S*4-ing to '68ers
S*4 –ing the ‘68ers
WHO ARE THE ‘68ers?
Those who entered college in the year l968; the cutting edge of the baby boomer generation. Like the old CW song “Whatever happened to Randolf Scott happened to the best of me”, America can sing “Whatever happened to the Baby Boomer generation happened to our history.” They cashed it in.
In “aboutness” terms, it has been about the relationship between fathers and sons. In America the Vietnam war was WWII generation fathers calling on her sons to shed blood there. This is the upper triad: She = the mother country, America; He = the father warrior leader (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon) ; We = the ‘children’ of this national political union. Parents (led by the Father) shedding the blood of youth for forgiveness of sin; the youth themselves, progeny of blood of their own youth matured in shame after crumpling under to the Wrong Fathers, stand ready to die for approval and glory. At bottom, the contention all along has been, and is, between the Wrong Fathers and the True Sons and Daughters.
Two 68’ers stand out this week, columnist Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, detailing at great length how she got to be the way she is, as a person, quirks and all. She appreciated Betty Friedan, as who didn’t at the time, but was basically a good Catholic girl not to be carried away on the wings of radical feminism, zipless 007 hangers on, or, even less, today’s wannabe ‘50’s throwbacks with estrogen. But she hangs out with Sex In The City TV gals. Gloria Steinheim, yes. That’s enough. Her work speaks louder than anyone’s at the Times, now, except for those of Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, Bob Herbert. These have been the bulwark of True Sons and Daughters of America standing against the sludge of neconism.
Though taken under the Time’s wing, Maureen Dowd has held her own against them, and more. She emerges among the voluptuaries at the opposite end of the pole from Judith Miller. She slaps Judy right hard -- well-deserved, imho. Although it is not generally mentioned, Ms. Miller is in fact Jewish, as is I. Lewis Libby, with whom she was carrying on some kind of leaker-leakee relation, as with Ahmed Chalabi and the Curveball crowd. All neocon Bolshevikiis mongering war on Iraq. The chief bond of neocons is pro-Israeli or (what it’s government calls) pro-Zionist Mid-East U.S. foreign policy. This itself has never been openly discussed, much less brought to a vote anywhere in America. Which means that “democracy” trumpted abroad is non-existent here; and the mockery is doubled when the term is used to cover the voting process in the Knesset.
So in this one, Ms. Dowd comes out on top of Miss run-amok, make of the religious factor what one will. I return to it below.
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The second ‘68er is Paul Berman, author of a new book “POWER AND THE IDEALISTS: Or, The Passion of Joschkn Fischer and Its Aftermath”, brilliantly reviewed by Stephen Holmes (in Nation, 11.14.05, p. 25) “The tenor of Paul Berman’s new book…is suggested by the word “tragedy” in the title to this concluding chapter, “The 68’s and the Tragedy of Iraq.”” That is our connection. The thread to follow is “the evolution of the leading ‘68ers from revolutionary left-ism to liberal internationalism.” Quoting Holmes: “He traced the path by which Fischer , the young anti-bourgeois street fighter in bluejeans who flirted discreetly with lethal vandalism, came to endorse German participation in the Kosovo war. Berman’s theme was “how someone with an extremely radical New Left orientation could have ended up, in the fullness of time, a friend of NATO.”” Plus, becoming a a hunting dog with the pack of neocons, and supporter of the Iraq war on grand humanitarian grounds. The good guy’s Mr. Good Guy. Happens to be a reformed Trotskyite. But Berman studs his narrative with another star: the idealism of Bernard Koucher, a founder of Doctors Without Borders and head of the United Nations administration in Kosovo from July l999 to January 2001. For Berman “nobody in Europe was more heroic that this “fearless humanitarian doctor” who always seemed to be “on a mission of injustice.” “ Koucher saw “Iraq studded with Srebrenicas”; more genocide calling out to men of conscience to be stopped. These are the type of men from the old left you’ll find supporting the Iraq war, by God.
In the midst of his superb demolition of Berman’s major contentions, Holmes breaks out with: “Interestingly enough, Berman admits that fantasy role-playing “lies at the heart of a good deal of modern history”. It is so pervasive, it turns out (!) that Berman indulges in it, too. He poses as a modern-day Orwell, standing up to tyranny, however insufferable to the literati such a daring posture may prove to be….(Readers) should savor this colorful book for what it is: the last testament of an exotic species, the l990’s liberal hawk, by no means destined to survive the blast of Iraq.“
This is pure ice-9 on Berman’s existential handstands over the bones holocaust carcasses. I shall certainly not read his book. His number has been exposed, and, with that, the logic of the situation in re sign-use. You can read his lips without hearing the words. It’s all just a game, now. Showing what it has been all along. Maybe not for a few like Fischer and Koucher themselves, but for types like Paul Berman. What is confronted here is darkness of the deepest depths. Some locate these depths in the Bermuda triangle. Perhaps Atlantis is rising there, as Edgar Cayce predicted, with a great belch to spew them out of her belly.
