Generation 911
There are endless, mindless clichés abroad in the land concerning the meaning of September 11, 2001, and like most of you I detest them. Indeed, they stir up in me a righteous anger—for I am a member of the “9/11 generation,” having come of age at virtually the very moment of the attacks. I was 16 years old, in my second week at Montgomery College in Maryland.
And I bought into the hype. I drank deeply of the euphoria of those heady days and weeks—and let there be no mistake, that is precisely what the spirit of that historical moment was, euphoria. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks we felt confirmed in our most cherished myth: a united America, heir to the “greatest generation,” exulting in a great righteousness of purpose. Just six years later, we who were formed by these events now seethe with anger at the betrayal by our elders. We have seen through the myth, into the gritty and dark reality of war and the politics of war.
In the year before 9/11, I was in my last year of home schooling and just beginning to branch out from the instinctive Clinton-era liberalism of my early adolescence, dallying with both radical left and right. Looking back, I think that were it not for 9/11 and its massive disillusioning power, I probably would have settled down as some species of neocon—and a very ugly one at that. Before I was old enough to appreciate the history and legacy of the ideas I was developing, I believed firmly in American predestination to spread its empire of liberty across the globe and thus immanentize the eschaton. But that was before George W. Bush, Ariel Sharon, and the conquest of America by Iraq. Once all this had revealed itself, by the time I was 18, I was a dedicated Kirkian, and thus do I remain.
As several historians have suggested, the historical event to which the 9/11 attacks are most comparable is the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand—a single stroke of terrorism that set in motion the virtual collapse of Western civilization. The September 11 attacks pushed this process forward, repealing the world order which was ushered in by the bloodbath of old Europe—in other words, the 20th century itself. For this is the sacred story of the American empire, the sacred story which I, as a young partisan of the age of Clinton, bought into hook, line, and sinker, until the moment of great disillusionment. In his essay The Fall Of Modernity, Michael Vlahos captured the moment perfectly:
Empires that come to identify themselves with the universal can not separate themselves from sacred story without destroying themselves…. Thus the attacks were not simply a violation of the national person, but an affront to all that was right and true. Simple retribution would not be enough—we had to utterly destroy the prophecy couched in 9/11 and reassert American predestination.
If 9/11 was our Sarajevo, then my generation of young Americans is living through its version of All Quiet On The Western Front. Brought up on a crude distillation of the sacred story known as that of the “greatest generation,” then washed in the post-9/11 euphoria, we were going to relive and renew the glory of our grandfathers who fought and won the Second World War—the myth which formed the crucible of the American empire—and fight and win an even greater battle for all that was right and true. But in fact what we’re witnessing is a great deal more like World War I. And much like all those boys who marched off for King and Kaiser to slaughter each other all the way from the Somme to the Balkans, we have been literally dis-illusioned. Not only those those relatively few of us who have actually been over there to see the grim reality of war, but also those who have slogged through the politics of war here at home—the grim, quasi-totalitarian reality of a “democracy at war.”
It’s true, of course, that America in 2007 is a vastly different society than France or Germany in 1914. We are less overtly (and more covertly) militaristic and more deeply (if less overtly) bourgeois liberal. Nor have we faced anything like the carnage that was brought upon the major actors in the First World War. But we face the same use and abuse of political myths as the citizens of those countries. Again, Vlahos is spot on:
Because the national narrative is a sacred retelling of God’s message and His American mission, its periodic restaging always assumes the form of a great war—revolution, civil war, world war. But after 9/11, there was no great war to be had, so we created a simulacrum. Up to a point, we might keep it looking like a war. But at last it will not perform for us. It cannot support the demands of the drama we require.
We are no longer a society which seeks such drama. My generation certainly doesn’t. We are, at root, fundamentally the same as all the other bourgeois liberal societies of the West who have laid down their sword and shield—and this, of course, is what has been so deeply dreaded by the neocons ever since they first came out of the woodwork in the 1960s. This is the fundamental reality of my generation, the 9/11 generation, and how profoundly disillusioned we have become in the American sacred story in all its different facets. For me, it was in the first weeks and months after 9/11 that I first learned about the ideology called neoconservatism. That knowledge chastened me, and shook my faith in the sacred story.
