Nothing Personal, It's Just Business
The following is a correspondence between myself and an old friend of mine who I shall refer to as B. for the purpose of anonymity. For the past few years B. and I have had some very interesting email discussions that I've always believed worthy of being displayed in a public forum. His comments appear first and my response appears below it.
Hello M.,
If you care to rake some muck and get yourself on a government watch list, (not that you aren't already for being associated with me) then I have a story for you I've been watching out of the corner of my eye.
As you know our dear, dear president Dumbya is dedicated to ending Tyranny in the world and spreading freedom. As you also know, it never occured to anyone to question our fraudulent election because no one would walk across the house to take a leak if it were a favor to John Kerry, even if they just drank a forty-dog. Instead, we left it to the Ukrainians and their "Orange Revolution" to set a better example for the world by really standing up for democracy and standing in the cold for weeks in support of the dioxin poisoned Victor Yushenko, who later won his run-off election and is now president. You also know that Dumbya's idea of spreading freedom is to use the CIA to foment revolution as it has been doing so well for half-a-century. It is also abundantly obvious that public opinion is being prepared for a war with Iran and Syria. Now if your world was a checker board, and you started in Turkey, you could jump over Syria, land in Iraq, jump Iran and land in Afghanistan and you've just picked up two checkers.
Now if you look back to 1953 it is well known and public domain, declassified info that the CIA went into Iran in 1953 and installed the Shah. We know how that turned out.
Fast forward to Lebanon, a tiny little country wedged between Israel, Syria and the Mediterranean. Twenty years ago, Jabba the Sharon was an Israeli General who massacred Lebanese and turned Beirut from a spa into a hell-hole over night. Last week, somebody whacked the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, and now, suddenly a revolution is being fomented. Syria has government agents embedded in Lebanon, and protects them from Israel. Syria is a closed society who in 2000 elected Bashar Al-Assad, a (then) 34 year old Ophthalmologist as president, simply because his Dad was Hafez, who reigned as "president" of Syria for 31 years, and was a member of the old guard that King Hussein of Jordan was a member of, when the whole of the Middle East was at war with Israel. The Arabs do dig that whole bloodline thing. Anyway, it seems abundantly clear to me, that they are starting something with Syria by destabilizing Lebanon. And lets not forget Egypt. Watch pseudo-dictator and consumer of American arms, Hosni Mubarak homina-homina his way around this situation. That's the wild card.
B.
Hey B.,
In regards to the middle East checker game, you already nailed the issue by addressing the fact that fomenting revolution on foreign soil is standard operating procedure. Teddy Roosevelt did it to get the Panama Canal built, Eisenhower did it to maintain United Fruit's profit margin and so on and so forth. As a nation we've become so desensitized to such acts of political subterfuge that we're able to comfortably sit back in our easy chairs and watch how it all went down on a History Channel retrospective, over a plate of nachos and a cold frosty one, without even batting an eyelash. What we're discussing here doesn't merit ending up on any government watch list, why waist the disk space? This is not an earth-shattering revelation that will spur the disenchanted masses to revolt against The Man. Everyone's too busy buying crap on Ebay, watching Oprah, pondering over JLo's lovelife or dropping loose change into the supermarket tsunami jar because the pubescent checkout girl's dirty look guilted them into it. Destabilize governments?...What, huh?...Not now, eating!
Agreed, there is an uncomfortable amount of cock-waving being performed in regards to military involvement in Iran and Syria. The idea is being proposed in small doses to the public and being swallowed by more than a few I would imagine. Logic would dictate that public opinion would sway towards an anti-war stance, especially as the body count of the present, seemingly endless war in Iraq increases. However, this is the same public that voted Bush into office for a second term (or a first, if you want to get technical. The 2000 election was a slight of hand trick worthy of Penn and Teller), so I'm at a loss as to what to predict. What I do know is that there is much cause for concern. I'm no biblical scholar but aren't Syria, Iran and Iraq located on the spot where Armageddon is supposed to happen?
M.R.
Hello M.,
If you care to rake some muck and get yourself on a government watch list, (not that you aren't already for being associated with me) then I have a story for you I've been watching out of the corner of my eye.
As you know our dear, dear president Dumbya is dedicated to ending Tyranny in the world and spreading freedom. As you also know, it never occured to anyone to question our fraudulent election because no one would walk across the house to take a leak if it were a favor to John Kerry, even if they just drank a forty-dog. Instead, we left it to the Ukrainians and their "Orange Revolution" to set a better example for the world by really standing up for democracy and standing in the cold for weeks in support of the dioxin poisoned Victor Yushenko, who later won his run-off election and is now president. You also know that Dumbya's idea of spreading freedom is to use the CIA to foment revolution as it has been doing so well for half-a-century. It is also abundantly obvious that public opinion is being prepared for a war with Iran and Syria. Now if your world was a checker board, and you started in Turkey, you could jump over Syria, land in Iraq, jump Iran and land in Afghanistan and you've just picked up two checkers.
Now if you look back to 1953 it is well known and public domain, declassified info that the CIA went into Iran in 1953 and installed the Shah. We know how that turned out.
Fast forward to Lebanon, a tiny little country wedged between Israel, Syria and the Mediterranean. Twenty years ago, Jabba the Sharon was an Israeli General who massacred Lebanese and turned Beirut from a spa into a hell-hole over night. Last week, somebody whacked the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, and now, suddenly a revolution is being fomented. Syria has government agents embedded in Lebanon, and protects them from Israel. Syria is a closed society who in 2000 elected Bashar Al-Assad, a (then) 34 year old Ophthalmologist as president, simply because his Dad was Hafez, who reigned as "president" of Syria for 31 years, and was a member of the old guard that King Hussein of Jordan was a member of, when the whole of the Middle East was at war with Israel. The Arabs do dig that whole bloodline thing. Anyway, it seems abundantly clear to me, that they are starting something with Syria by destabilizing Lebanon. And lets not forget Egypt. Watch pseudo-dictator and consumer of American arms, Hosni Mubarak homina-homina his way around this situation. That's the wild card.
B.
Hey B.,
In regards to the middle East checker game, you already nailed the issue by addressing the fact that fomenting revolution on foreign soil is standard operating procedure. Teddy Roosevelt did it to get the Panama Canal built, Eisenhower did it to maintain United Fruit's profit margin and so on and so forth. As a nation we've become so desensitized to such acts of political subterfuge that we're able to comfortably sit back in our easy chairs and watch how it all went down on a History Channel retrospective, over a plate of nachos and a cold frosty one, without even batting an eyelash. What we're discussing here doesn't merit ending up on any government watch list, why waist the disk space? This is not an earth-shattering revelation that will spur the disenchanted masses to revolt against The Man. Everyone's too busy buying crap on Ebay, watching Oprah, pondering over JLo's lovelife or dropping loose change into the supermarket tsunami jar because the pubescent checkout girl's dirty look guilted them into it. Destabilize governments?...What, huh?...Not now, eating!
Agreed, there is an uncomfortable amount of cock-waving being performed in regards to military involvement in Iran and Syria. The idea is being proposed in small doses to the public and being swallowed by more than a few I would imagine. Logic would dictate that public opinion would sway towards an anti-war stance, especially as the body count of the present, seemingly endless war in Iraq increases. However, this is the same public that voted Bush into office for a second term (or a first, if you want to get technical. The 2000 election was a slight of hand trick worthy of Penn and Teller), so I'm at a loss as to what to predict. What I do know is that there is much cause for concern. I'm no biblical scholar but aren't Syria, Iran and Iraq located on the spot where Armageddon is supposed to happen?
M.R.
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