Posted on 06/16/2008 4:26:54 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy
Winnie the Pooh, Luke Skywalker and British football hooligans could shape the foreign policy of Barack Obama if he becomes US President, according to a key adviser. Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.
Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”
He spelt out how American troops, spies and anti-terrorist officials could learn key lessons by understanding the desire of terrorists to emulate superheroes like Luke Skywalker, and the lust for violence of violent football fans.
Mr Obama’s candidacy was given an early boost by his opposition to the Iraq war and he has repeatedly said the US needs to rethink its approach to the Middle East.
Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it.”
He won’t kill me. But if you live in any major American city I’d be worried.
Now this is the kind of CHANGE I was hoping for!
ACME stock is going to shoot through the roof in the morning!
What a maroon.
shesssh.
Since when are terrorists anything like Luke Skywalker? As far as I know they hate hollywood so why would they want to be like Luke?
Just look at this excerpt from the article:
He said one terrorist told him: “We have been raised on a theory of superheroes. We all want to be like Luke Skywalker. "When we’re doing mundane things, we lose track of our ambition but when someone comes along, like Asahara, the head of the cult, and presents himself as a messiah and gives us a picture of progress that is ordained by heaven and that we are carrying out a saintly mission on earth that is for us extraordinarily evocative.” Mr Danzig added: “The parallels with al Qaeda are obvious.”
The parallels that are blindingly obvious to everybody except Danzig are the ones between what he has described as the terrorists' mindset, and the mindset of the typical Obama supporter. Obama is tapping into that mother lode of low self-esteem and despair and incompetence and malaise and nihilism that is the predictable result of years of nurturing and hard work to advance the Demo/Commie agenda. Those folks are ripe for the picking.
You can see the same effect at work in the crowd photos in Leni Riefenstahl's films - those weak-minded souls who are looking to fill the void inside with a movement that makes them feel like supermen...
While we are at it, let’s not forget to add: Neo, Morpheus and Trinity./Just Asking - seoul62..........
off topic: Why do so many lesbians have a Eeyore fetish? Why does he appeal to them?
How can anyone take this guy Obambi seriously. He is the typical henpecked husband.
Every time I see this ass-clown I get to laughing and keep saying to myself...he's got to be kidding.
The problem is...the republicans are offering McCain. THis is not the time to let him have his turn. We needed Duncan Hunter to win this thing.
This is what the terrorists are waiting for and you can bet 9/11 will look like child’s play compared to the next terrorist attack
Sheesh....This guy needs to see Bambi vs. Godzilla. Maybe he'll have a revelation.
You ain’t gonna believe this *#!+ ping.
This merely ensures that everybody in the World will have an interest in causing us as much pain as possible. Nothing could be stupider.
You can't assume that the World is static. Terrorists are not bees. They are people with their own (perverted) logic.
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