That's not to say that Bradbury didn't steal it as well.
Posted on 03/29/2005 2:50:05 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
To paraphrase Ray Bradbury, something most ominous this way comes, and frankly I’m worried. Not since Russia tried to put missiles in Cuba have I seen an international crisis as potentially dangerous to America. World Communism has pushed a big pile of chips onto the table of the Great Game, and neither the mainstream media nor conservative commentators have caught the significance of what has happened.
However, if one views political science like a jigsaw puzzle, then when a significant piece falls into place, it is relatively easy to see the Big Picture, in this case the Baran-Wallerstein theory (B-W), which I have been warning about for some three years. To recap: Communism never gave up its goal of world conquest; however, the fat-cat “workers of the world” of the industrialized nations now have no interest in revolution. They’ve got it made. But Communism’s goal remains the same, the destruction of capitalistic America: Deemed by B-W an “Eminent Evil,” and the cause of Third World “immiseration.” Fortuitously, the means to the end of destroying America appeared in the form of Islamic jihad. Thus, Communist nations like Russia, North Korea and China are doing all they can to enable terrorists by training and surreptitious weapons supply. For example, missiles found in Libya were manufactured in North Korea, and Russia has—or promises to—provide Syria with ground-to-air missiles. As for Kerry’s so-called allies, Socialist nations like France and Germany (along with Russia and China), armed Saddam and opposed removing him by force. In effect, they were all bribed by Saddam through the U.N’s elaborate scam, Oil-for-Food.
The new piece of the Baran-Wallerstein puzzle that fell into place last week was the alliance of Syria and Iran. Syria’s premier, Assad, is of course Saddam’s Baathist cousin. I reported that just days before the Iraq invasion, convoys of trucks were detected by satellite moving into Syria from the border town of al-Qaim. Undoubtedly these were WMDs going west. [UPDATE: On 3/13/05 The N.Y.Times basically confirmed that Saddam Hussein possessed "stockpiles of monitored chemicals and materials," as well as sophisticated equipment to manufacture nuclear and biological weapons, which were removed to "a neighboring state" before the U.S. could secure the weapons sites.] Assad already had a substantial arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, but now he also has Saddam’s weapons, and will not hesitate to use them if Iran is attacked by Israel to take out Iran’s nuclear capability, just as Israel had done in Iraq. The U.S. probably would respond by attacking Syria, which would probably cause Russia to enter the war against us. After all, why would Russia give Syria ground-to-air missiles if not to attack Israeli or American planes?!
I also reported that Russian special-ops teams were in Iraq advising Saddam on defenses up to hours before the invasion. Indeed, this was confirmed when Iran awarded medals to two Russian generals for their services who, when queried, replied that they had not gone to Iraq “for a cup of coffee.” Now another ominous piece of the Big Picture fell into place this week when Putin declared, “The latest steps taken by Iran have convinced us that Iran does not intend to produce nuclear arms.” He added that Russia would continue to supply Iran with nuclear technology and weapons! And because most media people are not cognizant of the Baran-Wallerstein Big Picture, the significance of Putin’s words were utterly lost on them, and thus to the American public.
The significance of Putin’s statement as an indication of Russian policy is proof positive of B-W: The Iranian part of the “Axis-of-Evil” will not only be nuclear-enabled by Russia, but also defended. Once again, as in the Carter-North Korean nuke fiasco, an American president is being asked to trust a Communist’s word that Iran will not build nuclear weapons. I say thank God for Bush. Had Kerry been elected, he undoubtedly would have been led down that primrose path again. Moreover, a new Pentagon report cited in U.S. News & World Report (2/21/05), reveals that hundreds of American soldiers from WWII and the Korean War were imprisoned in Soviet forced-labor camps where they eventually died. In the report is testimony of a woman who “said that in the 1950s, her father was in a Siberian gulag with an American named Stanley Warner,” who in fact was a Michigan Navy reservist listed as missing in WWII.
Back in March of 2004, hosting a visit by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami President Putin reaffirmed that Russia would pursue new arms sales to Iran and complete construction of a nuclear power plant at Bushehr. Then, early last November, the Kremlin notified the United States that on December 1 Russia would withdraw from a June 1995 agreement to end arms sales to Iran. Russia had not strictly adhered to the agreement, selling an estimated $200 million in weapons to Iran between 1996 and 1999.
So, even then, the seeds were being sown to disrupt peace in the Middle-East. Putin, who met at the Kremlin with Iran's security chief Hasan Rowhani on Friday, said he would visit Iran soon, Interfax reported.
Thanks.
Serious stuff.
If they destroy America, however, where will they retire to?
RE: If they destroy America, however, where will they retire to?
Western Europe.
That's not to say that Bradbury didn't steal it as well.
What is scary is, there were planes smashing into the WTC, crashing in fields, no planes were shot down even as they attacked the Pentagon. If someone launched a first strike against us, would we respond? Or would we wait to see if the smoke cleared.
The US blew it twice in the 20th century. First, we won the war, then we allowed France to act like they had done so, making the rise of a Hitler possible. We stopped WW II too soon. We should have not allowed any other nation to have nukes. Sorry, more than twice.......
"Syria's President Assad is Saddam Hussein's Bathhist cousin"...WHAT? How is this rather VITAL fact gone missing when we were trying to figure out where Saddam might have hidden his WMDs....
Agree-wholeheartedly Bump.
I suppose you mean... Macbeth?
(I've just made an allusion so cunning that you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel!)
Global conquest has not ever been a goal of the United States and I hope we can reconvince the world that is still true. The jury is out.
Where did I mention global conquest? Was the denazification of Germany global conquest? Was the democratization of Japan global conquest? What is it about de communization in a similar manner that has always been some sort of "no go" in the minds of appeasers, utopians and other diplomacy wonks? It's a mystery to me.
Bad luck to mention the Scottish play by name. Probably because all actors identify with whatsisname's ambition...
The way the columnist -- who obviously didn't know the source -- used the line cast him in the role of a witch. The way Bradbury used it was correct.
Indeed he was. As was Patton. As was Mitchell. They never listen to the visionaries. Too impractical I suppose. Plus, for us Americans, the idea of a truly preemptive war on a grand scale is a no go. Our minds think like the Hobbits. The world needs to be about to go off a cliff before we'll do anything. Next time, it might just go off the cliff, and be in darkness for 1000 or more years.
I take it you've never seen Blackadder (in this case, Blackadder the Third: Sense and Senility)?
But, what the heck; hyperbolic rants lower the ranter's BP.
Sorry, never saw it. Don't watch much TV and don't have cable or dish or whatever.
It's that "...lean and hungry look."
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