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Steph and I checked out "Why We Fight" at the Charles on Saturday morning. Its a BBC-produced documentary about the drivers behind American warfare over the last half century. What follows is a pretty damming depiction of the seemingly permanent fusion of the military-industrial complex onto American life; think of it as a less cutesy, more scholarly, more unsettling Farenheit 9/11, with everyone from John McCain to Richard Perle (who looks so much like Darth Sidious that he genuinely scares the shit out of me) weighing in. Through a recap of our involvement in the Middle East, from our housing and reinstalling the Shah of Iran in the mid-50s to our befriending Saddam in the 80s to our present-day hijinks, the current war takes on it's proper context - This isn't a one-off conquest or some twisted form of revenge or anything to do with terrorism, it's the first step in the outright quest for world domination that the neocons have been calling for for over twenty years, and what all our foreign policy has been building towards since WWII. The reason Bush won't retreat in any way from Iraq is because to do so doesn't signal a bloody end of a war we shouldn't have been in the first place - it will be the Waterloo of the American Empire that his people are trying to build. To them, this wouldn't be failure with a small "f" this would be FAILURE on a massive fucking scale, and they'll be damned if something so inconsequential as national popular opinion will have anything to do with that! Check it out if you can...it's great.
The propect of playing in front of nearly 500 people in two days time is scaring me practically shitless right about now. I might have to take up smoking.
The propect of playing in front of nearly 500 people in two days time is scaring me practically shitless right about now. I might have to take up smoking.