I became virtually overnight converted to what was for that first year after 9/11 the generally held position of authentic conservatives—that Bush should be generally praised for his caution and restraint and resistance to the designs of the neocons. Indeed, I treasured hope that Bush would align with and further model himself after Putin, and purge the neocons as Putin was beginning to purge the oligarchs who finance them, when I attended the gathering of the radical left in Washington—whom I’d begun flirting with, in search of answers. I left the meeting with two friends of this persuasion, who subsequently went still further off the deep end: one became a neo-Nazi cult leader as dangerous as he is ridiculous, and the other a sannysin of Lyndon LaRouche.
It’s easy, in the wake of the Iraq invasion, to forget what else was going on at the time—for instance, the bloodiest period of the Palestinian Intifada, in the spring of 2002. For a time, it should be recalled, Bush actually appeared to promote negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians—but by the summer of that year, he dramatically reversed course and essentially declared himself a Likud partisan. That helped set the stage for his aggression against Iraq. It is significant that in several interviews John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have stated that their interest in the Israel Lobby originated not with the beginnings of the war in Iraq but with the dramatic reversal by the Bush regime that occurred in summer 2002—which proved the turning point in his presidency.
For myself, and I think for my generation, the betrayal represented by Bush’s Likud turn was so powerful because it was the end of the euphoria. The exercise of self-affirmation that followed attacks was so euphoric because it was, well—a celebration of all that was right and true. On the other hand, resurgence of Israeli intransigence was an aggressive and militarized particularist nationalism. If this was not obvious to Americans then or even at the start of the Iraq War, it has become painfully clear as America has adopted the Israeli strategic template to its attempts at managing (even dominating) the world.
Returning to Mearsheimer and Walt, it is important to note that we are not dealing with “conspiracy” here, that rather, as the brilliant Anatol Lieven has pointed out, there is a solid and ominous precedent for a great empire to be so totally and ruthlessly manipulated by a satellite: Namely the Serbian use of Russia in 1914, which was so crucial to igniting the First World War and indeed all the horrors of the 20th century. But when we consider the novel self-definition of the American empire through its sacred story, the question which arises is a frightful one: How did the Jewish people, in addition to finding themselves as the lonely foremost defenders of modern nationalism at precisely the time it has become outmoded, allow themselves to be at the center of the sacred story of the American empire with all the calamity that this shall surely bring? I ask this because I am a Jew, and only recently have I begun to find peace with my identity—in large measure because I finally arrived at this, the right question, after years of disillusionment, and the resolve and dedication to answer it.
But if the disillusionment of my generation of both Jews and Americans has been the fruit of distinctly postmodern convictions and premises, this shaping of the 9/11 generation has been of a profoundly conservative character and effect. That is, much as it has been lamented that there is no effective “antiwar movement,” what is notable in my generation is the complete renunciation of the romance of revolution which prevailed in the 60s—a spirit which, as intelligent observers have noted, is itself partly responsible for our present perpetual wars.
This is not apathy but a sense of healthy priorities—indeed, the generation most celebrated for its apathy, the so-called “Generation X” roughly 10-20 years older than the 9/11 generation, has become largely left-neocon in its middle age, and among Jews they are the most virulently Zionist, in sharp contrast to the 9/11 generation. The Ron Paul phenomenon, especially when contrasted to the complete collapse of the antiwar left, has been but one manifestation of the completely new and remarkably conservative politics of my own generation.
Finally, a word about New York, where I moved a year and a half ago and where it all happened. As anyone who lives here could tell you, in the years since 9/11 this city has only prospered (in many ways obscenely) and this tells us much. Only two year earlier I am sure it would have been much different, but to New York 9/11 is but a distant and fading memory. The far greater threat to this city and to our glorious bourgeois existence comes from the neocon regime of perpetual war for perpetual peace. Thus this city is, perhaps, the perfect metaphor for the triumph of bourgeois liberalism against the war party, indeed, it was here where I made the friends through whom I became acquainted with my generation. I have come of age, and I have come home to Brooklyn, to the time and place which is the ultimate symbol of defiance of the spirit of this age of empire.
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The second intafada did it for me too,I dumped National Review after a 40 year subscription and dumped Rush Limbaugh and Fox News when they all went, all war and all Israel, all the time, 2002 the big year.
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Dear Mr. Ross. Please convey to your parents my love and respect. As a Father myself I understand our children are our most important work.
How proud they must be of you. Even if I disagreed with you, and I most certainly do not, I would still admire the clarity with which you think and write.
God Bless, sir. You are a real treasure.
