Sean, I better keep out of the Israel gate keeper issue, the issue
tears me apart. I am not sure what I would find more frightening:
nuclear weapons over Iran or a conspiracy in plain site, that has a
high percentage of American Jewish protagonists. Maybe you, Wolcott
and I would agree that it somehow would be pleasant to be able to
join the happiness brigade. Vaguely reminds me of a passage in Hesse:
longing Steppenwolf.
But look here we have another "Zeitgenosse" [coeval] that ponders
about the military:
http://journal.davidbyrne.com/
4.15.06: Military revolt, back pages
The Armed forces' revolt against the Bush administration proceeds. A
whole raft of generals, most of them recently retired, but having
served in Iraq, now call for Rummy to step down. Other generals, not
named and still serving in Iraq, join the chorus. The military doesn't
dispute the war — that may come later — but its execution, which
anyone with eyes can see was not planned, thought out or performed
with any competence whatsoever. The Army's first duty is
self-preservation — save the boys — and when they see arrogant
incompetents putting the boys in harm's way unnecessarily, they
eventually rebel.
It was Army defections that dethroned Marcos in the Philippines.
I'm not a big supporter of the military or the military mindset, but
they can at least be viewed as attempting to be professional about
their job. And respected from that point of view. You may not want
Dirty Harry to make a nation's foreign policy decisions, but he or
some other thin-lipped hero is who you want at your back when things
get crazy. Not Rumsfeld, or Bush — the latter hasn't succeeded in a
single business he's been handed on a platter his whole life.
>
> [From the smartest pundit currently on planet Earth (a position once
> held by Christopher Hitchens, before he lost his mind). Visit the
> site to read the last paragraphs on Carl Bernstein's comparison of the
> Nixon and Bush 43 regimes.]
>
> Gretchen, David, and Carl
>
> Two adds to the blogroll. My friend Gretchen Rubin, the author of 40
> Ways to Look at JFK, 40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill, and other
> books well-worth your look-see, wants to be happy. Who doesn't? But
> unlike the rest of us sad sacks, she's actually trying to do something
> about it, taking active measures to nuture and unfold the sunflower
> within. She tracks her pilgrim's progress over at the Happiness
> Project. Her first commandment is: "Be Gretchen." My first commandment
> is: "Be me." But since I'm such a mystery to myself, I'm uncertain who
> "me" is, an existential confusion that led to numerous bouts of
> amnesia, usually when a piece is due. Also, David Byrne's journal. I
> don't have to tell you who David Byrne is, and if I do, tough. Look
> him up. Learn something. Don't be one of those dum...
>
> Source: http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2006/04/gretchen_david.php
>
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