The USA has a plan, and it was executed flawlessly:
* Destroy Iraq and Afghanistan
* Take away all the rights of US citizens via the PATRIOT act
* Make billions of dollars for Haliburton, Blackwater, and Xi
* Make hundreds of billions of dollars selling arms to all sides
* Destroy liberal democracy in the middle-east
Americans rebuilt Germany and Japan because there was profit in it, period. America destroys the middle east because there's profit in it, and because we have some weird evangelical fetish for Israel, and hope to bring on the apocalypse.
The mistake of the western world is allowing billionaires to run the country.
Never forget that 9/11 was perpetrated by family friends of George Bush. Saudis killed 3,000 people and our response was to destroy Iraq, Afghanistan, and Suriya.
Downvoted for not having amerikkkan hatred for Iran & Venezuela. My facts are indisputable. OPEC, Russia & 'murrica use war and famine to keep oil prices high. Prove me wrong.
OPEC and the United States keep fossil fuels artificially inflated through constant wars and their barbaric sanctions against Iran & Venezuela. How much would a barrel of oil cost if they were allowed to sell on the free market?
After Cheney's scaling event, I mean Bush's invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, San Francisco protested hard. A lot of their techniques were innovative and new, and the organization was stunning. Occupy was even better tactically and strategically.
None of them compared to the freedom fighters in Hong Kong. They do the things that Americans are too cowardly to imagine, like shutting down airports and transit.
Have you seen the way they extinguish tear gas canisters with traffic cones? With some guns, some tanks, some international support, and the right leader, Hong Kong could win their independence from the monsters who run China.
The story line was really fascinating, especially the conflict and eventual merger with "The Whores".. However, when he wrote the last two books, beginning with the beautiful introductional ode to Herbert's deceased wife, .. it's clear his heart wasn't in it, and he was ready for the end (of either writing, or his days on the earth).
Interesting words left out of his analysis that I caught in a recent re-read.
* Zurna: A Turkish clay Clarinet of sorts, somewhat of a grandchild of a similar Egyptian instrument.
* Tabla: Egyptian word for drum (also Hindi, I'm not sure which one came first). Called Derbakki by Kurds/Druze/Syrians, Dumbek and Darbuka in Turkish, and Tarabukka by the Slavs.
Spice orgy. Not an Arabic term, but rather it seems to be a reference to an early Sufism ritual where Hashish would be taken before and during a week-long Sema (think non-stop whirling dervishes). Theoretically they were not sexual, but rather considered to be an "orgy of spirituality" brought on by long-term extortion of the senses (try spinning for 30 seconds .. imagine doing it for 24 hours).
In the later books, perhaps the ones by Brian Herbert, they discover a planet of Jews, mostly unchanged for 15,000 years, except they have created some self-fashioned bene gesseret-like women.
* Destroy Iraq and Afghanistan * Take away all the rights of US citizens via the PATRIOT act * Make billions of dollars for Haliburton, Blackwater, and Xi * Make hundreds of billions of dollars selling arms to all sides * Destroy liberal democracy in the middle-east
Americans rebuilt Germany and Japan because there was profit in it, period. America destroys the middle east because there's profit in it, and because we have some weird evangelical fetish for Israel, and hope to bring on the apocalypse.
The mistake of the western world is allowing billionaires to run the country.
Never forget that 9/11 was perpetrated by family friends of George Bush. Saudis killed 3,000 people and our response was to destroy Iraq, Afghanistan, and Suriya.
Mission accomplished.