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You, sir, reveal much in your apologia; namely that you need a great deal of further maturation. Bon Chance, petit un!
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As a Generation X’er I can say that we have not all been Neo-conned into being Neocons. I myself, as well as many Gen X friends have been Ron Paul Libertarians from the start. The celebrated “apathy” of my generation is just media hype as is the hype of the “greatest generation.”
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Hoo Boy. I was just preparing to write an unreservedly, glowingly laudatory comment in praise of Mr Ross and this brilliant article of his, UNTIL I got distracted when I saw the comment by “John Kovarik” (the surname COMBINED with his ungenerous comment, to my experienced ears, smacks of a typical son of aggrieved McCarthyite-LATE-White-immigrants-to-America,
those second and third generation Americans who descend from the half-barbarian peasant stock of Central and Eastern Europe, the kind who supported the Irish-German Joe McCarthy while he went on a rampage trying to prove that he and his kind were more “American” than the OLD Anglo-American stock whom they resented and envied...)
...Ah, as I was saying, Mr “Kovarik’s” (how the f--- is that name spelled in the language of my English ancestors?) - Mr Kovarik’s nasty comment here appeared like a bit of doggie-poo in front of an otherwise pristine hotel.
I can see, that Mr Ross does not need much more “maturation”, but Mr Kovarik (have I spelled your impossible name right in my own English language, to which your family are a newcomers?) - Mr Kovarik needs a hell of a lot more maturation than Mr Ross, our new (Jewish) colleague among the writers on Taki’s blog.
Now from me to you, Mr Ross:
1. You write beautifully. And your writing is all the more impressive in view of your youth. You are exactly half my age (your 22 to my 44), and yet you write more beautifully and more logically than I can do at twice your age.
2. I agree with 90 percent of what you wrote here, which you have written more eloquently than I could ever do.
3. Your courage (as a public Jew) in publishing your article here is impressive, considering how a considerable (but minority) number of our commenters just hate Jews, even though they will cover up their hatred of Jews with myriad disclaimers. But rest assured that our editors, Taki and FJ Sarto, are enemies of all antisemites. You came to the right place, here; THIS blog is an enemy of all neo-nazis, just like Taki’s father was an enemy of the Nazis.
You, Sir, Mr Ross - honourable American patriot, and Jew - YOU belong here! Please stick around, even if a small handful of antisemitic commenters here might make you want to feel like you need a long hot cleansing bath after you step into their
shitty comments left like doggie-poops…
4. What you wrote about “Generation X”
and how most of them become neocons, resonates with me. I’m so glad you pointed it out; it needs to be discussed more.
I voted for Walter Mondale in 1984 - at age 21 - the first Presidential election in which I ever voted. I voted for Mondale because even at that tender age, I was horrified by the vulgarity of so many soft, spoiled American college students of my generation who voted for Reagan as CHICKENHAWKS! When I was 21, in 1984, most of my college classmates “supported” Reagan and his stupid wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua (and the US role in Afghanistan, which was started by bloody Jimmy Carter), and they all pretended to be “patriots”, while I kept asking them,
“yeah, well, if you really support America’s intervention in Afghanistan and Nicaragua, then WHY DON’T YOU ENLIST in the armed forces? It’s one thing to say you “support” Reagan and his shitty little wars in distant jungles - but if you REALLY support Reagan, then why the f--- don’t you leave our nice little college and ENLIST in America’s armed forces?”
And in 1984, none, not a single one of those little Chickenhawks I went to college with, had an answer for that, except to say, “You’re a dick.” Which I am in some ways ;-), but that’s beside the point.
5. In 1984, when I was 21, I found out that my name had gotten onto the FBI list of potential subversives - because at that age I had protested in public against America’s meddling in El Salvador and Nicaragua. (I know this because my older sister - 14 years older than I - applied for a job as a Federal prosecutor in that year, and when they were doing a security check on her, the FBI sent agents to my countryside native valley in Pennsylvania to ask questions about me.)
And now some commenters on THIS blog accuse me of being a “neocon fellow traveler” because I say the war against Hitler was necessary, even while I say all American wars after 1945 were unnecessary, especially the disastrous one in Iraq today.
Go figure. The FBI have a big dossier on me because I protested against Reagan’s wars in Central America, and later I protested against the war in Iraq in 2003. And now some commenters here call me a “neocon fellow traveler”, after I’ve done more in public - and lost more, personally and materially - by resisting the Neocon cabal than many of THEM (my accusers on this blog) did in 2003. Ugh.
