tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post3447844335424394501..comments2024-03-29T12:05:09.910+07:00Comments on <b>Postcards from the End of [the] America[n Empire]</b>: Turkey’s Weasel ProblemLinh Dinhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-24300778479283048842016-06-19T22:42:49.772+07:002016-06-19T22:42:49.772+07:00"He has become a megalomaniac with hopes of r..."He has become a megalomaniac with hopes of resurrecting the Ottoman Empire (in that way, his attempts are not unrelated to ISIS’ idea of the caliphate). Erdogan’s insanity is also similar to Trump’s—a dream of grandiose power. Let them both rot in hell.”<br /><br />I have to guess your friend from Turkey gets his information from the likes of WaPo, NYT, HuffPo, or how would I fathom out his misinformation?<br /><br />It's a kind of truism: Trump started to be attacked by the full spectrum of USA covert (thus real) powers exactly because he had dared hint at policies and pursuits diverse from theirs, non-imperialistic in the first place.<br /><br />"Dreams of grandiose power" are the actual worship of the well-organized system which sees in Trump his first adversady and potential problem.<br /><br />I know that this picture is entirely clear to you from reading other posts. But you should suggest your Turkish friend to either reading the Financial/New York Times paying much more attention, or stop reading it...<br /><br />It's as simple as this: http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160502/1038945054/us-trump-neocons-power.html<br />заход солнцаnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-52435549378179959272016-01-04T15:28:22.802+07:002016-01-04T15:28:22.802+07:00I have read weird-ass political theories before, a...I have read weird-ass political theories before, and concocted no few myself, but Paul Bowles's tying alcohol-consumption to Westernization really takes the cake, or kif, I should say. Also, unraveling Davutoglu's quote was no mean feat--especially with his throw-in of Benghazi and that to my ears screams Hillary. But once I got there I understood it to be a reference to neo-Ottomanism, though "tying" Damascus to Sarajevo seems more than a little inauspicious to me. Does Ahmet not remember the events of 1914?<br /><br />On second thought, maybe Paul Bowles had a point after all. I was struck watching the Address Hotel fire just how cold sober the Dubai merrymakers looked. Not a loon in the crowd. Care to pass that hash pipe?swindledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00035913786847702889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-76043387118660435102015-12-28T04:27:43.543+07:002015-12-28T04:27:43.543+07:00Linh:
Given the convulsive engineered events wh...Linh: <br /><br />Given the convulsive engineered events which happened in the Middle East since 1947, I have been pondering how the Empire managed to keep Turkey in its dirty claw for such a long time. It seems their top criminal & avaricious element fit in perfectly well with ours and Israel's? <br /><br />CIA agents must delight when deeply flawed & ambitious Mubarak, Saddam, and Endrogen characters are found for hot-spot misrule purposes. Also, all front runners for POTUS (2016) must run away from your truthful observation about Endrogen's sharing a "weasel" commonality with US Presidents, and how they simultaneously support terrorism and then pretend to battle terrorism. <br /><br />Were truth amenities activated & installed into the American conversation, US prisons would be stocked with Executive, Cabinet-level, and Legislative inmates. How bullshit has wings and flies in the US must get quite a howl from those attendees at Davos conclaves. <br /><br />On timeless "divide and conquer" realpolitik policies, the best (most disgusting) recent example that comes to my mind is when the Reagan administration simultaneously supported each side during the 10-decade slaughter involving Saddam's (Sunni) Iraq and Khomeini's Shiites. <br /><br />Finally, thank you for another serious and meaningful article on a country where I have little insight. Also, thanks for making "link" to Dan Sanchez's excellent article which I unfortunately missed, and your having tried to give the refugees some spare money to help get them through a nightmare Empire day. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07804858204655663574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-20716207302145978442015-12-27T20:06:09.391+07:002015-12-27T20:06:09.391+07:00Hi Rudy,
Check out this must-read, "War Is R...Hi Rudy,<br /><br />Check out this must-read, <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/dan_sanchez/2015/12/21/war-is-realizing-the-israelizing-of-the-world/" rel="nofollow">"War Is Realizing the Israelizing of the World"</a> by Dan Sanchez.<br /><br />LinhLinh Dinhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-8696286005336379632015-12-27T19:22:34.106+07:002015-12-27T19:22:34.106+07:00I just got a very nice email from an American resi...I just got a very nice email from an American resident of Istanbul:<br /><br />"Thanks for your brave article on the situation here in Istanbul. It is frustrating to feel constrained to silence by the current political climate in Turkey. There is a very real undercurrent of fear in the reticence of the people here to comment on their government.<br /><br />You have given voice to the concerns of the great majority of secular Turks and refugees here. And you are completely correct in assigning weasel status to the the world leaders at large."Linh Dinhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-5966446590943400562015-12-27T18:00:26.127+07:002015-12-27T18:00:26.127+07:00Thanks much for your continuing straight up views ...Thanks much for your continuing straight up views on wherever you happen to be and for pointing out Orlov's article on the Ukraine. Rudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449122628917135438noreply@blogger.com