RE RUSSIA SYRIA THE WEST AND THE REST THE SO CALLED LONG WAR

We blundered in 1917 1918 by not partitioning Russia at the time of the Revolution, rather than entering the war on their side. See Lansing's rationale, Wilson's, and ours, for entering the war, in 1917.

We blundered again in not pushing them back from Eastern Europe in 1944 1945, what I have called The Patton Solution, and thus in allowing them to develop and deploy nuclear weapons in 1948 1949. 

We blundered again, in booming other hostile undeveloped and harmless civilizations to offset their influence during and even after the Cold War.

Regarding Russia we are toast.

Bobbitt and others have called it The Long War. 

I call it a long series of blunders, and, in a sense a long surrender of Western Civilization.

ONE COULD ALSO CALL IT FALLOUT FROM THE REFORMATION

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2015/10/re-perennial-political-fragmentation-dk.html

RE PARLIAMENTARY NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

"There is an obvious, though unlikely, solution to the situation in the House: the election of a new Speaker by a coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats, together with an agreement to keep funding the government at current levels, forget about Obamacare and immigration, and leave Planned Parenthood on its own.  That would be the equivalent of a Parliamentary National Government, such as Britain formed in each of the two world wars.  It would definitely isolate the anti-government revolutionaries, and it would also force some Republican presidential candidates, in all probability, to support the deal.  I do not expect it, but I I thought I would put it forward to introduce a ray of hope into perhaps the most hopeless American political moment that I have ever lived through in 68 years." DK

Wonderful forlorn suggestion.....

It seems to me that this horse left the proverbial barn, here, both ideologically and structurally, after 1776.

THE TRI JANUS FACE OF LEFT AND RIGHT AND LIBERAL DK'S CURRENT POST AND MY REMARK

"They evidently feel no obligation to make our institutions work because they do not believe in them.  Sometimes it seems that shutting down the government isn't their nightmare, but their fondest dream...." DK

The vestige, what is left of the impoverished left here,  never believed in the US, but was a utopian globalist movement beginning to end.

The liberal, and conservative, international globalist economic and political, order came to look very suspiciously at the nation state itself, as well as, ultimately, Western civilization itself, sadly enough, much less an Anglo American Western civilizational remnant offshoot.

This has been the tragic legacy of the Cecil Rhodes project, as it morphed down through the 20th Century and beyond.

It did not start out that quite way, but that is how it has ended.

Rhodes thought there was only one civilization, the English one, really. He wanted to lift all peoples into an advanced state, under enlightened English tutelage. 

Blunder.

THE ROOSKIES ARE BACK!

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RE PERENNIAL POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION DK CURRENT POST

"This morning on NPR I heard an unlikely source point to another problem: the failure of authority at all levels of our political system.  For 40 years, a commentator (whom I did not initially identify) said, we have had political reforms decentralizing our government, legislative bodies, and political parties, and making it harder and harder for anyone to exercise effective leadership.  The Speaker of the House no longer enjoys power over committee assignments and campaign funds, and thus has no way to bring his troops into line.  The commentator,. who stated this very telling point without a hint of partisanship, turned out to be David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.  Rather than dismiss the remark based upon its source, I take all the greater pleasure in commending Mr. Frum for his insight because he happens to be on the other side of the aisle." DK

This trend is neither new, or uncharacteristic, in this country, unfortunately.

Weak central government, and strong localism were built into the constitution, unfortunately.

Portugal has gone wild for this site

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RE IMPROVISATION

Reading A Taste for Chaos.

It just SPONTANEOUSLY fell on my desk one day!

BOBBITT HOWARD

http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3387

Just a little bit of Bobbitt dreamland here, from 2003.

I still have to watch Howard's rejoinder, but it is really intramural, in a sense .

CLASSIC

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/hobsons-choice-privatizations-versus.html

RE LEONARDO SELFIE RANDALL COLLINS' POST

I still like to believe this is a self portrait.

RE MUDSLINGING

"Mccarthyism, mudslinging is typical tactic of right, as right has more emphasis on self interest, the left is more altruistic in basic principle." Ed Boyle

Interesting that he refers to mudslinging. Muckraking seems to have been reserved as a term for Democratic publicists, apparently, but not exclusively. Anderson, Pearson, etc.

Similar principles however apply. McCarthy was a politician who was really a glorified muckraker, so to speak, though not a quote publicist except through others, and his committee. He had quite a bully pulpit.

Take a look at Wikipedia, muckraker.

See, here, Drew Pearson fallacy, Lorch, etc.

RE TOYS R US NYT TODAY

Never, in the history of human conflict.....

RE PARTY PARTY

Republican: "Climate change is a fantasy."

Democrat: "Cap and Trade is the answer, whether yes or no."

RE COURT CONUNDRUM NYT

Many dreamy Americans do not know it, but this has been the rule, rather than an exception, in the criminal justice systems in virtually all states. There are fifty of them. Think about it.

DIALOGUE NYT

President: "Theft of commercial property is off limits."

Chief thief: "I agree."

Terms search: Never, in the history of human conflict........

Steingart has a passage p 163 echoing my remark, "Never in the history of human conflict...."

"BUSINESS EXECUTIVES ARE LOATH TO DISCUSS..."

"Never before in history has there been such a massive transfer of knowledge--without war or conquest-- from one social group to another"

RE FOIBLES OF THE IT WORLD

"How do you know they're hacking us?"

"Because we're hacking them."

RE THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT

One has to study a work like this to really begin to see why and how WWI, and then WWII, rolled out in the manner in which they did.

Americans have long been taught, more or less, that they were really mainly German wars of aggression; that both wars were more or less caused by Germany, and that the other powers were more or less innocent victims of these aggressions. 

Michael Howard even took this position in "Prussia In European History," "1945-End Of An Era?", and elsewhere, although some of his writings, throughout, appear at times to grudgingly acknowledge a more complicated picture of causes and responsibilities. 

Professor Kaiser also adhered to this kind of account in Politics & War, p 323, although he, too, I believe, was in a position to know better.

Nothing could be farther from the truth, when one looks at behind the scenes accounts and at the geopolitical situation.

Kennan wrote some good works on the 19th Century diplomatic and historical run up to WWI.

The Crimean and Franco Prussian Wars were not merely isolated aberrations, either.

Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment, gives a fuller behind the scenes account of responsibility, going back into the 19th century,  than found elsewhere.

RE WESTERN POLITICS

Professor Kaiser thinks a great era in Western politics came to an end in, say, 1980,  "...It isn't: a great era in western politics came to an end several decades ago and a new one is not in sight....." 

I say it came to an end in, say, 1890....

That is a rather big, but not so very big, difference.

RE CHINA WARNS JAPAN BBC

Terms search fattening things up. 

(Hollowing things out.)