What Holmes leaves unmentioned, however, is the tribal/religious factor. To comment on that I shall cut-paste a letter of unverified authenticity, guaranteed not in Berman’s book, purporting to be a Serbian Jew attacking Kouchner’s work at Kosovo.
Jews in Yugoslavia ashamed of Kouchner's acts, Tanjug, Dec 18
BELGRADE, December 17 (Tanjug) - Paula Levi, a Jew, has sent an open letter to the head of the UN Civil Mission in Kosovo and Metohija, Bernard Kouchner, in which she asks him what made him act as a very biased person and "excessively take sides with Kosovo Albanian extremists in their genocide acts."
"You know very well that it is not a revenge because the Serbs have not committed such atrocities throughout centuries. It has been best proved by the supposed Kosovo Albanian mass graves you have been searching for five months now, but much to (Bill) Clinton's regret, they are nowhere to be found and the whole world has become aware of the lack of any justification for your aggression. So, what could possibly be the reason that you, a person of the noble Jewish blood and whose parents surely experienced Hitler's expulsions, today support and even instigate the genocide against the Serbs?" Ms.Levi wonders, adding that she could not even imagine that he belonged to the honest Jewish nation.
"It is regrettable and shameful that the closest military and political aides of the American peculiar figure, Clinton, are exactly Jews: Cohen, Holbruck, Albright, Berger, Rubin, Levi, and lastly you," says Levi. According to her, the most atrocious of all is "malicious Albright", US state secretary. "She should be ashamed of her inconsiderate, demagogic, and phobic words, spreading them like a total political anarchist all over the world. Although she and her family found their safe haven in Serbia in 1939, she is responding to it now with bombs, which is extremely pathological," stresses Levi.
"Neither have the words of her honest father - that if he could have chosen his nationality, it would have been Serbian - meant anything to this infamous person, " says Levi in her open letter to Kouchner.
"We, the Jews of Yugoslavia, are ashamed of your acts and while replying to the remarks that all the Jews are with Clinton, we painfully find excuses in saying that they ceased to be Jews a long time ago. We call you all, unless it is too late as you have already deeply sunk in evil, to desist and immediately leave this atrocious Dante's inferno. It is disgraceful for an honest Jew to speak one thing and do completely the opposite," continues Levi.
"You have equally perfidiously acted within "Medicines Sans Frontiers" in Republika Srpska and Kosovo. You should be ashamed of that. This is the message sent to you by Yugoslav Jewish grannies and mothers torn by grief and enraged by you," underlines Levi in her open letter to Kouchner."
TOO Good to be true, these ‘68ers.
WHO ARE THE ‘68ers?
Those who entered college in the year l968; the cutting edge of the baby boomer generation. Like the old CW song “Whatever happened to Randolf Scott happened to the best of me”, America can sing “Whatever happened to the Baby Boomer generation happened to our history.” They cashed it in.
In “aboutness” terms, it has been about the relationship between fathers and sons. In America the Vietnam war was WWII generation fathers calling on her sons to shed blood there. This is the upper triad: She = the mother country, America; He = the father warrior leader (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon) ; We = the ‘children’ of this national political union. Parents (led by the Father) shedding the blood of youth for forgiveness of sin; the youth themselves, progeny of blood of their own youth matured in shame after crumpling under to the Wrong Fathers, stand ready to die for approval and glory. At bottom, the contention all along has been, and is, between the Wrong Fathers and the True Sons and Daughters.
Two 68’ers stand out this week, columnist Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, detailing at great length how she got to be the way she is, as a person, quirks and all. She appreciated Betty Friedan, as who didn’t at the time, but was basically a good Catholic girl not to be carried away on the wings of radical feminism, zipless 007 hangers on, or, even less, today’s wannabe ‘50’s throwbacks with estrogen. But she hangs out with Sex In The City TV gals. Gloria Steinheim, yes. That’s enough. Her work speaks louder than anyone’s at the Times, now, except for those of Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, Bob Herbert. These have been the bulwark of True Sons and Daughters of America standing against the sludge of neconism.
Though taken under the Time’s wing, Maureen Dowd has held her own against them, and more. She emerges among the voluptuaries at the opposite end of the pole from Judith Miller. She slaps Judy right hard -- well-deserved, imho. Although it is not generally mentioned, Ms. Miller is in fact Jewish, as is I. Lewis Libby, with whom she was carrying on some kind of leaker-leakee relation, as with Ahmed Chalabi and the Curveball crowd. All neocon Bolshevikiis mongering war on Iraq. The chief bond of neocons is pro-Israeli or (what it’s government calls) pro-Zionist Mid-East U.S. foreign policy. This itself has never been openly discussed, much less brought to a vote anywhere in America. Which means that “democracy” trumpted abroad is non-existent here; and the mockery is doubled when the term is used to cover the voting process in the Knesset.
So in this one, Ms. Dowd comes out on top of Miss run-amok, make of the religious factor what one will. I return to it below.
