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Occasional thoughts about political life in 21st century America
Saturday, April 21, 2007
A semblance of strategy
Since
my earlier post, in which I realized that the US no longer has even the semblance of a strategy in Iraq
, PAF has been scouring the internets for the semblance of a strategy. Now
this
is a strategy:
Of course, if you wanted to nitpick, you could belabor the point that this is a strategy for a pre-emptive nuclear attack on Russia, and is totally irrelevant to the Global War on Terror. But in defense of the Turgidson Strategy, I would point out that it is no less relevant to the GWOT than was our attack on Iraq. So it's no less likely to defeat the terrorists, and therefore worth a try.
PAF's new slogan for the GWOT:
Duck and cover
, or the terrorists win.
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Anti anti-fascists scanning the ether for signs of dissent, disloyalty, and defeatism.
Premature Anti-Fascist
Returning to America from the Spanish Civil War, veterans of the
International Brigades
who fought against Franco in the republican cause were said to have been branded as
Premature Anti-Fascists
. That is, they opposed fascism before World War II, before everyone was supposed to oppose fascism, and therefore were likely to be communist subversives, presumptively disloyal because they fought the fascists too soon. Whether the US government actually used the term itself is now
contested by anti-communist historians
(although it would be difficult to deny the actual
persecution of communists and dissidents
in 20th century America). I use it for the name of my blog because, in my darker moments, I worry about the
proto-fascist tendencies
I see at work in America and because, whether the US government or the Brigadists themselves invented the term, it seems to me a bittersweet badge of honor. For more on the Lincolns, see Peter Carroll,
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
.
What Price Empire?
PAF recommends for News:
Common Dreams News Center
Cursor.org
AlterNet
McClatchy News Service (formerly Knight-Ridder)
PAF's Book List: Some Recommendations
Walter Hixson, The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and US Foreign Policy
James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American Power
James William Gibson, Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in post-Vietnam America
H. Bruce Franklin, MIA: Mythmaking in America
Jerry Lembke, The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam
Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream
Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Larry Everest, Oil, Power, and Empire
Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow
Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris
Thomas Ricks, Fiasco
Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis
Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone
Gary Dorrien, Imperial Designs
Malise Ruthven, A Fury for God
Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack
Sara Diamond, Roads to Dominion
Chip Berlet and Matthew Lyons, Right-Wing Populism in America
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