msbpodcast says:

That nation isn’t a nation, nor are most nations who didn’t draw up their own boundaries.*

Its a pile of tribes who hate each other’s guts and would have nothing to do with each other except that the European overlords who divided the continent up did it in the way they did because it would put them at odds with other.

Instead of divide and conquer its unite and conquer using the old standby distraction of getting the populace to kill each other.

Dead people don’t object to anything you do. They’re fucking dead.

Like Ambrose Bierce wrote in the Devil’s Dictionary:

ABORIGINIES, n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

*) After the first world war, while the British and the French held sway, the league of nations was set up to calcify what the British had done to most of the planet.

Where borders ran east to west, they declared nations to be running north to south across tribal boundaries insuring millennia of conflict.

The French love ocean front property but suck at taking care of anything deeper that you can reach by cannon shot from a ship so they created Lebanon by carving it from Syria. That also explains why Vietnam is a sliver off of Indochina while Laos is left behind.

The Brits meanwhile had the empire and saw that by uniting the stans and the subcontinent, they would really fuck with the Raj which were areas were the myriad kingdoms who were a war with each other before would stay at war but be too weak to topple an imposed government.**

They tried to do the same with China, as did the Japanese in Manchuria, but the Chinese had been far more civilized than the British realized and managed not to fall prey because they had a different ideogrammatic writing system and could communicate quite effectively across syllabic barriers.

It is much harder to learn but once learned the Chinese empire is able to withstand far more diversity than the West. (The problem that the Chinese encountered from the 15th century until the rise of Mao Zedong was that the political and economic system had stratified along the same lines that the ‘States is currently doing and become a “water kingdom.)

**) The Brits are old hands at setting up conflicts like this. They tried to do it with the French in North America during the sixteenth century by transporting thousands of francophones to the swamps of Louisiana. They didn’t ship enough of them to try to insure that the resulting colonies would be divided horizontally while they divided the territory vertically. (Frankly, they didn’t know how fucking big the Americas were,

t0llyb0ng says:

A half-hour interview with John Villasenor re Amerika’s new drone mania.  NPR, Dave Davies, Fresh Air.  From today.

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/12/148293470/drones-over-america-what-can-they-see

Publius says:

Why are the terrorism words “orchestrated” and “attacks” being used by the state’s AG for copyright bills like SOPA and PIPA?

And why is the Utah State’s AG mixing up what he said is his concern for “millions of young struggling artists” with terrorism?

In the end clip, the AG erroneously addressed Dodd as “Senator.” Dodd is NOT a Senator, Dodd is CEO of is one of the primary companies affected by the pending legislation.

Was it an innocent slip of the mind by the AG? Why would the state’s AG call a lobbyist “Senator?” Do the foxes truly run the hen-house now?