re UPCOMING POST UNLIKELY SOURCE

I ran across a nice little volume recently. Field Marshall Montgomery.

He had some very useful remarks, from lectures delivered in 1959 I believe.

RE POST WWII SITUATION US ROLE

It would be hard to exaggerate our role in the disasters now unfolding.

The old Western imperial order, especially the British empire, was the best thing, for both the West and the Rest, but mainly for the West, about which I am primarily concerned, going forward.

Delusional utopian American market capitalist, anti communist, so called pacifist, ideologues, will doubtless equivocate.

That is quite to be expected.

JUST NOTING A RECENT BOOK REVIEW RE GLOBALIZATION AND WAR

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1239841.ece

SEE DK'S CURRENT POST COMMENT

Re Europe and the US, the erroneous place for the original comment,

why not, nevertheless, quote a few words roughly pertinent to the discussion there:

Sir Michael Howard, Lessons Of History, "1945--End of an Era?":

"Only one thing could have prolonged the existence of the  European  Empires---the continuing approval and support of the United States. It was the denial of that support that spelled the end of the old European Empires. The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt.  And it has been with genuine bewilderment that they find themselves today so generally reviled as its inheritor....."

"...The United States and the Soviet Union are both inheritors of the universalist ideas of the Enlightenment against which European, and especially German nationalism was very largely a reaction."

Here, I think he misses the mark, in that nationalist, no less that multi-ethnic universalist, states, grew out of principally enlightenment ideas.

Recent remarks by the President about American exceptionalism highlight, it seems to me, the kindred Enlightenment origins of nationalist, and multi-ethnic universalist, states, under the skin.

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WHY THESE SUDDEN UNACCUSTOMED JAPANESE COMMERCIAL ALLIANCES

Any port, other than China, so to speak, in a storm.

LIXIL BUYS GROHE JAPAN PENETRATING GERMAN GLOBAL NETWORK

Reducing political leverage, so to speak.

RE APPLIED MATERIALS BUYS TOKYO ELECTRON LTD

Hailed by the West as a signal market opening gesture.......

Westerners have been taken, in the East, for 6 decades now.

Will they ever learn?

There is, no doubt, a military strategic agenda, not merely a market one.

SEE RANDALL COLLINS' CURRENT POST

' ...Why revolutions succeed or fail. '

RE LINCOLN AND ROOSEVELT

Neither was really a great leader, for obvious reasons.

We really needed someone more like Roosevelt, back at Civil War outset time.

Conversely, we needed someone more like Lincoln during WW II.

GLOBALIST SMART SHOPPERS

Won't want to go to the Mall in places like Nairobi.

E order may be the way to go.

RE THE DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL

http://iws.collin.edu/kwilkison/Online1302home/20th%20Century/DepressionNewDeal.html

RE PAT CHOATE DANGEROUS BUSINESS

Needless to say, his ' solutions ' are not mine.

My view is that there are no solutions based on orderly internal politics as usual here.

Unfortunately,
events based largely on external, foreign and foreign influenced, political, economic, and military, forces,

long emanating from other, more determined, countries, and on their now overwhelming influence within ours,

will, ultimately, largely determine how things shake out, structurally and politically, here at home.

BART CHILTON

'Cheetahs are a problem issue much larger than ever imagined.'

DUSTY WANTS GOLD GOT TH DROPON TH TOOF FAIRE

Dusty: "Gimme all yur teef an yur dimes, n nobudi gits hirt."

Tooth Fairy: "Here da dimes. Dusty, kids don hav gole in dar teef."

Dusty: "Lemme be da juj o dat. Dats yur tut fairy rites.
Jes handovr da teef, an yu cun go un yr merie toof faire wai."

See prior post: Dusty Wants Chemical Weapons

RE WHO SPEAKS FOR THE WORLD

See DK's current post, and comments.

DUSTY WANTS CHEMICAL WEAPONS

Dusty: "Gimme all yur chemical weapons, an nobudy gits hirt."
Assad: "No chemical weapons here."
Dusty: "Giv em up, an I'll print some dollars for ya.
And I won't bomb ya, yet. ' Yet ', that's yur humn rites."

Assad: "No dice, on th dollars. Everbudy knows wat kaka dat is. Butt, spekin o Humean rites, Keepum. Jes Gimme Samantha Power, no fake dollars, no ' yet ', or no deal."

Dusty: "No dice. Im keepin her, fur a rainy day. Ill jes bom ya. Tanks."

MANOUEVERING FOR OPEN WW IV NOW LONG UNDER WAY

Early stages of this conflict began several years ago.

CHINA CUTS DEAL TO BUY KAZAK OIL IN RUSSIA'S SOFT UNDERBELLY AND INDIA'S BACK YARD

Meanwhile, we can ' police ' the Middle East for them.

SEE DK'S CURRENT POST WHO WILL SPEAK FOR THE WORLD

He cites Reagan's regime.

"When the Cold War came to an end, we had a President who had fought in the Second World War, and he tried to use the end of the Cold War to create exactly the kind of world he had fought to create."

Here is another voice, speaking for the world really, from farther back, re the outcome of WWII, in retrospect:

"By May 1945  we had won the German war militarily, but had lost it politically vis-à-vis Russia." Montgomery, An Approach To Sanity, "NATO--- Past Present and Future", 1959, p. 12.

Largely because of American ideological opposition, we failed to drive the Russians back to their own borders, something which, even in this 1959 volume, Montgomery expressly wished might some day happen...

Reagan was not in the same league with these people.
Eisenhower had no battlefield experience, ever. Think about it.

If there was a so called ' betrayal ' in the Second WW,

(a la Hitler's erroneous allegations against the financiers and politicians, unfounded in the case of Germany, re the First World War),

and vaguely alluded to by Montgomery, back then, regarding a war politically rather than militarily lost, it was the betrayal, by the United States, of views like those of Patton, and perhaps, even, of his demise.

RE PAT CHOATE DANGEROUS BUSINESS

Great book, for dreamers in both parties, and deluded independents including Choate and others on either side, about what sort of system, now of very longstanding, they are helpless parts of.

RE PAT CHOATE DUSTY

I started to read one of his 2000s books. Dangerous bla bla. 

He thinks globalization began in about 1990.

He is a politician. VP candidate. Very well intentioned.....

He thinks globalization needs to keep on going....

Nuf said.

You could plug in Pat Buchanan, another ' Pat ', so to speak.

Dusty: "Gimme all yur free trade."

Pat Buchanan, Pat Choate, in unison, a capella: "Yes boss."

BAILYN AND THE MEDIEVAL MODEL IN AMERICA

The American political system was based on a medieval model, really.

As explained in Ideological Origins, pb p. 164, the central disagreement over representation hinged on the colonies looking back, to a medieval model for democracy, such as it had then been, rather than forward, to where Britain then stood.

However, among individual colonies, and their elites, both mercantile and slave holding planters, mostly radical Whigs, there were quite un medieval underlying reasons for advocating such a medieval model for representation, as against the English one.

BLAST FROM THE PAST CHURCHILL INDIA USA ZAKARIA

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/07/re-churchill-and-india-and-zakaria.html

RE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AND BY WHOM TRADE AND TAXES

See this account and also this chart:

http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2010/9/29/one-chart-refutes-three-myths-about-us-foreign-trade.html