****/
The second ‘68er is Paul Berman, author of a new book “POWER AND THE IDEALISTS: Or, The Passion of Joschkn Fischer and Its Aftermath”, brilliantly reviewed by Stephen Holmes (in Nation, 11.14.05, p. 25) “The tenor of Paul Berman’s new book…is suggested by the word “tragedy” in the title to this concluding chapter, “The 68’s and the Tragedy of Iraq.”” That is our connection. The thread to follow is “the evolution of the leading ‘68ers from revolutionary left-ism to liberal internationalism.” Quoting Holmes: “He traced the path by which Fischer , the young anti-bourgeois street fighter in bluejeans who flirted discreetly with lethal vandalism, came to endorse German participation in the Kosovo war. Berman’s theme was “how someone with an extremely radical New Left orientation could have ended up, in the fullness of time, a friend of NATO.”” Plus, becoming a a hunting dog with the pack of neocons, and supporter of the Iraq war on grand humanitarian grounds. The good guy’s Mr. Good Guy. Happens to be a reformed Trotskyite. But Berman studs his narrative with another star: the idealism of Bernard Koucher, a founder of Doctors Without Borders and head of the United Nations administration in Kosovo from July l999 to January 2001. For Berman “nobody in Europe was more heroic that this “fearless humanitarian doctor” who always seemed to be “on a mission of injustice.” “ Koucher saw “Iraq studded with Srebrenicas”; more genocide calling out to men of conscience to be stopped. These are the type of men from the old left you’ll find supporting the Iraq war, by God.
In the midst of his superb demolition of Berman’s major contentions, Holmes breaks out with: “Interestingly enough, Berman admits that fantasy role-playing “lies at the heart of a good deal of modern history”. It is so pervasive, it turns out (!) that Berman indulges in it, too. He poses as a modern-day Orwell, standing up to tyranny, however insufferable to the literati such a daring posture may prove to be….(Readers) should savor this colorful book for what it is: the last testament of an exotic species, the l990’s liberal hawk, by no means destined to survive the blast of Iraq.“
This is pure ice-9 on Berman’s existential handstands over the bones holocaust carcasses. I shall certainly not read his book. His number has been exposed, and, with that, the logic of the situation in re sign-use. You can read his lips without hearing the words. It’s all just a game, now. Showing what it has been all along. Maybe not for a few like Fischer and Koucher themselves, but for types like Paul Berman. What is confronted here is darkness of the deepest depths. Some locate these depths in the Bermuda triangle. Perhaps Atlantis is rising there, as Edgar Cayce predicted, with a great belch to spew them out of her belly.
What Holmes leaves unmentioned, however, is the tribal/religious factor. To comment on that I shall cut-paste a letter of unverified authenticity, guaranteed not in Berman’s book, purporting to be a Serbian Jew attacking Kouchner’s work at Kosovo.
Jews in Yugoslavia ashamed of Kouchner's acts, Tanjug, Dec 18
BELGRADE, December 17 (Tanjug) - Paula Levi, a Jew, has sent an open letter to the head of the UN Civil Mission in Kosovo and Metohija, Bernard Kouchner, in which she asks him what made him act as a very biased person and "excessively take sides with Kosovo Albanian extremists in their genocide acts."
"You know very well that it is not a revenge because the Serbs have not committed such atrocities throughout centuries. It has been best proved by the supposed Kosovo Albanian mass graves you have been searching for five months now, but much to (Bill) Clinton's regret, they are nowhere to be found and the whole world has become aware of the lack of any justification for your aggression. So, what could possibly be the reason that you, a person of the noble Jewish blood and whose parents surely experienced Hitler's expulsions, today support and even instigate the genocide against the Serbs?" Ms.Levi wonders, adding that she could not even imagine that he belonged to the honest Jewish nation.
"It is regrettable and shameful that the closest military and political aides of the American peculiar figure, Clinton, are exactly Jews: Cohen, Holbruck, Albright, Berger, Rubin, Levi, and lastly you," says Levi. According to her, the most atrocious of all is "malicious Albright", US state secretary. "She should be ashamed of her inconsiderate, demagogic, and phobic words, spreading them like a total political anarchist all over the world. Although she and her family found their safe haven in Serbia in 1939, she is responding to it now with bombs, which is extremely pathological," stresses Levi.
"Neither have the words of her honest father - that if he could have chosen his nationality, it would have been Serbian - meant anything to this infamous person, " says Levi in her open letter to Kouchner.
"We, the Jews of Yugoslavia, are ashamed of your acts and while replying to the remarks that all the Jews are with Clinton, we painfully find excuses in saying that they ceased to be Jews a long time ago. We call you all, unless it is too late as you have already deeply sunk in evil, to desist and immediately leave this atrocious Dante's inferno. It is disgraceful for an honest Jew to speak one thing and do completely the opposite," continues Levi.
"You have equally perfidiously acted within "Medicines Sans Frontiers" in Republika Srpska and Kosovo. You should be ashamed of that. This is the message sent to you by Yugoslav Jewish grannies and mothers torn by grief and enraged by you," underlines Levi in her open letter to Kouchner."
TOO Good to be true, these ‘68ers.
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