tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25280720.post4004865140448525274..comments2023-10-05T15:31:04.998-07:00Comments on angrysoba: Friendly Fire?angrysobahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16674288680077237267noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25280720.post-49016182494558449072010-06-08T10:55:14.144-07:002010-06-08T10:55:14.144-07:00Thanks, I got it. I though the comment “passions a...Thanks, I got it. I though the comment “passions are at their most acute when directed against an external enemy” was most interesting. Not just Animal Farm in action, but even more reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984. These society’s usually are at their most dangerous when they are on the cusp of change, and we have never had a nuclear power go through this process before. Of course here in Canada and the UK our secret services have a few Orwellian problems of their own that need dealt with. As Rhisiart Gwilym wrote in Media Lens - “Roderick Russell getting precious little help from anywhere, as the Black Dogs of Animal Farm persecute him illegally.”Roderick Russellhttp://zerzetzen.wikispaces.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25280720.post-32537755393251157462010-06-07T23:41:44.589-07:002010-06-07T23:41:44.589-07:00Sorry, that link is here.
It's a review of tw...Sorry, that link is <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1993713,00.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />It's a review of two books, one of which - the B.R Myers one - I have just received.angrysobahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16674288680077237267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25280720.post-20916974282524735022010-06-04T09:45:48.730-07:002010-06-04T09:45:48.730-07:00I couldn’t get your Time link to work. Perhaps the...I couldn’t get your Time link to work. Perhaps the last few digits of the link didn’t print on your blog? As you say “The contradictions between that and official state propaganda cannot be reconciled much longer.”; so hopefully the people will resolve matters for themselves.<br /><br />I have one obtuse long ago family link with Japan. My great aunt (an English School Teacher) went out to teach in Yokohama just in time for the great earthquake. Her previous post had been as a governess in St. Petersburg just in time for the Russian Revolution. So school teaching is not always dull; and certainly more honest than intelligence work.Roderick Russellhttp://zerzetzen.wikispaces.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25280720.post-13630072104332584652010-06-03T18:48:49.154-07:002010-06-03T18:48:49.154-07:00Well, as you know, I do live in Japan so I do take...Well, as you know, I <i>do</i> live in Japan so I do take quite an interest in the nutty neighbours.<br /><br />I don't advocate military intervention in North Korea but that doesn't mean that I think it should simply be left well alone for Kim Jong-il to treat "his people" how he wants.<br /><br />There are only so many leaks the North Korean government can plug until information from the outside world will inevitably filter in (in fact, it is finally doing so now). The contradictions between that and official state propaganda can not be reconciled much longer.<br /><br />http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1993713,00.htmlangrysobahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16674288680077237267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25280720.post-81823632000976454302010-06-03T18:38:47.472-07:002010-06-03T18:38:47.472-07:00Not at all! If I lived in Japan or South Korea I w...Not at all! If I lived in Japan or South Korea I would be concerned too. But let’s leave it to Japan and China to deal with. The problem with the Neo Con view that failed States can be turned around by using military force is that it hasn’t worked anywhere; unless one thinks that the chaos that is Afghanistan and Iraq is success.Roderick Russellhttp://zerzetzen.wikispaces.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25280720.post-32303656236059150662010-06-03T16:52:48.972-07:002010-06-03T16:52:48.972-07:00Why should the rest of us be concerned?
I'm ...<i>Why should the rest of us be concerned?<br /></i><br /><br />I'm not asking you to be. Do you mind if I am?angrysobahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16674288680077237267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25280720.post-33460491713531443842010-06-03T10:33:35.073-07:002010-06-03T10:33:35.073-07:00Angrysoba - I am not sure why you put so much emph...Angrysoba - I am not sure why you put so much emphasis on North Korea. True, it is perhaps the most vicious and nasty dictatorship on earth. But everybody knows this, so what’s new? Sure it’s important to its neighbors, but Japan and China should have taken the lead and dealt with it a long time ago. Why should the rest of us be concerned?Roderick Russellhttp://zerzetzen.wikispaces.comnoreply@blogger.com