tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14750035.post114264416529394919..comments2023-10-28T06:59:04.980-07:00Comments on Ed Coletti's P3: O.I.L./Yeats/National DebtEd Colettihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05337856316631860342noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14750035.post-1143059722576567222006-03-22T12:35:00.000-08:002006-03-22T12:35:00.000-08:00Hi Ed -A very powerful piece by Mr. Palast. Thank...Hi Ed -<BR/>A very powerful piece by Mr. Palast. Thanks for posting it. The "oily-gopolists" are, indeed, doing well, as are Haliburton and a variety of our "defence" contractors. <BR/>I read, recently, that the major US export is now arms. If it was shoes, we'd sponsor a myriad "walks" and races and marathons around the world. If it was furniture, we'd see huge "home-shows" popping up all over the globe. If it was swimming pools, we'd sponsor innumerable swimming sports, and races, and community baths. However - it's arms. It makes one wonder what, then, we sponsor, in order to sell our goods to the world.<BR/><BR/>Thanks to you - and Katherine, for the Yeats piece. You're right, Ed, he's an awesome poet...<BR/><BR/>Here's a little something of his that has always stunned me:<BR/><BR/>My fiftieth year had come and gone,<BR/>I sat, a solitary man,<BR/>In a crowded London shop,<BR/>An open book and empty cup<BR/>On the marble table-top.<BR/>While on the shop and street I gazed<BR/>My body of a sudden blazed;<BR/>And twenty minutes more or less<BR/>It seemed, so great my happiness,<BR/>That I was blessed and could bless.<BR/><BR/>( Ah, to write a single such paragraph in a lifetime... )<BR/><BR/>By the way - I enjoyed the "Demos Song." I even sang some of it to my wife. I guess I didn't do it justice, tho - she threatened to hit me!"joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07631627126613448792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14750035.post-1142905885255831302006-03-20T17:51:00.000-08:002006-03-20T17:51:00.000-08:00I love seeing that Yeats made your Blog!kI love seeing that Yeats made your Blog!<BR/><BR/>kAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14750035.post-1142900108440461202006-03-20T16:15:00.000-08:002006-03-20T16:15:00.000-08:00My Dear Anonymous,But the point of the piece was t...My Dear Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>But the point of the piece was that "incompetence" was NOT what the oil issue was about. Rather, Palast demonstrates that the plan was to sieze the oil, conspire with the Saudis, and keep the prices up by keeping much of the Irqi oil off the market. Thanks for commenting. Please continue, but, in the future, at least add your first name.<BR/><BR/>Thanks,<BR/><BR/>Ed C.Ed Colettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05337856316631860342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14750035.post-1142899428002715372006-03-20T16:03:00.000-08:002006-03-20T16:03:00.000-08:00Yes, the "operation" was handled incompetently. Le...Yes, the "operation" was handled incompetently. Let me suggest we should have marched in with twice as many troops, freed the Kurds, created Kurdistan, freed the Southern areas now policed by the Brits, created a country for those people, "protect" the oil and let those in the so-called "traiangle" kill themselves. Instead, we have promised to let them have a resource that belongs to the World as much as trees and oceans and their busy killing us! They do not undrstand "Liberation"and should not have been "liberated!" What shoould have been liberated is the civilized world's energy supply. MISSION NOT ACCOMPLISHED!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com