Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Laff of the Day: A Blast from the Past

I've always loved this meme: we're not allowed to dislike a dislikeable leader because it emboldens "our enemies".

Listen, domestic wingnuts and foreign-born ignoramuses: it's called freedom of dissent and it's you know, a hallmark of democracy which, you know, is what the U.S. supposedly is.

I mean, terrorists are emboldened by our growing public lack of respect for Our Leaders not, say, by choosing to fight terrorism by enabling the Pakistani enablers of terrorism or by pointlessly, needlessly destabilizing Iraq so as to provide the terrorists with a far better training ground than Afghanistan.

The latest idiocy from an ignoramus-for-pay:
Sowing the seeds of anti-Americanism by discrediting the American president was one of the main tasks of the Soviet-bloc intelligence community during the years I worked at its top levels. This same strategy is at work today, but it is regarded as bad manners to point out the Soviet parallels. For communists, only the leader counted, no matter the country, friend or foe. At home, they deified their own ruler -- as to a certain extent still holds true in Russia. Abroad, they asserted that a fish starts smelling from the head, and they did everything in their power to make the head of the Free World stink.

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Lt. Gen. Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Soviet bloc. His new book, "Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination" (Ivan R. Dee) will be published in November.
What a fin source of insight into how the citizens of a democracy should behave. Now that the KGB is resurgent (albeit under a new name), maybe someone will whack him. And what's with this rank shit? Ex-KGB, whoring in the West? Isn't is inappropriate?

Link.

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