6. Anyway, Mr Ross, for what it’s worth, as one of Taki’s regular writers
I join Taki and FJ Sarto in welcoming you enthusiastically to our “band of brothers.” You write beautifully and truthfully, in ways we, and the world, desperately need right now.
Shalom,
Salaam Aliukum,
Pax vobiscum,
And a big glass of vodka from me,
John
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I am older than Mr. Ross and thus my disillusionment came earlier. It was the Buchanan presidential campaigns of the 90s and the Republican reaction to them that did the trick. My first thought on 9/11 was “It’s finally ahppened!”
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Fantastic piece of work, Jack! Congratulations!
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An excellent piece of writing Mr.Ross. It is always good to see a Jew
with the courage to come forward and oppose the policies of Israel.
It is people like yourself who show that those of us who also oppose
Israel’s policies are not anit-semites. This contention by some individuals who post
comments here is in itself anti-semitic. It assumes there is a single
minded mentality in everyone who calls themselves a Jew. I am encouraged
that there is a strong peace movement in Israel by Jews with the courage
to go against the mainstream ideology of the country. Much as I, as a Catholic
oppose war mongering Catholics in this country am not anti-Catholic.
To Mr. Ball, that you have consistently opposed wars and suffered for it
is indeed commendable. I just find it confusing that you feel the need to
attack people who for the most part agree with you. I personally feel that
every war we have been in since the Civil War was unnecessary. So we disagree on
that point. So what? It doesn’t make me or anyone else a Nazi sympathizer, neo-Nazi,
brownshirt, Klansmen, or any other derogative term.
Let’s not scrap the movement for disagreements over conflicts that have long since
passed. I think it is a wonderfull thing that you, a Mondale supporter,
and I a Republican who has voted for Ralph Nader in the last two elections, have
much that we do agree on and have come together on this wonderful site put
together by Taki.
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Mr Preston wrote,
“Fantastic piece of work, Jack! Congratulations!”
Ditto. Mr Ross, you’ve got some major admirers here already! Please keep it coming!
And now a SECOND triple-shot glass of vodka from me!
(The limit for mere mortals is three 100 ml glasses of vodka in one gulp; the fourth one is reserved for God, and no mortal man has ever shared three with me in one gulp, although I hope Taki will do so someday! - but Mr Ross, you’ve come as close as possible to earning the most drinks I can handle in one draught! :-)
Mr Ross, good on ya! Keep it coming!
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Mr. Ball,
I have also often thought that it is hypocritical of people to put a yellow
ribbon on their vehicle that states ‘support our troops’. My feeling is exactly
like you stated. If someone supports them then there is plenty of opportunity
for them to be one. I think the military should have no over age limit.
That way none of these overage individuals will feel the need to be left out
of the fun. They can be patrolling the streets of Iraq helping to build
a democracy in the middle east. Hoorah!!!
I just saw the most despicable show on the neo-con paid programing channel
called also the History Channel. Talk about the American Myth Mr. Ross.
This show called Shootout depicts re-enactments of American troops on the ground
in Iraq in urban combat. There is a video game of the same name that you
can buy so in case you prefer to play video games to watching tv or
going to public school, you still can get your full dose of indoctrination
into the myth building process.
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PS, to my - and our - friend Mr Nucci, who wrote,
“To Mr. Ball, that you have consistently opposed wars and suffered for it
is indeed commendable. I just find it confusing that you feel the need to
attack people who for the most part agree with you”
With some reservations I accept that reproach. I’m a romantic idealist disciple of Oriental AND European martial arts and ideals - like our host Taki - and so, I fight for and defend anything and everything which I consider to be a matter of Honour, just like Taki does.
Mr Nucci, please understand, that my fighting against some things you say, does NOT mean that I do not respect you.
I have lived in China for many years, and like our host, Taki, I know how to fight while respecting my opponents. That is the way of “Bushido” - the name of our host Taki’s boat.
So, now I bow respectfully to M. Nucci, and to all of my occasional adversaries here on Taki’s “Bushido” blog. Our ideal here is - or OUGHT to be - that we can fight among each other fiercely, and yet respect each other.
THAT is the way of Bushido, and of Taki, and of me too after many years in China.
As Bruce Lee said in “Enter the Dragon” (and I KNOW Taki knows that very FUN movie! :-), Bruce Lee’s teacher asked him:
“How will you fight your enemy?”
