Archive for January 3rd, 2007

Nobody — Please, Anonymous, Jr.?

I HATE the pseuonym Nobody. That is exactly my opinion of people OUTSIDE this blog.

We have a world FULL of Nobodys. I resent hosting one more.

Pain accepted my pseudonym. I hereby formally ask “Nobody” to accept Anonymous, Jr. or think of something else.

Nobody, Anonymous, Jr., does not understand the doglike nature of America. Of course we don’t control our own cities and our own borders. Why should those matter to Israel?

It is a common confusion: Europeans cannot separate their inabiliy from our slavelike ability. They are two entirely different things.

Has it OCURRED to me? What do you think I have wasted my LIFE on?

You have completely ignored the point I made. I’m used to that. When my head is frozen, it will be the end of understanding this. People like you will keep trying to persuade me that being a bunch of slaves, a bunch of obedient dogs, is bad.

Hey, Nobody, hey Mark, try to imagine that I KNOW what you are saying.

Try to imagine that I am trying to say something, odd as it may strike you.

The routine opinions are 1) America is enormously powerful or 2) America is morally weak and slavish.

I am getting tired of repeating it, but America is enormously powerful AND morally weak and slavish.

The American militaryis tiny, tinier than the Roman legions relative to the Empire it ruled absolutely. But,as with the legions, there is nobody else.

So, instead of sitting around sticking their tongues out at how silly Americans are, the Jews see this reality and use it.

Meanwhile, others keep saying that moral weakness makes this power stuff all a lie. America can’t be all that strong, says Nobody, because we don’t have moral courage.

America IS all that strong. With moral courage we could be absolute.

Don’t give me platitudes and first century physics.

THINK.

HERE IS HTE DISCUSSION i AM REFERRING TO:

Bob quoted Mark:
how high are the stakes for Iran?

Mark

Bob replied:
MY REPLY ON STORMFRONT:

I’ve given your question a lot of thought.

One point I keep making and people outside my blog ignore is that America is not just the only SUPER power left in the world, it is the only POWER left in the world. Not one other country on the planet projects real military muscle outside its own borders.

In reply:
We can project the Form of “real military muscle outside (our) own borders.”

The substance – in terms of the effectiveness of that force to force substantial positive change – is rather a different issue.

Has it ever occurred to anyone that this is a tremendous net negative for America economically, with a power that can only be used once? Hasn’t the nature of war shifted from the capital-intensive heavily mechanized systems to intelligent organizations that are motivated by the common RACIAL dream of removing the RACIAL Invaders from their territory?

The example of Israel – with its spy satellites, F-16 fighters, advanced communications technology, and atomic weapons – being defeated by fourteen year old boys with hundred dollar Kalishnikovs in Lebanon last year, is stunning proof that the economics, indeed, the very nature of warfare, has changed, and the change is not in our favor.

Bob wrote:
Hell, France doesn’t have control WITHIN its borders.

In reply:
And we do?

Ever seen the membership numbers for the 18th Street Gang in Los Angeles, or how many illegals are in America?

Hell, DETROIT doesn’t have control WITHIN its borders.

Bob wrote:
For this reason, the United States is EXTREMELY dangerous

Never forget the lesson of the Sword of Damocles.

In reply:
I think this is a stronger metaphor than you realized. Remember, the Sword of Damocles can only be used ONCE.

Once the Sword of Damocles has been used, a wide range of flexible political options are permanently foreclosed. The issues are crystallized, the facades are removed, and everyone knows where they really stand. Possible alliances are nor foreclosed, and everyone moves down an ever-narrowing corridor.

Bob wrote:
And America is Israel’s pit bull.

In reply:
It is the perception of many that America is SOLELY Israel’s put bull, and America does SOLELY what Israel wants, in the Mid-East, and certainly does not conflict with Israel’s interest, beyond the Mid-East.

Bob wrote:
I don’t know if you are old enough to remember when Reagan bombed Libya. The American attack planes were allowed to take off from Thatcher’s Britain but they were not allowed to fly over any other country. They made a zigzag around Europe and through the Strait of Gibraltar and returned by the same zigzag route.

In reply:
The greater irony, it seems, is that, America, on “evidence” that seems less rational, than a rationalization, took action against an enemy of Israel. All of the other countries in the region, and beyond – saw this in that context.

Their political memories are strong enough to realize their superiors were right, then, and they will be right, now, to judge ALL American actions in the light of America as the shabbas goy of the goddamn JEWS.

Bob wrote:
All the respectable conservatives are demanding that Bush bomb the nuclear facilities in Iran. I don’t know if even Tony Blair would allow the attack planes to take off from Britain. The Iraqi Government now controls its own air space, and they wouldn’t.

In reply:
Blair will do what we tell him to do; however, as we look to the Muslim demography of New Londonistan, it is hardly likely that this will ignored by their Muslim brethren.

