http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2004/09/08/the-beginnings-of-tragedy/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:59:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2004/09/08/the-beginnings-of-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-3043 Mike Golby Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/?p=669#comment-3043 Loren, your post opens so many avenues of commentary it's overwhelming but, as it stands, it's great. The media have a great deal to answer for, as do those who slavishly swallow its simplistic tripe (I do not intend belittling the tragedy of the Breslan siege). But the greater Chechen tragedy is one of many. I started a post earlier, but do not have the time tonight to complete it. It has to do with the latest diversionary tome of self-aggrandisement pumped out by Sen. Bob Graham, "Intelligence Matters". A good man perhaps, Graham's 'revelations' are old hat and are available on the Web. We know of the 911 cover up and the Saudi connection. But there is more and people are ignoring it at their peril. That is perhaps the true value of Graham's book. He is, like O'Neill and Clarke, a finger pointing. Given the arrest of a South African in possession of a lathe for manufacturing centrifuges and 11 containers of material needed for nuclear weapons production (destined for Pakistan), we have a great deal more to fear from the United States and her allies than we do from her illusory so-called enemies. And we need to look far deeper than the events forming our present-day, media-friendly 'reality'. We are within a hair's breadth of the neocons taking the day and the world into a new holocaust. Your Republican commenter, like so many so-called progressives, just doesn't get it. Loren, your post opens so many avenues of commentary it’s overwhelming but, as it stands, it’s great. The media have a great deal to answer for, as do those who slavishly swallow its simplistic tripe (I do not intend belittling the tragedy of the Breslan siege). But the greater Chechen tragedy is one of many. I started a post earlier, but do not have the time tonight to complete it. It has to do with the latest diversionary tome of self-aggrandisement pumped out by Sen. Bob Graham, “Intelligence Matters”. A good man perhaps, Graham’s ‘revelations’ are old hat and are available on the Web. We know of the 911 cover up and the Saudi connection. But there is more and people are ignoring it at their peril. That is perhaps the true value of Graham’s book. He is, like O’Neill and Clarke, a finger pointing. Given the arrest of a South African in possession of a lathe for manufacturing centrifuges and 11 containers of material needed for nuclear weapons production (destined for Pakistan), we have a great deal more to fear from the United States and her allies than we do from her illusory so-called enemies. And we need to look far deeper than the events forming our present-day, media-friendly ‘reality’. We are within a hair’s breadth of the neocons taking the day and the world into a new holocaust. Your Republican commenter, like so many so-called progressives, just doesn’t get it.

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