Oh, Lileks, you complete me

[ludickid]

The Second World War, as has often been noted in this space, is the last war that everyone in America felt more or less morally comfortable about. This is why conservatives are constantly invoking it in order to tart up whatever bullshit war they want us to fight at the moment: if they say "Well, we want to knock off this third-world country in

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[drownedinink]

Reading that last bit made the image of James Lileks anxiously forcing Gnat to meditate on a photograph of Castro and Khrushchev spring to mind.

[ludickid]

"Now, honey, tell me again why Fidel is a very, very bad man, and I'll read you a bedtime story."

"DADDY I'M TIRED"

[datlowen]

>Likewise with Germany: they had a pretty democratic system pre-Hitler.

In fact, its primary weakness was that it eas too democratic.

[ludickid]

Yep. I mean, I don't think it's too much to ask Lileks to read some good histories of the Nazi Party; he claims to be a big reader. And yet he's constantly trotting out these WWII analogies that make no fucking sense whatsoever. It's insulting.

[aberranteyes]

I mean, help me out here. When did Cuba ever trouble us, except in 1980 when Castro got sick of us bugging him to release his political prisoners and said "Okay, you take them"?

I can't think of anything. And even that's only trouble if you think Monimbó was a documentary. (I wonder if Bruce Tinsley ever read that book, and if so, how he squares its portrayal of the Marielitos, as the vanguard of a Rising Brown Tide™ meant to "chill American hearts... bring America down... make America red"*, with his Mallard Fillmore portrayal of all Cuban refugees as by definition Noble Exceptions™ to the inherent vileness and vampirism of South American refugees in general? Particularly given that co-author Arnaud de Borchgrave is an editor at the Moonie Times, the paper that saved him from deserved obscurity**?)

* Actual blurb copy from the book itself

[kudaspeaks]

Without Castro allowing the Mariel boatlift, there would be no DePalma remake of "Scarface," which is the major aesthetic influence on gangster rap. Castro therefore is responsible for bling-bling videos, Fifty Cent and grills, all of which work Lilek's nerves.

I don't know, prove me wrong.

[masterninja66]

Dude, don't you remember Red Dawn? There were totally Cuban advisors for the Russian generals when they invaded the US! Cuba totally messed with us then!

[ludickid]

That's right! Invasion U.S.A., too!

[masterninja66]

See, Cuba is all up in our national face. It's only right and just that we continue opposing the oppressive regime there.