My willingness to embarrass myself knows no bounds. If my eyes are not deceiving me there were many a Middle-east old hands in the State Dept. who had to be put aside so the neoconnized new blood could take his place. And that happened elsewere too, while slowly the stupidest guys on earth could feel at home in their politically appointed seats. And oil, of course, the snake oil of equality that made it imperative to throw aside the more competent people so the miriads of Jennifer Lynne Matthews could prove how smart they are and the miriads of Obamas could find their ways open, in fact so open that they could change even their countries of birth as many times as needed for the purpose of milking the affirmative action plus foreign exchange paths of academia and enter politics with the best of resumes. So there they are, the ambitious, but all accomodating women careerists, the young know-nothings and obamases and the surviving sycophants of officedom put in decision places to fill the void created by the dismissal of those who knew something about the Middle-east and were an obstacle to the zionists and the politicians under their sway (usually of democrat extraction). And this process will never end because it takes a lot of time and a lot of able-brain willingness to regain the lost knowledge. A thing impossible in a country where "this belief [that] springs from the notion that humans are so much alike everywhere that surely they must all want to become part of the West and in doing that reject their "worthless" outmoded ways" is as valid in foreign policy as it is in internal affairs, where the absurd laws of disparate impact and the quota-everywhere people are making life especially hard for the competent, who are usually of the wrong sex and skin color, while everyone waits for the flash mobbers to westernize somehow and the girls to grow some balls other than those prosthetics of feminazi making whose only use is in the calling of hard-thinking men wussies when they do not agree with their dogmatic certainties. But perhaps my comments have no resemblance to reality, not in this age where nulities like Elena Kagan can rise to be a Supreme Court justice while people still have the obstinate blindness to attribute such feats of tribal manipulation to raw intelligence. Let's wait till reality becomes a bit more clear and people start to remember that foreign policy in the Middle-east was really better when the offices responsible for it were considered to harbor plenty of antisemites. Anonymous
This sounds like something I would write.
Bravo, Anonymous. I hope you write some more.
Posted by: Tyler | 26 August 2012 at 02:08 AM
great rant. lest we abandon hope, perhaps this short piece will remind us of the danger of cynicism
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Cynicism-The-Battle-Cry-o-by-Peter-Michaelson-120821-417.html
Posted by: dan of steele | 26 August 2012 at 04:51 AM
Odd to find myself paraphrasing Ayn Rand but here goes: They can avoid reality but they can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
Posted by: JMH | 26 August 2012 at 07:51 AM
RE: "this belief [that] springs from the notion that humans are so much alike everywhere that surely they must all want to become part of the West and in doing that reject their "worthless" outmoded ways"
Yes, [this is a MOST ridiculous a$$umption] but what alternatives are there?
MOST folks outside the U.S. DO NOT want to be like the West.
Never-ending war between the West & the Rest?
Posted by: YT | 26 August 2012 at 09:02 AM
JLM, sad events there. I wonder how many folks fled as fasts as they could from working with/under her?
Posted by: Fred | 26 August 2012 at 09:58 AM
This rant seems long on name-calling, short of facts, and curiously selective in its aspersions.
Remind me what proportion of the people who initially engineered and authorized the Great Crusade Against Terror were of the wrong "sex and skin color", or "of democrat extraction"?
Posted by: toto | 26 August 2012 at 10:41 AM
Lenin said as much.
Posted by: Babak Makkinejad | 26 August 2012 at 11:38 AM
With apologies to GRRM:
"Blue or Red, a Dragons is still a Dragon."
I just hop, and I'm probably wrong, this hubris does not spread to the military. The General-grade Officers bend the knees faster than Privates, Field-grade Officers are eager for advancement, but Company-grade Officers deal with reality. There is still hope in the darkness.
Posted by: Jose | 26 August 2012 at 12:14 PM
Somewhere a master of the universe is crying. Rand paraphrasing Lenin.
Posted by: SAC Brat | 26 August 2012 at 12:22 PM
''They can avoid reality but they can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.''
Yea they can. They're all like the Bush II aide who remarked that 'they' create reality and while we're all sitting around discussing the reality they go on to create a new reality. Reality is to them is whatever they say reality is.
They all have Munchausen's by proxy syndrome anyway....they stir up sick shit so they can put on their taxpayer provided Batman capes and prance around the world pretending to cure the sick shit they created..then rinse and repeat and on to more sick shit.
BTW if you like Ayn Rand you should love these idiots. Rand's whole premise was that averge people were dunces,common labor was basically worthless and elite and superior leaders and innnvoators alone made the world go round. She neglected to understand that if these 'lessers' jump ship the elites would be adrift in their Grand Visions boat without a motor or paddles, to get anywhere. A realist she wasn't.
