The Tipping Point
It's arrived. In the last few weeks the political climate has changed. There wasn't a catalystic event, but circumstances have united to bring us to the tipping point.
I remain optimistic about politics and political change despite all apearances because if you take a long term view it's now clear that the Neo-Con agenda, which began to rise under Reagan, is now in the decline and that decline will grow more precipitous in the coming years. I can imagine Cheney running around his bunker crying out, as Stalin did when the Germans advanced on the capital; "We were handed this great legacy and we fucked it up".
The Neo-Con experiment is dying. Even Bush has noticed and is preparing his escape. The mid terms will show us where we are. Sure there are local factors, but the question being asked of the American public is Has the penny dropped yet?
Indeed it appears to be dropping. They're admitting that they don't control Baghdad never mind the whole country. Their once feared fighting machine is disappearing into the sands.
The nearest think the UK has to a strategy is the Army's strong desire to relocate troops from the frying pan of Iraq into the fires of Afghanistan.
One moment the US is talking about troop withdrawls, the next they're saying troop levels will have to be maintained for another ten years.
Tony waits meekly on the sidelines for his instructions. Never have we had a leader so servile, so incapable of standing up for his country, one so mesmerised by power that he is helpless and detatched from reality.
Recently Campbell and Blunkett have spoken about their depression but the frightening reality is that the Blair cabinet is suffering from collective delusions, collective psychosis.
Reading accounts of new labour, one is struck by just how chaotic and dysfunctional they are behind the scenes.
We are led by a government and a party that, collectively is suffering from poor mental health.
The results can be seen in the graveyards of Iraq and Aldershot.
I even your sanguine mood
I even your sanguine mood but I fear that the neocon/neolab are not dying but have succeeded beyond the most paranoid predictions, see henry porter's lecture, james petras clear eyed view of capital's gains and the carnage,death and fear that fills the news. The 'pendulum' has been forced so far to the right that it'll take a hammer to loosen it. We may have some understudies take over the script and dictate it in a more 'nuanced' way, but I'll wait and see how much changes before considering the nightmare over. To me the social gains of the post war period seem increasingly like a blip, and business as usual has been firmly re-established.
Thats why blairwatch should not pass with it's namesake, blairism, the diffuse brand of managerialism that has reduced government to office politics, has plenty of life left in it and as for the more overtly brutal american form, what is left to constrain it?
Well I certainly hope that
Well I certainly hope that Toni, Gordimmo, and the rest of the bunch of NuLabor tosspots don't try to plead insanity at The Hague.
Where I sincerely hope they are headed when the CPS decides war crimes are more important than peerages for cash.
I meant envy your sanguine
I meant envy your sanguine mood, sorry
Or rather "They are
Or rather "They are admitting that they DON'T (or can't) control Baghdad..."
Regards
I hope you're right,
I hope you're right, although it's hard to imagine Dick Cheney experiencing anything resembling self-doubt.
WRT Blunkett, yesterday's Telegraph carries a letter comparing his diaries (just finished on R4) with The Diary of a Nobody, with Blunkett as Charles Pooter. Seems to fit.
Republicans or Democrats?
Republicans or Democrats? New Labour or Green Tories? It will make zero difference because they've all been stiched up. In the words of the jock from Dad's Army, "we're all doooooomed"
oche aye.
the neocon agenda is alive
the neocon agenda is alive and well.don´t kid yourself.
disagree and I´ll throw you in fuckin jail.
So, does anyone have any
So, does anyone have any plans to for staying up all night and watching the most important election in a generation this Nov 7? It's too scary to watch alone.
Why should we expect any
Why should we expect any different from a Democratic Congress ?
The Democratic candidates have all been carefully chosen and most are just as pro war as the Republicans. AIPAC effectively selects the candidates from both parties.
Regarding democrats and
Regarding democrats and AIPAC - check out this guy, Rahm Emanuel. I think the name alone should give one a clue as to what his agenda is.
He's the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and effectivley chooses the candidates - he has ALWAYS favoured pro-war, pro-Israeli candidates, in fact he funds their campaigns.
The US system is simply not a Democracy when the choice is pro-war Republican or pro-war Democrat candidates.
Surely that should be Hitler
Surely that should be Hitler running around the bunker as the Soviets advanced, because in your analogy Cheney gets to reign for many more years. Now I am scared.