"Shock and Awe"

[Parisle]

--- Who really needs to experience "shock & awe?" Shock & Awe was the metaphor for a sudden, overwhelming, lightning-quick subjugation of a sovreign nation's sensibilities through massive death and destruction. (The original Nazis called it "blitzkrieg.") So who really merits this sort of attention today?

--- If you're talking about saving the democratic American republic, then it ain't the Iraqis.

--- The CEO's of Halliburton, KBR, Bechtel and the Big Oil companies would be shocked if they were asked to forfeit 50% of their windfall profits from the ill-fated Iraqi venture within 48 hours,..... but they would be in awe if they thought we were actually going to put them in front of the proverbial stucco wall for non-compliance.

--- The "former" PNAC would be shocked to learn that Congress was about to rule them a criminal subversive organization,..... but they would be in awe to learn that a ten-year sentence was the best they could hope for.

--- The Bush administration has racked up enough Constitutional transgressions to choke a horse. They do not even deserve normal civilized justice. I guess that information would be a "shock" to them,.... but not really. They know what they've done. The neo-nazi neocon faction will always be with us,... that's just a percentage of human nature,..... But they will be in awe to see their leaders hanging by the neck on national television. And that is the "awe" which we need to add to their dysfunctionalism. "Fuck with the Constitution, and we will kill you."

--- I hope I have not made any untoward remarks.

[Cobalt-60]

1. I like that last part.

It seems to me that when i swore into the Navy I promised to do just that.

[OnyxCollie]

2. Shock & awe. I've been thinking about that phrase recently.

How 9/11 had been used to "shock" and "awe" the populace into compliance.

The fact of the matter is I see part of my job is to think about the unthinkable, to focus upon what, in fact, the terrorists may have in store for us, and make sure...
-Dick Cheney, Meet the Press, Sept. 10, 2006

So, Dick, what do you, er, I mean, the terrorists have in store for us? War in Iran? An attack in July? What's the next chapter of the story?

[Parisle]

3. I guess posts like this make the DU a little nervous

--- But I'm old enough to be content with having had a full and interesting life,.. at least by the relative mathematical standards attendant to personal heroes like Kerouac or Lennon,... Two months ago, I lost the love of my life to thyroid cancer,... she was 56. Sort of makes me the ideal revolutionary, eh? The "dictatorship of the rich" can count their remaining days in terms of the time it takes to reach critical mass among people who have lost everything, and who have nothing left to lose. Their "Battle of the Bulge" counter-attack against FDR's New Deal is a last ditch effort to return to some sort of feudal state, and the numbers are distinctly against them. South Africa makes a good example. But they aren't going to relent; they launched their attack with the Bush administration, and they know it's their last chance. Where populations reach into the billions and resources are getting scarce, the socialist state is the only viable means of governance,... and that is what they are kicking and screaming so vehemently to forestall,.... the loss of their beloved "Law of the Jungle." Civilized society cannot live that way.