Yes, it looks like Gerson is a pretty typical “invade-the-world invite-the-world” neocon. Not much to add, except that I had to sneer at his lumping in LaRouche with Paul and Tancredo. As a “former” Trotskyite, LaRouche is incomparably closer to Gerson’s people than to Paul and Tancredo.

When you’re in the business of destroying people’s lives, there will always be an element of risk. If you remove all hope for the future from the wrong man, and he happens to be intelligent, it’s impossible to predict what the outcome might be.

I’ll state here that I don’t advocate suicide bombing with planes before I note the following: The statists at Fox, and particularly the intellectual lightweight Beck, misinterpreted the inclusion of the communist and ‘capitalists’ creed in the pilot’s rant. Those were included in protest of them, not in favor of them. It was crony capitalism and communism that he believed stacked the deck against him. I don’t know how anything could be clearer, after reading what preceded it.

Michael Gerson A Primer on Political Reality

you will get the raving idiocies of Dubya’s “Axis of Evil” Speechwriter.

Interesting thing is – one guy writes this complete “mainstream” paranoia and advocates invading / “liberating” countries which result in hundreds of thousands dead, political destabilization, trillions of dollars wasted, and millions uprooted from their homes. He is considered “mainstream” and “normal”.

The other guy, Stack, is upset at the stress and bull…. of a world where his savings gets poofed, his jobs disappear, and there is corrupt bailouts. That opinion is considered “extreme” and “lunatic”. Admittedly, flying into the building was off-scale.

{Gotterdammerung from Wiki and Wagner: “Any cataclysmic downfall or momentous, apocalyptic event “}

[I can’t access any of Myron’s links. It’s not the first time. Please try and capture hyperlinks accurately so that they can be opened.]

Unfortunately, it appears to be “dead” (or more likely, it’s been moved). Which bootlicker wrote this diatribe?

Here’s Bush’s “conservative” speechwriter’s counterrant:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/…/AR2010021803414.html

” .. the worst elements of the Tea Party movement — birthers and Birchers, militias and nativists, racists and conspiracy theorists, acolytes of Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo and Lyndon LaRouche. But the birthers and Birchers, militias and nativists, racists and conspiracy theorists do exist.. They watch Glenn Beck rail against the omnipresent threat of Saul Alinsky, read Ayn Rand’s elevation of egotism and contempt for the weak, listen to Ron Paul attacking the Federal Reserve cabal, and suddenly their resentments become .. psychedelic departures from reality. Eventually, these theories require repudiation .. what William F. Buckley did in the 1950s and ’60s, repudiating Rand and Robert Welch of the John Birch Society, thereby creating a legitimate conservatism .. Those who take the revolutionary metaphor too literally are not engaged in politics, they are engaged in sedition .. The Federal Reserve, by the way, just helped to prevent a depression by increasing the money supply. It deserves a little thanks. Immigrants .. are a source of values and vitality. And .. a source of future Republican votes”

Mea culpa, Robert. No attack was intended. I believe that Solzhenitsyn’s point is important. And I don’t believe “every government employee is my enemy”–only those that enable tyrannical behavior.

Frank