AS LONG AS SOMEONE HAS MENTIONED (IN
CALIFORNIA) “LEARN TO SMOKE A
LITTLE DOPE”, … (look at these characters).
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With the winding down of the wars as
formerly prosecuted in the Middle East (principally in Afghanistan
and Iraq), presumably as well the so – called “war on drugs” is
being relaxed for the time being and thus a principal conflict as
carried on by the U.S. Military and somewhat by coalition partners
for more than thirteen years so far, and to every pessimist and
naysayer, seems to have been without the kind of social and economic
utility that one expects from traditional “boots on the ground” -
type warfare since even the time of Clausewicz. It is important to
note the current military and paramilitary conflicts in Northern Iraq
and Syria, again involving tribal warfare and that of warlords,
probably will not taper off for a while, whether or not the US
continues or avows the causes of people like the Kurds and so forth.
Since some time ago, and even before the Iran / Iraq war of some time
ago, the Kurds were fighting the occupiers of their territories,
presumably Kurdistan, and those occupiers were the same groups now
involved in the strife in that area again. The Kurds are a minority
in a Northern Middle East territory that were a bother and therefore
marked for extinction by neighbors, of which the Iraqi Hussein regime
during the late 1970's and early to mid – 1980's. No one wants to
remember the essentially peaceful Kurds having to take up arms to
defend their homes against invaders and / or flee their homeland by
way of any means possible, including by the airlines to parts unknown
where they assimilated and disappeared into crowded populaces, as did
the culture of Kurdistan they carried with them, and most of home was
forgotten by those refugees who actually managed to escape the forces
invading at home. The attitude of the invaders and the Syrians,
etc., opposing the Kurds and rebels in those areas to – day is they
are good for nothing and need make way for the “postmodern” and
hegelian (even those who read Engels) everyman from the delineated
areas and their corresponding military forces, many of whom worship
the former soviet military model and some of its views and practices
still pervasive in Russian Federation society at this time still.
This includes perhaps an unofficial phalanx of ruling society
featuring “urbane” types, a political party structure that
imitates immovable royalty and some other things Lenin and Leon
Trotsky would be proud of today.
October is a terrific month for
conflict, of which the resolution of the sudden chaos and abandon of
the Russian Revolution (1917), and that of the very long Chinese
Communist Revolution that ended in 1949. It is also the month of the
famous Yom Kippur War, the Battle of Trafalgar, the beginning of
the
Long March of the Chinese Revolution, that of the Battle of
Passchendaele, the First Battle of Ypres, and ironically that of the
Treaty of Westphalia that ended the Thirty Years War in 1648. The
list goes on of notable things without there being a laundry list of
disaster after disaster. That the Middle East wars are winding down,
as are the legacy of 2000 – 2008 statecraft and the democratic Cold
War legacy as former communist states withdraw into themselves as led
into it by the Russian leadership, and the tampering as well with the
war on drugs are anything but peaceful portents: People just
continue to get more and more wound at the prospect of facing
opposing leadership as they get older given the Cold War and other
conflicts showed the deficiencies of the forgetfulness and continuous
renewal of things as represented by the international left, including
an elitist permissiveness for things like trafficking of various
sorts. That the left today even in the US is preoccupied with curing
social ills and socioeconomic inequities, it is perhaps a paradox the
left started these sorts of things in their modern form and in
concentrating on these issues with public and solicitous private
campaigns, it glorifies and highlights these sorts of things that are
at best perfidious, lousy intrigue and extremely hazardous, and destructive at their
most benign. Comments invited.
the
Long March of the Chinese Revolution, that of the Battle of
Passchendaele, the First Battle of Ypres, and ironically that of the
Treaty of Westphalia that ended the Thirty Years War in 1648. The
list goes on of notable things without there being a laundry list of
disaster after disaster. That the Middle East wars are winding down,
as are the legacy of 2000 – 2008 statecraft and the democratic Cold
War legacy as former communist states withdraw into themselves as led
into it by the Russian leadership, and the tampering as well with the
war on drugs are anything but peaceful portents: People just
continue to get more and more wound at the prospect of facing
opposing leadership as they get older given the Cold War and other
conflicts showed the deficiencies of the forgetfulness and continuous
renewal of things as represented by the international left, including
an elitist permissiveness for things like trafficking of various
sorts. That the left today even in the US is preoccupied with curing
social ills and socioeconomic inequities, it is perhaps a paradox the
left started these sorts of things in their modern form and in
concentrating on these issues with public and solicitous private
campaigns, it glorifies and highlights these sorts of things that are
at best perfidious, lousy intrigue and extremely hazardous, and destructive at their
most benign. Comments invited.
