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July 30, 2010

Deep thought

Alpha: Caroline Glick on the collaboration of Israel's ruling class with the bien pensant Leftists who form the permanent ruling clique of the United States.

This week Ha'aretz - the trumpet of Israel's ruling class - gave us all a primer in how this sort of thing works. In an article titled, "Obama has ways and means to check on Netanyahu," military commentator Amir Oren disclosed the close collaboration between the Obama administration and a handful of hard-left retired IDF officers against the Netanyahu government.

And then: A Grad missile launched from the Gaza Strip landed in a central, residential area in the southern city of Ashkelon Friday morning.

Beta: Niall Ferguson offers a Gouldian view of the historical process (I make joke): "What if collapse does not arrive over a number of centuries but comes suddenly, like a thief in the night?" Hamfisted New Testament references aside, I have a similar view of the problem.

Empires exhibit many of the characteristics of other complex adaptive systems, including the tendency to move from stability to instability quite suddenly. But this fact is rarely recognised because of our addiction to cyclical theories of history.

Gamma: Newt Gingrich on America and Islam. Video at the link.

Newt is fantastic and calls it like it is. He makes me want to make a T shirt saying: “2+2=4? RACIST! My little objection to the dialectic scam. In any case please do watch this superb video of Newt G. Really, it is worth your time.

Delta: Jerry Pournelle argues the Wikileaks documents "told the public nothing it needed to know; but they have made the Afghan War unwinnable under the previous definition of win. It is time and past time to reconsider what our objectives are."

He is correct.

Epsilon: Spengler and a truth so difficult to express because it is so blindingly obvious.

The 92,000 American classified military documents released by WikiLeaks add to the evidence that Pakistan's intelligence service backs the Taliban, to the point of helping the Taliban plan assassinations of American and Afghan officials.

This raises the question: Who covered up a scandalous arrangement known to everyone with a casual acquaintance of the situation? The answer is the same as in Agatha Christie's 1934 mystery about murder on the Orient Express, that is, everybody: former United States president George W Bush and vice president Dick Cheney, current US President Barack Obama and Vice

Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 30, 2010 08:48 AM

Comments

If you liked Niall Ferguson's lecture, it's a retread of a much longer essay originally published in the March/April edition of Foreign Affairs magazine.

Posted by: Chris Taylor [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 30, 2010 10:00 AM

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