Antonio Pinto – Lord of War
Of course the most important thing that the wealthy, enlightened world can do to end this impending catastrophe is to stop feeding arms into it. That will be the determining factor in how all of this turns out. Not what Israel does, or what Hamas does, or what Iran does, but what the ‘grownups’ do. Whether they can control their appetites for profit and imperial influence. Peace has a price and that price is finding a more ethical way of making money and winning hearts and minds. Simple as that.
Politics and policy are not abstractions. Everything that one human being, that one living thing, does to another is personal. What may happen after is equally personal. That is all there is.
Kanye West [by way of Daft Punk… :] – Stronger
Listen, I’m from the southern regions of this hell hole, and we tend to have a different take on things than, say, someone from New England or the West Coast. Or Europe. But I think we all need to return to the old ways. Ain’t no law or justice that touches rich people or politicians or rulers. Nothing but legislatures looking for ways to fuck people over, spy agencies violating people’s shit and fucking them over, and state militants following orders to do occupations and genocides everywhere.
It’s a fuckin’ mess, and laws, blathering, and whining are useless tools for cleaning it up. We need to abandon this liberal legalistic nonsense. We need to do things the way they were done in the old days. If a noble fucks you over, that’s a vendetta. If it’s bad enough, or hurts you enough, that’s a family or clan blood feud. You meager need to remember how to hold a proper grudge against the mighty. Isn’t that what the Old Testament says? ‘Thou shalt not fuck around lest ye fucking find out?’
Ain’t nothin’ gonna change the fact that you’re a fake. A fraud. A demagogue. Using a faith tradition and a state and a history of collective trauma to turn the whole region, and possibly the world, into a reflection of the mess you’ve made of your own life and your own political career. Ain’t nobody ever stepped to me without understanding exactly who and what they are, or understanding the precise magnitude of their mistake. You’re no different, Yahu.
Then defend yourself, asshole. You’re so goddamned brilliant and bold and true? Buy or build your own weapons. Shoot down your own drones and missiles. You want your kids to go die colonizing Gaza and the West Bank and Iran, be my guest, but our children don’t need it. The United States military is not the solution to the last seventy-five years of mutual trauma your Zionist bullshit cultivated, or to your personal legal problems. Man up, then.