Bill: Thanks especially for the speech back in 2010 by Chris Hedges - The Death of the Liberal Class. At your recommendation I have just nearly finished a reading of his book - so to hear him speak to it was like a refresh/revising right on top of the reading. How powerfully incisive and without fear or favour is his understanding. I loved especially his statement about those attracted to power being of two kinds - the mediocre (and back then represented by Obama - and I admit to being hoodwinked by his two books) or the venal - represented by Bush Jr. In 2016 I recall visited the Bush Jr Presidential Library in Dallas - shocked to find no books! How naïve was I not to understand that a Presidential Library was not necessarily a library! Rather inanities such as The Bush Doctrine framed and hanging upon the wall as if a profound truth with four parts! Thanks again..
The Bush Doctrine (as on a wall in the Dubya Pres. Library:
1. Take the Fight to the Enemy;
2. Make no Distinction Between Terrorists and the Nations that Harbor Them;
3. Confront Threats Before They Fully Emerge;
4. Advance Freedom.
I think its clear that Netanyahu is following the Bush Doctrine with all its nonsense and ironies!
Bill: Thanks especially for the speech back in 2010 by Chris Hedges - The Death of the Liberal Class. At your recommendation I have just nearly finished a reading of his book - so to hear him speak to it was like a refresh/revising right on top of the reading. How powerfully incisive and without fear or favour is his understanding. I loved especially his statement about those attracted to power being of two kinds - the mediocre (and back then represented by Obama - and I admit to being hoodwinked by his two books) or the venal - represented by Bush Jr. In 2016 I recall visited the Bush Jr Presidential Library in Dallas - shocked to find no books! How naïve was I not to understand that a Presidential Library was not necessarily a library! Rather inanities such as The Bush Doctrine framed and hanging upon the wall as if a profound truth with four parts! Thanks again..
The Bush Doctrine (as on a wall in the Dubya Pres. Library:
1. Take the Fight to the Enemy;
2. Make no Distinction Between Terrorists and the Nations that Harbor Them;
3. Confront Threats Before They Fully Emerge;
4. Advance Freedom.
I think its clear that Netanyahu is following the Bush Doctrine with all its nonsense and ironies!
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