And Bruce Lee replied,
“I have no enemy, because “I” do not exist!” (Our Christian St Paul would agree with this!: “There is nothing but Christ in me” and no enemies can ever defeat Christ...... ;-) :-
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Mr.Ross,
Congratulations on your political coming of age.
You are right to identify with the peace
movement of Dr.Ron Paul because it is your
generation that is fueling it!
It is your generation that has been raised on
the written word (the internet) rather than the
spoken word (television.) The difference can
only be described as amazing.
Your generation is proving to be a great new
hope for America and I am cheering you all
the way. Your indignation is just. Never settle
for words.
Never give up on the American dream of Peace,
Prosperity and Liberty.
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It never ceases to amaze me, with what chutzpah Mr. Ball and Mr. Nucci use this forum to mainly pat each other on the back for their fine support of a nice young Jewish fellow, and make clear to not fully supportive voices like Mr. Kovarik, that the voices of those half barbarian Middle and Eastern European peasants, along with those pesky Irish (or heaven forbid even German) hordes will not be tolerated by the anti-antisemitic writers on Mr. Taki’s blog. I am now just waiting for the ever so vigilant Adriana to pipe in. One is wondering, if they have something actually to contribute to the discussion on the subject at hand other than self-promotion and personal attacks on the lowest level.
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Well put Mr. Ball.
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@David Libori
WEll, for starters I have a great sympathy for the Irish,
as I am an admirer of Eamon de Valera.
I do like German, MIddle, and Eastern Europe peasants.
Provided that they are truly pesants.
Their children, who after receiving an education which
their parents only dreamed of persist in wilful ignorance
I have less patiences for. Those descendants of inmigrants
who are proud of their ancestry I like. Those who
insist on being Americans to the point of beating up
on those who are not “American enough” for their taste
I feel need correcting. Whether they vent their spleen
on the descendants of the WASPS who were sconrful of
their forebears or on new arrivals, they need to clean
up their act, and being moral agents, need to be rebuked
when they do something wrong.
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Mr. Ross had me solidly in his corner until he
started to use the historically inappropriate term
“bourgeois liberal"to describe yuppie consumerists
living in a postbourgeois age. As the author of the
book After Liberalism, I’ve no idea how the types
Mr. Ross is holding up to ridicule are either"liberal"
or"bourgeois" in any meaningful historical sense.
WhatI would not question is that whatever the neocons
may be ideologically, Mr. Ross is correct to identify
them sociologically with the Big Apple.
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I stand by my characterization of the “consumerist post-bourgeoisie” as bourgeois liberal in at least the fundamental sense, and, I would argue, in certain ways indeed more so than the historic type.
To be strait and to the point, they are not leftists of the old type in that they have no desire to resurrect the New Deal or the old popular front narrative of “national greatness”, and insofar as they are culturally Marxist they are rarely of an ideological bent or commitment.
If they can be accused of hating Bush for misguided, though usually right reasons, there is one thing that the crude caricatures of “red” and “blue” America have in common on foreign policy - each, with their own rationale, supported the American empire as long as it meant splendid little wars like Kosovo, but not when it means our present situation.
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An excellent reflection, and so it would be were you a gentile thrice your age. The thought of a Generation 911 cheers me considerably, and does seem to describe the folks in their 20s whom I happen to run into. It is good to think of the neocons as dinosaurs, who never got over the juxtaposition of the Israeli triumphs with the shameful evacuation of Saigon — not that the only shameful thing about the Vietnam war is that we lost it! Glad to see you. My best to Brooklyn.
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Well put Mr.Libori.
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so what is the meaning of 9/11...when a building like world trade center no 7 can implode into it’s own footprint because of a fire in the building and noone dares to mention in a flowery speech about 9/11.
what else could it mean other than to say that we are self censuring ourselves.
a whole entire f-n building collapsed because of a fire and no mention of it in your tale of 9/11 from a liberated young man with more sense than most his age.
no flowers from me...although your english and or composition teachers must be awful proud of you if they saw you now.
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“Empires that come to identify themselves with the universal can not separate themselves . . .” etc.
