tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post111022009008534284..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: Monday ReportKing Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1110313009500310352005-03-08T12:16:00.000-08:002005-03-08T12:16:00.000-08:00Leopold,
You're Canadian so we forgive you, but th...Leopold,<br />You're Canadian so we forgive you, but that quote about speaking softly and carrying a big stick is Theodore Roosevelt's big line. He was FDR's cousin, older, and an earlier president (they also belonged to different political parties though both cousins were at least marginally progressive--reportedly they didn't care for one another much either). To be honest I don't know why Roth bothered, as it's unlikely he could top Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, another novel about a fascist takeover of America and published in 1938?, about the time Roth sets his novel in. It's up there with 1984 but not taught in American schools often because it hits a bit too close to home. <br />Cheers!<br />WredAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1110303665417306312005-03-08T09:41:00.000-08:002005-03-08T09:41:00.000-08:00A book by a highly acclaimed American novelist abo...A book by a highly acclaimed American novelist about U.S. aggression and oppression against people who differ from the U.S. rulers and much of its populace by ethnicity and religion? It must be a dramatic, blistering portrayal of the money-burning and criminal U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, which as I've noted elsewhere, "has been judged to be illegal by the head of the U.N. and legal experts across the U.S. and the globe, and has had the predicted effect of increasing the likelihood of attack against the U.S., and was based on fraud as known in advance, and meanwhile has killed over a thousand U.S. troops, and wounded or debilitated tens of thousands, and has killed upwards of 100,000 Iraqis and maimed countless others while destroying their country." It must be a novel that illuminates life today and around the world, that helps people understand it, a novel that matters now for people virtually everywhere and for the future of the globe itself.<br /><br />No surprise, it's not, and has no intention of being so, as Roth himself has pointed out.<br /><br />Haven't read Roth's novel, so don't know what he does to history, speculative or otherwise, but plenty of the historical take in the monday report is flawed, which anyone reading this can easily look up, if interested.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1110296404782877012005-03-08T07:40:00.000-08:002005-03-08T07:40:00.000-08:00You're right, Leopold. Hitler, and the Soviet Unio...You're right, Leopold. Hitler, and the Soviet Union, were the result of World War One-- undoubtedly the dumbest war in history.King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.com