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July 7, 2006
WB: Warhogs

Billmon:

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. War with Iran is not inevitable. (Frum: Hah. We’ll see about that.) But if war does come, don’t expect to the price of a gallon of gas (or a loaf of bread) come down any time soon. After all, we heard similiar promises voiced (albeit usually sub rosa) by similar sources before Shrub’s first preventative war. Look how well that worked out.

Warhogs

Posted by b on July 7, 2006 at 06:10 UTC | Permalink
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b.(gem) your link is off, it goes to the chameleon post.
i’m in my speechless mode or i’d comment. sometimes wallflower suits me.
go billmon go.

Posted by: annie | Jul 7 2006 7:57 utc | 1

To bad an old sage like Dwight Macdonald is’nt still around, because he could nail someone like Frum for what he is — a corporate squawk machine carpetbagger shilling for the sentiments of low-brow inferiority riddled plow-boy NASCAR wannabe’s. Axis of Evil. This guy is the political equivelent to Popeil’s solution to male pattern baldness — black spray paint.

Posted by: anna missed | Jul 7 2006 9:57 utc | 2

This is all Game Theory 101, and my guess is that the neocons understand the dynamic perfectly well — and in fact are now counting on it.
Goddamn it billmon, it’s not Game Theory, but, Chaos Theory, and it’s not just the neocons, but the whole of the political Class. The elites. Helped by the institution’s friends-in-high-places of the marketplace. By proxy of a great methodical ideological war. This whole cinema of horror and transgression is about squeezing the last drop of capital blood out of this nation and it’s people; as it has all other countries. The New American plantation. The Complex Dynamical Systems of poor and wealthy. You sd it yourself it’s the Leviathan. The endgame is quite clear. Quit with the “self-perpetuating” narcolepsy!

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jul 7 2006 10:41 utc | 3

Addendum:
How long would it take you, given the keys and the whip, to want to control whomever you could, however you wanted with no thoughts of retribution? Look at our current political class, they have known what they wanted to do since the early 50’s, 60’s or 70’s. I wouldnt want to, I suspect many on this board wouldn’t want to, futher, controlling others absolutely brings with it a moral dilemma not suited to my belief system… and again, I suspect most MOA’s.
They want rich and poor, black and white, power and control, gog and magog, –they have all the money and amenities and illth they need– they want Master and slave. A Sadeian Nation.
Further, Thomas Moore wrote in Dark Eros: The Imagination of Sadism , that in any culture that does not have a balast or bastion nor acknowledges it’s skeletons, –it’s sins, if you will– will have that imagination played out in real life.

The ways of Sade are not limited to bedroom and scenes of bondage or porno theaters or forbidden books. Any aspect of culture, from the great to the small, insofar as it is engaged in issues of power has therefore Sadean qualities. Furthermore, since life is never perfect, every aspect of culture will know the split of power into torture and suffering, dominance and submission, or sentimentality and cruelty.

I dare say we now know it.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jul 7 2006 11:18 utc | 4

@Billmon:
You’re on a roll:
Next we suggest you:
BLOG THIS

Posted by: The Editorial Board | Jul 7 2006 12:20 utc | 5

No. 5, don’t overdo it

Posted by: Cloned Poster | Jul 7 2006 13:43 utc | 6

As a Canuckistani, I apologize profusely for Mr. Frum and all the havoc he has helped the Cons wreak on the world.
But you have to give us some tiny credit.
After all, we did take Conrad Black back.

Posted by: RossK | Jul 7 2006 15:04 utc | 7

Uncle Scam wrote: squeezing the last drop of capital blood out of this nation and it’s people … They want rich and poor, black and white, power and control, gog and magog…
Middle-class neighborhoods disappearing, study finds
Middle-class neighborhoods, long regarded as incubators for the American dream, are losing ground in cities across the country, shrinking at more than twice the rate of the middle class itself.
Duluth News

Posted by: Anonymous | Jul 7 2006 18:43 utc | 8

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Posted by: Noirette | Jul 7 2006 18:44 utc | 9

the destruction of the middle class means that the buffer between the elites & the poor is disintegrating, which should create a better environment for meaningful change & resistance. right? sounds like a good topic for a thread.

Posted by: b real | Jul 7 2006 18:52 utc | 10

second houses
are replacing
only homes

Posted by: citizen | Jul 7 2006 18:53 utc | 11

Regarding inflation being fuelled by oil prices:
Oil prices ARE fuelled by short-term war [/weather] disruptions in supply; but also by long-term demand escalation occurring across the globe.
However, to make matters even worse than you realize, world peak oil production was reached in May 2006 and we are approaching the slide down the bell curve. At that point, he price of oil is going to skyrocket *permanently* and inflation too, war or not.

Posted by: gylangirl | Jul 12 2006 3:57 utc | 12

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