Posted on 03/26/2005 1:53:56 PM PST by Shermy
"Let Iceland keep the sociopath"
The United States has declared war on countries as varied as Albania and Canada. Well, not in real life, but in the movies. Maybe it's time to set our sights on Iceland. Not in real life — at least not yet.
What has Iceland done to offend this country so grievously? It conferred citizenship on chess savant Bobby Fischer.
That in itself may not seem like a big deal to people who only remember Fischer as the grandmaster who put the United States on the chess map by defeating Russian Boris Spassky for the world chess championship in Reykjavik, Iceland, almost 33 years ago. But Fischer has been a wanted criminal ever since he violated United Nations sanctions against Yugoslavia by accepting $3.5 million to play a rematch against Spassky in 1992 in the Balkans.
This was no small matter. Serbians, under the guidance of Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic — now on trial as a war criminal — were slaughtering Bosnians and other ethnic groups. The United Nations and United States were seemingly powerless to stop the carnage and imposed sanctions as part of a remedy to isolate Yugoslavia. Then along came Fischer to thumb his nose and cash in with Serbian blood money. He has been on the run ever since, hiding in Hungary, the Philippines (where he said about the attack of Sept. 11, 2001, "This is all wonderful news. I applaud the act. I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.") and Japan.
Japanese officials finally caught up with him and planned to extradite him to the United States until tiny Iceland came to his rescue. Why? Because few people could find Iceland on a map until Fischer came along, and the country's leaders haven't forgotten his insistence on challenging Spassky in Iceland's capital.
They don't seem to mind that Fischer, whom some say was the greatest chess player ever until Garry Kasparov came along, is probably nuts. There were reports he had all the fillings removed from his teeth because he was afraid the Russians were transmitting radio signals to his brain. Born of a Jewish mother, Fischer is virulently anti-Semitic, uttering such silliness as, "America is totally under the control of the Jews" in an interview five years ago. Fleeing Japan Thursday, he called President Bush a war criminal who "should be hung." His bizarre outbursts and hatred of America, the country that made all his success possible, are fairly inexplicable in someone with a normal mind.
On second thought, maybe Iceland should keep him. We might even pass up the chance to declare war on Iceland. Instead, we should send a fruit basket to Reykjavik as thanks and check our watches to see how long it takes Fischer to turn on yet another country that has nurtured him.
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And I am so glad that I was pinged to a non-Terri thread, that it's made my whole weekend. Thanks!
He's one hot potato.
6 months - he'll be denouncing Bjork.
Speaking of sociopaths, would they be willing to take Hitlery as well?
Fischer might be crazy, but any American who violates "United Nations sanctions" ought to have a medal pinned on him. It is disgraceful for the United States to prosecute someone for this "crime."
This guy hates America more than bin Laden, so I'm not very receptive to statements in his defense.
The clintonian embargo against Yugoslavia was a travesty. The Serbs were embargoed, but clinton let Muslim terrorists freely enter Bosnia with their weapons.
Much the way clinton let Chinese freighters carry missiles and nuclear warheads into Pakistan during the Pakistan-India standoff. Some embargo.
Sorry, Pal. Even though I did not agree with Clinton's wag the dog war against Yugoslavia, Slobo is no saint. He was cultivating a personality cult, just like Chavez of Venezuela. He loosed gangs of loyalist thugs against his opposition. Like Gorby, he is an unrepenant Commie.
Which makes the U.S. even more hypocritical than the United Nations. If he had played 1,000 chess games on a pile of corpses in Tiananmen Square, he would have come home to a throng of U.S. government officials offering to give him a Lewinsky for promoting economic ties to our "most favored nation" trading partner.
Just what we need, another Milosevic apologist.
"I find the article words "America, the country that made all his success possible" somewhat amusing. This sentiment seems to waft nostalgically from Soviet newspapers of not-so-recent past. If anything, it was Spassky's success which was made possible by his country (the state was massively supporting Soviet chess organizations and top players), not Fischer's. Had Fischer been receiving a state stipend prior to 1972? I remember reading that in his teens he turned a professional chess player, and had to live off it."
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Kasparov himself is retiring from chess and is currently writing a multi-volume history of the twentieth-century game. He wrote a good piece in OpinionJournal.com about Fischer and the way his phenomenal level of play and diva behavior shook up the soviet-dominated chess world and made in mediagenic and less musty and geekish. Not that he himself gave a damn of course. His borderline schizophrenia got the better of him after that. He has always been one notch short of loony-bin status ever since. Let Iceland have him and welcome.
Fischer may have a checkered past, but I get the feeling he's somebody's pawn in all this.
Madman Bobby is NOT a sociopath. He is a Paranoid Schizophrenic. IMHO, he can stay wherever he wants.
It is just a matter of time before he starts to bad mouth Iceland too.
I think he got in trouble for traveling on his passport once it was pulled.
Poor feller suffers a really bad dose of the Liberal Psychosis.
[Although not quite as severe as the doses suffered by, say, Kohn-Kerry, either of the Kling Tongs, Chuck-bucket Schumer, Yasser Daschle, Dean, Ted Swimmer, Sheets or Legsup Boxer. Among others]
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