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You are clued on for sure. All the bloodshed and trillion plus spent by the USA alone and the Taliban are strong as ever. So all those men and women who have died or are injured horrifically have done it for what? Some badly thought out strategies and goals by men in suits.
Did you hear many months ago that our governments are secretly negotiating with The Taliban?
If you ask me, I think some politicians need to go out there for themselves and taste some tough reality of their stupid policies. That US Ambassador who got butchered to death by a mob in Libya was killed by the same insurgents who he backed. Ironic, but what do you expect when you trumpet Al-Qaeda sympathisers.
I mean you saw those Libyan rebels and tell me the difference to The Taliban? Apart from dress sense? :)
Do some of our politicians like William Hague in the UK forget what the war on terror was about or against whom. Morons who need their sorry butts sent over and taste bitter reality without their priviledge of protection. Then you would see a change in policy and better solutions.
And a united & educated populace is THE LAST thing any ruling class wants.
"My-O-My" to quote M, I miss the bloody cold war, you always new where you were with the USSR.
Interesting Point, your talking about the politics of fear, I do subscribe that concept exists, I believe it is standard practice for most current ruling democratic societies. The world leadership manipulates the media through policy & makes the people live in fear, look at the Daily Mail in the UK, if you believe them, many do, theirs a terrorist or Pedophile on every corner. The only way to fight back is through education & learning, never stop questioning, have an opinion, never accept anything at face value.
"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain"
Oh well, it figures though.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/13/libyan-dissident-mi6-aided-rendition
This is what gets reported, imagine what doesn't!
Takes one to know one. ;)
'The government paid the sum by way of compensation and without admitting any liability.'
Yeah just drop the bloke 2 mil out of the goodness of our hearts not that we did anything wrong of course. I would've said a 2 mil payout rather than going to trial is called 'an admission of guilt' but apparently not.
Bond of course was not popular with marxists, so they necessarily must try and twist and distort him into a "crypto-fascist."
In the meantime Bond engaged and destroyed the fascists and tyrants of his day, the good folks at Soviet Smersh, along with numerous villains with Nazi pasts such as Drax, von Hammerstein (FYEO), Horst Uhlmann (TSWLM), ranking Spectre members (TB)
Fleming's Bond was a blunt instrument in the war against fascism, marxism and other instruments of evil (gangsters, drug runners etc).
I have always empathised with the quote that is at the end of the Holocaust exhibition at the War Museum in London.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing.”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should be fooled into doing nothing.”
Indeed you did. Really showed me for a fool.
It certainly feels a long way from the cosy old naval officers' club that Bernard Lee oversaw. I guess the irony is that the end of SF suggests we're about to return to the good old days. What I still can't fathom is how intentional it was that MI6 should come across the way it did in SF - a little bit sinister and repressive.
It's possible that MI6 was always a sinister surveillance organization . . . even in the so-called "good old days" of Bernard Lee. And what? Because M is now a former military officer and a man, the "good old days" have returned? Thank you for giving me another reason to dislike "Skyfall".
Interesting, because that holds true now as much as ever. Some of us have learned how to read between the lines of what our media says and cannot really trust them for the full picture. Take the Murdoch organisation that owns Fox News. They follow the media networks agenda first and the truth if it fits that agenda.
You people should watch Russia Today which is broadcast free and their take on Syria as well as Libya will shock you. No question, the western media has down played the reality and have been to put it mildly, been economical with the truth.
The new Bond has been redesigned to take into account the contradictory nature of intelligence. They will get into bed with any unsavoury organisation if it suits our political objectives. Morality does not come into play.
In fact when the CIA set up Al-Qaeda in the late seventies, they asked the Saudis for help in radicalising the Mujahadeen and make them believe it is a holy war. Why? Because they would fight the Russians better.
The radical religiousness you see now has it's origins in that era. But our governments who depend on Saudi and Qatari investment like to keep that out of the headlines. Well, that is another reason why ratings for the mainstream media is on a down slide.
What is fascism? Or another way of putting it, how would you describe a fascist?
Take the far-right 'Skinhead'. A skinhead is usually considered, intolerant, uncultured, a person who sees things in black and white both figuratively and literally. Someone who believes in a strong state, a state that controls its people through laws and the 'norm' (peer pressure) so to speak.
New Bond is certainly less fun (as stated before) and a bit uncultured (I see a boat).
Has Bond become a blunt, bland and slightly retarded (I see a boat) agent of state.
Put it another way, would you invite New Bond to a dinner party?
I would say no.
Personally I dont think Craig's Bond is any more or any less fascist than Fleming's character. Perhaps the people AROUND Bond are but not Bond himself.
Bond himself should be cynical but fairly neutral on the political spectrum.
Id actually say the terms "blunt" and "bland" fit Bond very well. One thing that struck me after listening to the audiobook of FRWL recently was how BORING the literary Bond was compared to other characters around him.
Plus, many times during the novels, Fleming himself noted that Bond was as bad as the ones he fought. It was pointed out by the police officer at the end of TSWLM? for example.
FRWL actually says at one point that "Bond had never killed in cold blood and didn't like watching" (just after Kerim has shot Krilencu).
Pretty much all of Bonds enemies had great satisfaction in killing
Fleming described Bond as "neither a good guy or a bad guy". His enemies were unquestionably bad in my view.
Craig's Bond is about as loyal to England's cause as you can get. We see this most prominently in the last bit of QoS and in the entirety of Skyfall.
Yes, Brady, absolutely.