 March 1941

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-25 22:00|| 2005-06-25 22:00|| Front Page Top

#9 through adaptive franchises

Is he talking about the US or AmWay?

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