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A few days after I mused here about the new war for which the neocons and corporate media have formed their very own Occupy-style drum circle I had this idea, but I felt it would sound too silly to trouble you with before giving careful consideration to my choice of wording. Welp, as seen on Balloon Juice, it looks like someone has described the prospective conspiracy that corporate media would be expected to denounce as... "a conspiracy theory":Here’s a prediction. Netanyahu, in league and concert with Romney, Santorum and Gingrich, will make his move to get rid of Obama soon. And he will be more lethal to this president than any of his domestic foes.See, I think there are certain ideas that may be too dangerous for a nobody like me to fluff up on my crummy blog, but Andrew Sullivan evidently thinks his high profile as a celebrity blogger will protect him from right-wing opprobrium. We'll see about that.
You may remember back in January when the publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times had to "step down" for suggesting that maybe "Israel's most inner circles" might "order a hit" on Barack Obama in order to rid themselves of an unfriendly US president. So here's another approach that might amount to a fatal political hit if the "product" were rolled out as an October Surprise.
I don't think this idea is too insane to have been dreamed of, kicked around all hush-hush-like, or even to have arrived at some stage of planning. Because the marketplace of ideas is oversupplied with insanity. I'm sure the very idea quickens the pulse of many. And who knows: maybe certain people with the right connections and levers think they could get away with such a thing. But if that's the case, they are making one of the classic strategic blunders: underestimating the adversary.
As it happens, every President of the United States has his own "most inner circle," not to mention a heavy metal national security apparatus and---thanks to Richard Bruce Cheney and The Boy Who Would Be President---a carload of extra-constitutional surveillance and law-enforcement powers. And this one knows how to play 10-dimensional chess, so watch out.
Update: I forgot to state that any such conspiracy would not involve nobodies like Santorum, Gingrich, or Romney. But I do think it's fully plausible that it could involve Americans. I don't think there is any shortage of latent traitors on the far right.
Andrew Sullivan said that? What a cretin. No country, not even Israel, would be stupid enough to do anything in concert with Santorum, Romney and Gingrich. Now, if they're talking to the Bush machine, well, maybe...
ReplyDeleteSee my update; an oversight. But I still think you are attributing unwarranted supervillain status to the remaining thicket of shrubs.
ReplyDeleteI'd suggest checking into what's become known as the Franklin Credit Union scandal. There's a book on Amazon about it and lots of other stuff now hidden by the msm. The Bush family (machine) is far deeper, scarier, and more powerful than the comedic stylings of their retarded oldest son implied. New World Order indeed.
ReplyDeleteImages of November 1963. I can't believe the American Right are so insane. Tell me they're not.
ReplyDeleteMy only consolation is that if they got hold of the reins of power they'd be too stupid or dogmatic to do anything other than screw up the economy. Oh maybe blast Iran to hell!
saab: sorry, but you haven't convinced me. The Bush family has no machine. Some family members been near the center of a reactionary oligarchy since the 1930s, but it doesn't center around them. People thought the same thing about the Rockefellers for 100 years, but they probably aren't running any global cabals these days. And where are the Bush family "young lions"?
ReplyDeleteMarginalia: I agree that the power of tyrants and oligarchs fades as each successive generation becomes unaccustomed to handling challenges to their power. Barbarism (whether military or cultural) can only accomplish so much without competence. Pay attention to how they howl when people say mean things about them in newspapers or on the internet.