No surprise, of course.
The neocons have done the most to dismember Yugoslavia, and they are still at it. But they have also moved on to Belgium. They have their eye on Russia. They are sowing discontent in Anglophone Canada. And they will turn their attention to Spain, and to the United Kingdom, soon enough.
With regard to Kosovo, all the coverage of potential precedents has referred to places like Scotland and Catalonia. But Kosovo is not in anything like that league. After today, there is no reason why any arbitrary administrative unit at all might not declare itself independent as soon as it has a Muslim majority. How about the former Metropolitan County of West Yorkshire, which still exists for ceremonial purposes?
And why only a Muslim majority? Why not the southernmost counties of the United States once they have Hispanic majorities, if they don't already have them? Both a Muslim majority in West Yorkshire and Hispanic majority in, say, Southern California or Southern Florida will be, and might already be, a direct product of the "free" market. So, is anyone still saying that that market is conservative? No, it is not.
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Good points. The neocons almost succeeded in splitting up Iraq into three countries, one of which might have been dominated by Sunni fundamentalist jihadists.
ReplyDeleteWho did not exist in Iraq before the bulwark against them was taken out.
ReplyDeleteThis Mr Piccolo is just another "Martin Miller" sockpuppet you muppet.
ReplyDeleteYou are like a cyber Mr Garrison of "Southpark". Why do you not get a sockpuppet called "Mr Hat".
You really are the most ridiculous man!
I can assure you that he is a very real person, and an invaluable source of information.
ReplyDeleteWho are you going to vote for, once Ed Miliband makes it three parties out of three that now beleive the Iraq War was wrong?
@Mr. Lindsay,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind words.
@BDJ,
No, you are wrong, I am not David Lindsay writing under a pseudonym, if that is what you are implying. I am sure you are surprised that there are people who agree with Mr. Lindsay. Don't be. There are many of us.
People dredging up the Martin Miller fantasy should be bloody careful. That made it into print once. On the day that Mr. Lindsay was undergoing one of his bouts of major surgery the people who wrote and published it were visited by both the police and the social services on two unrelated but extremely serious charges. Mr. Lindsay has some very powerful friends and they obviously act to protect him with him having to ask them or being in any position to do so. Those were just kids by the way. Imagine what they would do to grownups. Don't go there. Mr. Lindsay is off limits.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that someone is finally saying these things, Anon.
ReplyDeleteWe seasoned Lindsay watchers have marvelled for years at the strangely stunted careers of people lined up for great things until they fell out with him and were shunted into obscure sidelines for years on end. For that to happen once or a few times would be understandable, but it is a real recurring theme across a quite wide range of fields. I hope the editor of the Northern Cross enjoys being nothing more than the editor of the Northern Cross until he retires.
There have been the positions handed to him on a plate at unnaturally early ages, less likely to happen now that he is getting on a bit but very remarkable in his youth. Two school governorships while still a student, that sort of thing. Distinguished people have been moved without explanation to make room for him and least one proper, day job career has never recovered. Collateral damage?
Then there is how rich and powerful institutions and organisations always make peace with him in the end. it is never the other way round, he never needs to make the move. They always do in the end, too. Somehow they feel compelled to. This will not apply to the Telegraph because both sides give every impression that relations are still more than cordial. As so often with David Lindsay, it is all very complicated but all entirely in his favour.
The student newspaper that crossed him is now being taken over by his protégés although he will deny all knowledge of a plot. He is probably telling the truth when he says that he does not read it but that is not the question. He has a long and ridiculous history of incredulously denying that he cultivates protégés but who else do you know who kept a court of them at all of 20?
You are right about how protective his friends are and how "uncompromising" some of the most protective are. One of my favourite David Lindsay stories (I did not hear this from him) concerns someone now in the House of Lords who once said to him "You don't only dress like the Mafia, do you?" That was when he was still at school! Within about four years he was a governor of that school. Plus another one.
On topic, please.
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