*** Good stuff. But in real politics, Blaire can’t do what we tell him to do. Losing a vote of confience brings up a new election.

This might not be the much-heralded Clash of Civilizations, so much as it is the Clash of RACES – with the White RACE as the proxy for the goddamn JEWS.

Bob wrote:
That could mean that the air assault conservatives demand would be American planes taking off from Israel. Can you imagine the reaction to an air attack on Iran from ISRAEL by the United States?

In reply:
Oh, yes.

Bob wrote:
The usual reaction is to say that the United States couldn’t take the heat for that. But let me repeat, THERE IS NO OTHER POWER ON EARTH EXCEPT ISRAEL’S PIT BULL. The United States could invade Iran with the whole world screaming its effeminate little head off.

In reply:
The United States could take the heat, for a while.

However, this would tell the rest of the world that our facade of being anything more than an irrational bully would be revealed, and there will be a tremendous shift in “world opinion” away from us.

And, this shift will take many forms, such as creating alliances where there weren’t any before.

An example might be the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; incredibly long supply lines, and the use of cost-effective hand-held weaponry by the Mujaheddin, set the stage for the collapse of Empire – the Soviet Union.

I suspect the effect will be no less profound, for us.

Bob wrote:
Don’t fool yourself. When it comes to getting out in the field, there is no armed force on earth that face the Americans even briefly. That would mean terrorist attacks, but do you think that is more important in Washington than taking out Iran if Israel REALLY insists on it?

The Sword of Damocles is over Iran.

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Bidding and Staffing

Mark’s comment made me think about my staff days, when I used to be one of those guys who walks up and whispers something in the congressman’s ear in the middle of a hearing. Then I tried to remember how I used to know it was rime to go up behind him. It’s hard to remember. After al, the last thing a busy man normally wants in the midst of an important exchange is somebody wandering up and talking in his ear.

But the process reminded me of something. You know those big, big auctions where millions are spent on some object, and you can’t tell who bid? The auctioneer is rolling along and he recognizes a bid, but he seems to be the only one who can see it, though I am sure other expert bidders do.

If you think it’s safe NOT to go up and whisper in your boss’s ear, you should have gone through one of the dressing-down staffers got when they failed to do so. You are sitting behind him because you have a job to do, and you had better do it, because job security in a political job is nil.

Junior staffers are there to fetch and carry. But a senior staffer is, among other things, The King’s Remembrancer. As one member put it, “Even if I knew everything, I wouldn’t be able to remember it all at the right time.”

For some reason, committees with 168 hours in the week love to set their meetings at the same time as your boss’s OTHER committees are meeting. Each congressman selects two committees he is on, but the Select Committee on Intelligence was a Special Committee which was tacked on to Ashbrook’s.

So it was routine for Education and Labor, the Judiciary Committee, and the Select Committee on Intelligence not only to meet at the same time, but to meet on critical issues at the same time. On two different occasions, I forgot which committee I was sitting in on. Ashbrook never did.

But in my defense, Ashbrook had us, and I didn’t. It was our job to be damned sure that, when he came off the Floor or from another committee he was primed as quickly as possible. I don’t know how he managed to switch so quickly from being in the details of national security to paperwork in education to the precedents in Article III relative to limiting court jurisdiction, but we HAD to help.

I lost track because I found it confusing enough going from Ed and Labor to Intelligence. It is VERY embarrassing to come up with something ingenious about the last remark someone made about domestic spying and be informed BY YOUR BOSS that you are in Judiciary.

But both times this happened, John enjoyed the hell out of it.

When he came in a senior staffer would come in range and he would indicate, with a slight motion of his head or his ears or his Adam’s Apple or something, that he was already primed for that committee, even though he had just come out of another one. If he did not make that motion, I would tell him where the committee was at the time and what he had wanted to be reminded of.

I was supposed to know. That’s why he paid me the big bucks…

if I did it right ….

Or kicked my butt if I didn’t.

But let me be fair to John. He did scare the hell out of most staffers. In fact, as I said before, he was named by John Anderson as one of the two hardest men on the Hill to work for. But not for me. One of the finest compliments I ever received was second hand from his office manager, a lady who was a good friend of mine. She told me that he said in passing, “Hell, Bob would take a bullet for me.”

John gave me a lot more forgiveness than I gave myself. Once he came into the office on Saturday morning at 2 am. He was ALWAYS in his district any time he could be, so this was unique. But he saw me sitting there working my butt off and he said, “Bob, you’ll work better if you’re ALIVE. GO HOME!”

I must be one of very, very few people who got kicked out of an office on Capitol Hill for working too hard. So when I say, “kicked my butt” I am projecting, trying to give you a picture.

John knew that if I did something wrong, I would kick myself without mercy. John sympathized with my admirable conscience. But he also knew that the time and pain I took kicking myself was time and effort that HE was not getting from me.

Sometimes, simple decency is also excellent sense.

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