Posted by: Cal | 26 August 2012 at 01:01 PM
Apparently the State Dept was a bastion of competence before them Democrats took over the place and ruined things with their diversity and multicult.
Some reasonable things in there but a lot of it reads as a jumble of personal dislikes thrown together in a stream of consciousness rant.
I just don't buy that there was some purge of experienced, valuable assets. Where's the proof of this? A different group gained influence, that's for sure.
The foreign policy hands that dominated GHWB's WH were on a different page from those in GWB's WH who seemed to be taking their marching orders from the Knesset.
Posted by: Will Reks | 26 August 2012 at 01:25 PM
toto, right on. As if Scalia and Thomas were great choices.
Posted by: Nancy K | 26 August 2012 at 01:40 PM
Tyler, you could do a lot better than this crybaby whiner.
Posted by: r whitman | 26 August 2012 at 01:57 PM
Uh, how is Scalia not a good choice other than "Hurr he makes me mad!!!" His opinion alone on Graham vs Connor is fascinating, to say nothing of his recent opinions on SB1070 and Obamacare.
Have you read any of his decisions or just had your outlook decided for you by Rachel Maddox?
Posted by: Tyler | 26 August 2012 at 02:05 PM
I think he was making the point that cultural marxism and the Jacobins/Frankfurt School adherents were the ones who fucked up State.
Posted by: Tyler | 26 August 2012 at 02:06 PM
Appreciate the compliment, but I agree with many of the sentiments expressed.
Posted by: Tyler | 26 August 2012 at 02:07 PM
Connect the dots, and you'll see which race is agitating behind the scenes constantly.
Posted by: Tyler | 26 August 2012 at 02:09 PM
I think the attempt to imply some sort of equivalency between the American terrorist numbskull Neocons and the dreaded female careerists in the foreign policy arena suggests this particular 'Anonymous' might be well served to get back on his meds and resume treatment for his 'mommy problems'.
Posted by: Stephen Jones | 26 August 2012 at 02:15 PM
Yes, a common enough failing of people with high IQ.
They are smart but without (common) sense....
As they say, you can go to college and study enough philosophy to ruin the rest of your life...
Posted by: Babak Makkinejad | 26 August 2012 at 02:16 PM
That wasn't supposed to be a rant. It was a comment inside a post with its proper context. It was emphatic as it should be.
But man, I really like the fool's picture! I'm long schooled in the arts of being the last to laugh, usually at my own misery, though never at my own prediction errors.
Still, I'd like to remind people of two things:
First, the only reason there are neocons inside the republican party is the protection given them by the democrat wing during the culture wars. Before people laugh at the sight of Romney's foreign policy team, they should perhaps see in it the very capitulation of republicans to the democrat-based jewish network, media and politics.
Second, the responsibility for the whole NUMEC affair and its disastrous consequences lies entirely in the shoulders of democrats. The renowned scientist giving cover to the israeli operative, the LBJ administration and the jewish admiral opening the doors, all of them democrats. No wonder there were so few comments in that most grievous thread.
To me the general jacobin overtake theory hides the hard truth that it was from machinations inside the democrat party, fuelled by zionist money, that the american people lost their freedom and future. That's my view. I'm a foreigner and a fool.
Posted by: Anonymous | 26 August 2012 at 02:32 PM
Anonymous
The picture of a jester was not meant to depict you but rather the army of ignorant fools who currently inhabit the US Government. My apologies, I will take down the picture. pl
Posted by: turcopolier | 26 August 2012 at 02:59 PM
My question is: why print this in this forum? Is it supposed to be provocative? I can find crap like this on any comment section in the right wing fever swamps. I hope for better when I come here.
Posted by: Paul in NC | 26 August 2012 at 03:02 PM
Paul in NC
Once again, I run this place and not you. You should get out of NC more and learn to deal with reality in Washington.. I agree with much if not all of what he says. As he says the Executive Branch has been purged of anyone of any real stature and the old people have been replaced with PC servants of special interest who usually know nothing in the true sense. Why do you think we are folloeing such idiot policies in the ME. Goodbye, hopefully forever. I thought I had run you off before. pl
Posted by: turcopolier | 26 August 2012 at 03:07 PM
Someone should write a novel about the 'lessers' jumping ship. They could title it . . . Spartacus Shrugged.
Posted by: different clue | 26 August 2012 at 03:17 PM
Ok, so it's the Democrats' fault that the Republican foreign policy element has been taken over by neocons and zionists.
I do recall reading that many of the early neocons were former Trotskyites but they left behind any affiliation with the left decades ago.
Posted by: Will Reks | 26 August 2012 at 03:26 PM