The English-Speaking Alliance
I ran across this article detailing a recent gaggle of "Historians" at the WH, including Andrew Roberts. Lest we forget to acknowledge the real principalities and powers behind the veil of reality, Roberts reminds us that unlike Churchill Bush still has God on his side and His truth is still marching on.
Roberts's money adivce to the Prez, in keeping with his new book A History of English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900:
Lesson four: Cling to the alliance of the English-speaking peoples. Although many nations have joined the coalition in Iraq and Afghanistan, troops from Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are doing the heavy lifting.
He also advises that we "not set a deadline for withdrawal" from Iraq.
Hmmm. I wonder how this alliance of English-speaking peoples is doing in Iraq these days in light of the fact that we should not set a deadline for withdrawal? While Canada and New Zealand aren't doing any lifting in Iraq, there's always our greatest ally Britain. Yes, yes, we can count on Britain staying in Iraq for us. And then there's Australia. Yes, we can be sure that all of Australia's 550 troops are there for us in the long run too.
I don't know about you, but this gets me all choked up,
this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world...
posted by Paul @ 1:15 PM
3 Comments:
The English-speaking peoples? If that's the coalition, where the hell is the Indian Army? My guess is that there are a hell of a lot more English speakers in India than in the ANZAC countries.
Paul, hilarious post. With soundtrack, no less!
One can only hope that there will be one long term beneficial side effect of this awful war: the discrediting of this new breed of imperial historian with its kooky fondness for the British empire and the white man's burden.
The really scary thing is how much of a bubble-boy Bush is. He consistently surrounds himself with sychopphants whose "expert" opinions are not shared by the vast majority of other experts in any given field, be it history, law, global warming... Particularly scary right now because he's surrounded himself with a bunch of idiots who keep whispering in his ear that his legacy will be decided on whether or not he allows the ME to become "nucyularized". We know what that's code for.
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