John Stone wrote:
On 8/22/07 6:01 AM, in article , "Patrick
Turner" wrote:
I found the folk music of the 60s to be far more entrancing than the
silly muck of the mainstream pop.
AFAIWC, anyone singing something better sing something meaningful,
original, and intelligent, or shut up. I quite enjoyed Dylan.
Dylan got tired of the "folk" scene rather quickly. Did you freak out when
he went "electric"?
He just gave us a message, then moved to entertainment.
His Masters of War resonated with me at the time.
When Dylan was protesting, 1/2 Oz were against the Vietnam war, and 1/2
wondered
why the west didn't just nuke Hanoi, and be done with it.
Robert McNamara later said oh what a stoopid thing that war all was.
But my 1/2 of the people already knew before it started in earnest.
We all remember the lies and BS that our Govt spewed out to us.
Oh, and in Vietanm, there were no weapons of mass destruction,
but there were a lot of angry ants in black pyjamas who didn't like our
interference.
We were told we had to got to Vietnam to stop the yellow peril movin
south.
What absolute **** twitery!
1/2 the people now wanna nuke Iraq and Iran while they are at it.
But they won't, I don't think, ever, because there is too much oil
sloshing about.
But there hasn't been much of a protest over Iraq because not enough
bodies have arrived back in Oz or the US.
And when the US are forced to get out of Iraq,
and while complaining that the local Iraqi Govt was dysfunctional,
perhaps a little bit more good old fashioned bloodletting will
happen, as it has over the last 10,000 years,
and it will all sort itself out.
Eventually, maybe the oil will be sold in the usual way and without
having to steal a whole country, and as usual a few will get
stoinkingly rich while most Iraquis live on in abject povety.
As usual, in 30 years 1/2 the ppl will say the US could have won in
Iraq,
and if only Congress had allowed enough troops, and been allowed to
simply shoot all male
Iraqis, until an unconditioal surrender was begged for by the last six
guys left.
And they'll say what a shame people voted
the Repubs down, and how they should have spent a couple
of trillion bucks more on the war.
Yeah, sure.
Its human nature to muddle through things, and for populations to be
divided on issues.
Anyway, expect your gas prices to rise....
Patrick Turner.