Well, here goes.
Right now, it seems that Hillary is going to be the next Secretary of State, which is a big Hurray for we Americans who are living abroad because our image has been in the ditch along with the financial crisis. I predict that Hillary will be of great help to restore a more sane image of us and will help to build alliances, create allies and go after the terrorists in a new way. You know, I think the terrorists have so deeply sabotaged the Internet, that they have been able to look like they know just exactly what they are doing; now Hillary can go after them in a new way and take them by surprise. Maybe, if successful, the tables have turned. No more worn-out excuses about this and that and all of the terrible things that the American have done that created the Age of Terrorism in the first place. I saw Kingdom on HBO, which is excellent by the way, that posited the theory that the Arabs are very zenophobic about foreigners and that they can't stand to see them walking about free and easy. So what do they they do? Instead of getting an education like the rest of us, the build bombs and kill people. Its the latest version of insanaity to hit the planet after the gulag communists of the 60's and 70's when they attacked and decimated so many innocent societies that weren't free to kick their asses out of their countries.
So, what is going to be the next insanity?
I am reading Cambodia: Year Zero which is an analysis of the mind-set and the procedures and techniques used at S-21. To me this is all new, I have never known anything like what occurred at S-21 but apparently it is very similar to the "purges" that have been taking place in Communist countries for a long time. It seems to me you have to be pretty stupid to want to be a communist because they have nothing to offer but pain and illness. No freedoms, no education, no liberties, no economic plans that work, no rule of law. This one is the clincher, the no rule of law, because there is something very intoxicating about being beyond the bounds of society and its laws that creates maniacal urges in people to try and control everything for themselves and not by prescriptive laws either, by the unspoken ones instead.
I know that all of my friends are educated and have already read all of these books and, maybe, I am the late comer. I consider myself very lucky to be able to read all of these books now and maybe I have penetrated the tourist veneer of travelling and am now on a better and more realistic level.
These are my thoughts for today.
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