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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
From lily pads to aircraft carriers, advanced drones to special operations teams, it’s offshore and into the shadows for U.S. military policy. While the United States is economically in decline, it remains the sole military superpower on the planet. No other country pours anywhere near as much money into its military and its national security establishment or is likely to do so in the foreseeable future. It’s clear enough that Washington is hoping to offset any economic decline with newly reconfigured military might. As in the old TV show, the U.S. has gun, will travel. Onshore, American power in the twenty-first century proved a disaster. Offshore, with Washington in control of the global seas and skies, with its ability to kick down the world’s doors and strike just about anywhere without a by-your-leave or thank-you-ma’am, it hopes for better. As the early attempts to put this program into operation from Pakistan to Yemen have indicated, however, be careful what you wish for: it sometimes comes home to bite you.
Offshore Everywhere: How Drones, Special Operations Forces, and the U.S. Navy Plan to End National Sovereignty As We Know It (via azspot
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How is anyone supposed to go up against this?
The three B’s
Beer
Baby
Bed
1939
London.
(via caro-jon-son and dreams like that)
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Marianne: What are you doing?
Ferdinard: [looking at the mirror] Looking at myself. Marianne: And what do you see? Ferdinard: The face of a man who’s driving towards a cliff at 100 km/h. Marianne: [turns the mirror towards herself] I see a woman who is in love with the man who’s driving towards a cliff at 100 km/h. Ferdinard: So let’s kiss.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh1muoIC1y1qzspj4o1_500.jpg)
Marianne: What are you doing?
Ferdinard: [looking at the mirror] Looking at myself.
Marianne: And what do you see?
Ferdinard: The face of a man who’s driving towards a cliff at 100 km/h.
Marianne: [turns the mirror towards herself] I see a woman who is in love with the man who’s driving towards a cliff at 100 km/h.
Ferdinard: So let’s kiss.
A similar era?
Posted by my favorite politically oriented tumblr:
Turning back for a moment to the present day, the Republicans in the last four years have treated Barack Obama in the same way their ancestors treated Andrew Johnson—and, I would suggest, for the same two reasons. First, they see him as attempting to maintain an old order which they detest—the remnants of the New Deal and the Great Society. They prefer, of course, to argue that he is trying to impose a new order, socialism, but I suspect that in their hearts they know the truth. There is some truth in this, just as Andrew Johnson and the defeated white Southerners and their Northern Democratic allies meant to restore the supremacy both of the white race and the Democratic Party. But secondly, neither set of Republicans viewed, or views, the President as legitimate. Johnson they regarded as an apostate; Obama they regard as unfit, for various reasons, to sit in the White House. Having opposed everything he did for two years, and having been rewarded with control of the House of Representatives, they are now obstructing him at every turn, and doing their best, too, to deny the Presidential appointing power by refusing to confirm his nominees, regardless of their impact upon the ability of the federal government even to
(Source: azspot)
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