Comments on: Musharraf Bucks Bush, but the Cowboy Still Rides High at Home http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/musharraf-bucks-bush-but-the-cowboy-still-rides-high-at-home/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:09:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Gary Corseri http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/musharraf-bucks-bush-but-the-cowboy-still-rides-high-at-home/#comment-8899 Gary Corseri Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:41:53 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/musharraf-bucks-bush-but-the-cowboy-still-rides-high-at-home/#comment-8899 In addition to the rich content and context, I thought it especially interesting stylistically--the way Leupp "entered" the minds of Bush and Musharraf to reveal the simplicities and contradictions in Bush's mind and the fairly layered thinking of Musharraf. It has been clear to most of us who abandoned the mainstream media for the progressive web some time back that the U.S. neocon leadership has given up on democracy in favor of the "unitary executive" (which would be called dictatorship anywhere else!). But how did we come to have such muddled dictatorship? Mirabile dictu! If we are going to play the game of "Great Powers"--what Brzezinski and others call the Great Chessboard of moves and countermoves on the Eurasian landmass--we might at least recall that the game as played by our imperialist predecessors and partners has delievered our world to its present state of moral morass, intellectual and cultural decadence, and Armageddonist despair. If shrewdness in the service of immorality has yielded such rotten fruit, what monstrosities must muddledness sire? Leup asks the right questions, provides helpful background, and delivers all in a finely punctuated style. In addition to the rich content and context, I thought it especially interesting stylistically–the way Leupp “entered” the minds of Bush and Musharraf to reveal the simplicities and contradictions in Bush’s mind and the fairly layered thinking of Musharraf.

It has been clear to most of us who abandoned the mainstream media for the progressive web some time back that the U.S. neocon leadership has given up on democracy in favor of the “unitary executive” (which would be called dictatorship anywhere else!). But how did we come to have such muddled dictatorship? Mirabile dictu!

If we are going to play the game of “Great Powers”–what Brzezinski and others call the Great Chessboard of moves and countermoves on the Eurasian landmass–we might at least recall that the game as played by our imperialist predecessors and partners has delievered our world to
its present state of moral morass, intellectual and cultural decadence, and Armageddonist despair. If shrewdness in the service of immorality has yielded such rotten fruit, what monstrosities must muddledness sire?

Leup asks the right questions, provides helpful background, and delivers all in a finely punctuated style.

]]> By: section9 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/musharraf-bucks-bush-but-the-cowboy-still-rides-high-at-home/#comment-8886 section9 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:53:49 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/musharraf-bucks-bush-but-the-cowboy-still-rides-high-at-home/#comment-8886 Well, since the U.S. Army and Marine Corps has struck an alliance with the tribals in Anbar, Diyala, and in Baghdad proper, Al Qaeda in Iraq has been basically run to ground and annihilated. This has allowed Maliki to make his own arrangements with the Iranians from a stronger position. There are none so bound as those who approach politics from the straitjacket of ideology. Well, since the U.S. Army and Marine Corps has struck an alliance with the tribals in Anbar, Diyala, and in Baghdad proper, Al Qaeda in Iraq has been basically run to ground and annihilated. This has allowed Maliki to make his own arrangements with the Iranians from a stronger position.

There are none so bound as those who approach politics from the straitjacket of ideology.

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