All this is really too clever by half, taking what is really something fairly simple and expanding it into unnecessarily complex analysis. The Bush administration went to war in Iraq for pretty much the same reasons that Galtieri went to war in the Falklands - domestic politics. They went to war to take the public’s (and particularly Republican voters) eyes off the fact that the Republican party has spent the last 4 decades or so acquiescing to the deconstruction of America, primarily through mass immigration, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to continue conning their constituency into believing there is a “dime’s worth of difference” between them and the Democrats. This is the politically correct administration that is laying on a police state allegedly to stop Islamic terrorism while it invites Muslims to colonize America and the West (the jerk in the White House lobbied for Turkey to be admitted to the EU. Our protector, what a laugh).
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Dave Libori,
I really don’t know where you are coming from since the other day I
was accused by Adriana of wanting to convert to Islam like a silly
liberal Lola Granola. I am unashamedly a voice of apologizing
for unsavory Germans, Irish, Russians, middle easterners, Japanese, basically anyone labeled an
official enemy of the state. They being the weapons of mind control used by
the state to subjugate the masses.
I had no comment on Mr. Kovarik’s comment.
If you could call it that anyway. What does ‘Bon Chance petit un’ lend to
the discussion other than he accuses the writer of being immature?
I wonder, would he have known to accuse the writer of being immature if Mr. Ross
hadn’t stated his age in the article? Perhaps if Mr. Kovarik had stated
in what way he felt Mr. Ross’s article is immature I would have had some
comment.
I am even more confused at what fault you can find in an admitted neo-con
convert to Ron Paul as Mr. Ross stated he is in the article.
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As I was about to compliment Mr Ross on his article, I got a usual rebuff:
THE FOLLOWING ERRORS WERE ENCOUNTERED
·You are not authorized to perform
this action.
Can anyone explain the meaning of this?
Taki Palikari, where are you
when I need you?
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Mr. Peter RV, I think you may have run into a temporary glitch in the system. The same thing happened to me a little while ago. I tried two or three more times and finally successfully made my post.
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Dear Mr. Nucci:
I apologize if I misunderstood your support for Mr. Ball’s ad hominem attack on Mr. Kovarik’s heritage.
I certainly welcome Mr. Ross’s conversion from a Saulus neocon to a Paulus Ron Paul supporter, and hope that he will manage to stay there. However, he should be aware that his generation is discovering something new. Us Baby Boomer’s have been supporting Ron for over 20 years, making sure that there is still a voice of reason in Congress.
At the same time Mr. Ross may clarify one point for me: He repeatedly identifies himself as a Jew and an American. May I deduce from this that his identification as a Jew plays an predominant role in his opinions as an American?
I never heard other’s of his generation of Americans qualifying their vision of America’s role and future as “Norwegian and American” or “Nigerian and American” or “Indian Buddhist and American”. Or are Jews exempt from the requirement to be American first and only and to keep their association with another country or their religion on a second tier, private and cultural level? I hope not.
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The only objection to otherwise a most encouraging Mr.Ross’s article, is the comparison of Israel to Serbia as manipulators of big powers, the U.S.A(now) and Russia(WWI), respectively.
Serbia was slammed ultimatum by the Austro-Hungarian Empire to accept the Empire’s police to enter Serbian territory in search of the conspirators for the assassination of the Archi-duke Franz Ferdinand. This Serbs could not accept it for it would have meant giving up their sovereignity( they did accept all other demands on Russia’s insistance which was not prepared for war).
The closest equivalence of this would have been to Israel being forced (by whom?) to allow a search for Arafat’s poisoner on its teritory by , say , some U.N. police.Alternative being war.
In the art of manipulation Serbs a pure amateurs compared to Israelis.
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@Dave Libori
The reason why Jews do not behave like other ethnic
groups in self-definition was given years ago by
Brendan Behan
“Other people have nationalities. The Irish and the
Jews share a psychosis.”
Of course, both Irish and Jews will tell you that they
have good reasons to be psychotic. And they have a good
case for it (pace John Ball).
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By Jove young man, you sure can write. I’m far too polite to ask you if you actually believe the official version of 911. I’m inclined to think the Archduke Ferdinand and 911 events had at least ONE common characteristic and were done for much the same reason.
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Are there always so many racist elitists reading Taki’s mag? Forgive my father for giving me a non-English name and encouraging my aethism you fools!
Sona baka na!
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Mr. Ross,
I would suggest an alternate reason for Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. He most likely just couldn’t resist allowing his patrons the full access to the US treasury that would be theirs once the war was begun. The fact that this would lead to total destruction of the American economy hasn’t dawned on him, or has been dismissed as irrelevant.
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