The Real Dolchstoss
May 24, 2007
Ah irony of ironies, it’s not coming from the feckless Dem Congress (redundancy?), which doesn’t even have the gumption to stab the military juggernaut in the back, but from a country which owes its very existence to recent US military intervention. Kuwait’s act of decoupling its currency from the dollar also has a certain resonance for those who are familiar with the Vietnam War’s effect on the dollar and the financial factors involved in the US’s withdrawal from the previous quagmire in American overseas military history. If one of the only countries in the world which should have a genuine interest a continuing US occupation of Iraq–at least if conventional wisdom is to be believed–finds it can’t even be inconvenienced any more to support the petrodollar, then one really has to wonder just where the questioning of our premises should begin. Incidentally, all this brings to mind the following masterpiece of political theatre:
Set aside a solid 45 mins to watch this, because it’s really impossible to stop once you get into it.
I’m embarrassed that I’d never heard this term before I read this post. It’s such a common tactic, though, I’m glad it has a name. I’m also glad it has such an awful association, although I wish it was easier to say.
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