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Re: !!! (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear tlimjoco: I fear, as I suggest in my essay, that generations who whiled away their free time drinking beer in front of TV sets, watching musclebound guys with B.A.'s in Sports Studies, have developed an attitude toward the World that it is a game. America is the A-Team, we are the fans, the Countries of the World are the bums of the League, the coach is infallible as long as our team wins, and of course, we are feeling no pain.
Unfortunately, our only chance of avoiding a true catastrophe from this view of reality, is if the good Service families of the U.S., the loyal fathers and mothers of Marines, Special Forces, the Airborne, and the Reserves, rebel against the callous sacrifice of their [our] children. When the President reluctantly asks the Congress for a new Draft Law to further take on the growing number of oro mundadaos that you note, we shall put down our Buds and begin to pay some real attention.
We shall stop the geopolitical madmen who have taken over the Nation.
If we do not realize that we must share our wealth, at the expense of our material standard of living, we are all going to learn what Hell is.
In the meanwhile, we shall go on living our paranoid waking-dreams.
Thank you, tjlimjoco, for the comment and the kudo.
[Macresarf1]
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Oct 07 '03
12:01 pm PDT
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Re: I see why you referred me here. (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Thanks, Brian. Actually, I had begun the review just before 9-1-1, but the event prevented me from going on for a few days. And ever piece of news that came up, especially as I saw how Washington was going to commit us, had me shouting: No, No!
All these things should have been treated as a Worldwide police action. Everyone would have cooperated, and we would have been admired. Instead, the Whitehouse organized a lynch mob, and began to shoot up the citizenry of outlying towns.
We may end up with the empire Mr. Pearl hoped for as far back as 1991, but we shall bitterly hated as a nation, and too often, and unnecessarily, as individuals.
I am doing a review now which fits into the OUR LADY OF THE ASSASSINS pattern, and I'll try to put in the hyperlinks for a group of five on my Profile Page.
Thank you again for the praise, Brian, and adding me to your WOT
[Macresarf1]
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Mar 30 '03
11:28 am PST
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I see why you referred me here. (Reply to this comment)
by voxpoptart
If anything, i'm surprised you aren't linking prominently to this piece from your homepage right about now. I assume you put an immense amount of time into it: juggling the demands of relating a serious movie with sensitivity, and giving decades of factual background to the movie, _and_ responding to the deadliest attack to American soil, _and_ tying this into the past millenium's history of warfare and sports, is an insane demand to put on yourself in writing a piece. That you actually carry it off is just extraordinary. Pity i already added you to my Web of Trust, or else i'd add you with a fluorish right now.
-Brian
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Mar 29 '03
5:28 pm PST
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Re: Re: Re: first reference (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear Stephen: Now I get your reference! Perhaps Callas was only an accelerating irritant.
I greet you, in reply to your latest comment, on Superbowl Sunday, when tens of millions of comfortable American (mostly) males -- as I suggested in this review -- will watch "virtual war" while their pleasure may or may not be interrupted by reports of developments in our actual "war" against Iraq, now scheduled on, or before, the the first week in March. That invasion will be carried out in our name by elite troops, and we watch its swift, brutal execution during Basketball re-runs in the lull before the beginning of Baseball Spring Training.
If all goes well, the retaliatory response will not come from Saddam Hussein, but later, from thousands of additional Oro Mundados, who will be prompted by their powerlessness as peoples to perform desperate, individual, suicidal acts throughout Europe and America.
Four billion of the "powerless" against two billion who will now "have the power" (oil) in the Middle East and Central Asia -- which America will be forced to divide with Britain and whoever else joins the "Coalition of the Willing."
It will be interesting and terrible to see who wins -- "Good Television" -- but I'm sure we shall begin to decry the ratings. It will be "Reality TV" brought home with a will to many Americans and Europeans.
Now, if all DOES NOT GO WELL . . .
The Bush Administration, as you may know, has long ago laid out The Plan in what, at the time it first appeared, was a little noted document written by "The (Idealogical) Backroom Boys" of the old Reagan-Bush think tank. The original document, running to 90 pages, has been revised several times.
An excellent analysis by Jean-Yves Haine and Gustave Lindstrom appears at the following URL:
http://www.iss-eu.org/new/analysis/analy034.html
Thank you, Stephen for your acknowledgment and fresh update to the events occurring since I wrote this review originally, in September 2001.
If you really want prescience, read my review of MOBY DICK (the TV mini-series).
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2F6C-173B6D0C-3A14A29E-prod2
I really wish I had been wrong about all of this. The majority of Americans don't realize what they have gotten themselves into.
Later.
[Macresarf1]
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Jan 26 '03
2:09 pm PST
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Re: Re: first reference (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray,  in Movies
was to who was on tv when Alexis shoots it .
And Colombia is the country.
More than a year later, there is not a single indictment of any accessory who was not already in custody on 9/11/01, Kissinger returned to even greater prominence (but had to retreat rather than reveal how much money he is taking from Saudis et al.), al-Quaeda is reportedly operating training camps inside Afghanistan (while US forced protect the president in Kabul), and #41 is intent on finishing the job #37 left unfinished whether or not there is evidence of building "weapons of mass destruction"... while Pakistan, beloved ally in the war on terrorism (where Osama probably is) has been aiding North Korea develop nuclear weaponjs... Which is to say you were plenty prescient riffing on the dark vision of Medellin.
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Jan 25 '03
9:30 am PST
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Re: misc. (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Dear Steven: I didn't quite get your first reference, but you are quite right, as usual, about the second; it was Elliot Abrams. Just yesterday I read an excellent piece in The New York Review of Books, which pointed out that both Elliot Abrams, Negroponte, and several others are back in favor.
The old gang of cowboys are back in the saddle.
We are definitely in for another crazy ride. Virtual Wars have replaced real wars, but we are going to feel this one terribly, one way or another.
Some fifteen years ago, I used to live in an out of the way town on the Penninsula. I became acquainted with a man who represented a "seed company" out of the Middlewest (Southern Indiana). He slept all day and worked all night. On several occasions, he introduced me to some of his "buyers" and "agents" back from Central America. He used to like to bring them to me because, at the time, I had a very good wine cellar. One night after a particularly nice roast lamb and a bottle of gorgeous Ridge Petite Sirah, I asked my latest guest, just back from Nicaragua, what he had done down there. He turned to me with among the coldest eyes I've ever seen, and spat: "What do you think? Doesn't Jim tell you these things? Frankly, Al, I killed a lot of people!"
Then, there were guys, newly "home," who liked to walk into bars, throw a couple of hundred dollars in mixed currency on the wood, and buy 50 people a round.
I really do pray we win "The War on Terrorism" quickly because it will be much more destrucive to us than it is to the terrorists, in the long run.
Regards.
[Macresarf1
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Oct 12 '01
4:57 pm PDT
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misc. (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
Alexsis shoots the Colombian president on tv, not La Callas.
I think the goon whose name has escaped you is Elliot Abrams (tho the main enabler of the "freedom fighters" who specialized in bombing schools and hospitals, the "contras, Negroponte is US ambassador to the UN).
I remember LBJ declaring a war on poverty, Nixon a war on cancer, Reagan a war on drugs, and now W's war on terrorism. A lot of unwon wars for a country that purportedly has never lost a war...
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Oct 10 '01
10:23 pm PDT
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