By Al Schumann on Tuesday April 20, 2010 09:06 AM
The Obama regime is proud to continue the tradition established by the Bush regime, in many ways, and when it comes to the Global War on Evil they're not afraid to put their best foot forward. They're also keen on recycling.
Via Flagrancy To Reason, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, a much killed man, has been killed again. This time with a difference, which unfortunately must be left as an exercise for the discerning reader.
Comments (20)
Incompetence or hubris, to use the same Goldstein so many times?
Posted by Jack Crow | April 20, 2010 9:50 AM
Posted on April 20, 2010 09:50
A highly specialized form of stupidity, is my best guess. The double-domed merit types are social cretins, though they're often quite bright in other areas, and they rise through the ranks as managers. The people they deal with have all sorts of poor social habits themselves. The double domes wind up thinking of them as idiots, and don't bother to make their hogwash convincing. Because, after all, It's not economical to waste high grade persiflage on people who are or will act content with shopworn fables. The ambitious underlings rise through the ranks based on their merit ability to enforce belief in the hogwash. Eventually, enough people are willing to go along to make resistance a risky proposition.
It's stupidity through and through. But it works. Until it slams into organizations that have a superior capacity for violence.
Posted by Al Schumann | April 20, 2010 10:31 AM
Posted on April 20, 2010 10:31
"organizations that have a superior capacity for violence"
or a superior deftness with violence and delivery on promises
see hezzi wezzi boolis
and not to be too precise
the ccp has shown some superior ability here to
so far
the dark side of uncle stymie and beyond that
uncle besting crowd has the record of success
the " we'll play by open society rules "
sticking to pan america
compare the castro boys operation
to
the first ortega administration/regime
and the allende administration /demi-regime
seems pluralism in the civil xsector let alone the political
turns out to be
a loser from jump street
unless hugo the magnificent succeeds
and proves there's been one unbroken link
in the chain of people's democracies
and even if so
some will spell hugo's success
OIL not superior organization or program
Posted by op | April 20, 2010 11:19 AM
Posted on April 20, 2010 11:19
Agree that Hizbollah may not have superior capacity for violence, so much as OP's "deftness."
Posted by Jack Crow | April 20, 2010 11:22 AM
Posted on April 20, 2010 11:22
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi is Keyser Sose!
Posted by AlanSmithee | April 20, 2010 11:30 AM
Posted on April 20, 2010 11:30
When someone's name is Omar's Father, from Baghdad, it's easy to kill him again and again. That it is not the same Abu Omar, or the right Abu Omar, is a detail troubling only to those inclined to quibble over the the details of the Great March to Imperial Victory.
Posted by RedPhillip | April 20, 2010 12:54 PM
Posted on April 20, 2010 12:54
RedPhillip, I now feel ashamed to have quibbled. Perhaps if they killed all the Omar's fathers, they'd be bound to get at least one evildoer and after a while, well, imperial victory could rest its weary feet.
Posted by Al Schumann | April 20, 2010 2:04 PM
Posted on April 20, 2010 14:04
It's worthy quibbling, Al. If Omar's Poppy doesn't die, the number two of "Al Qaeda in [insert place with menacingly Islamic sounding name]" will still die, somewhere, somehow.
And CNN will still ask if this "spells trouble" for the Iraqi insurgency...
Posted by Jack Crow | April 20, 2010 2:08 PM
Posted on April 20, 2010 14:08
Jack, yeah, the "Number Two Leader" pony is always good for another trot around the zombie track. They might even be smart enough to start using it, after poor old Abu Omar is killed a few more times.
Posted by Al Schumann | April 20, 2010 6:54 PM
Posted on April 20, 2010 18:54
We keep having to kill him/them because he's/they're all clones! Or vampires! Or vampire clones! Do I have to explain everything to you people?!
Posted by ms_xeno | April 20, 2010 9:03 PM
Posted on April 20, 2010 21:03
Ms. Xeno, my heavens! I didn't know they were vampire clones. Of course this changes everything. I fully support the efforts of whoever is doing something about it, whatever that something may be.
Posted by Al Schumann | April 20, 2010 9:37 PM
Posted on April 20, 2010 21:37
I am not a number. I am A FREE MAN!
Posted by lacp | April 20, 2010 9:38 PM
Posted on April 20, 2010 21:38
Father Omar from Baghdad is either a cat or a chimera. Take your pick.
Posted by Sean | April 21, 2010 1:07 AM
Posted on April 21, 2010 01:07
father omar
the friar tuck of osama hood's aflaq op
Posted by op | April 21, 2010 9:17 AM
Posted on April 21, 2010 09:17
http://action.seiu.org/page/s/andystern
now here's a us prime ham
bye bye andy u fuckwit
go play jiminy cricket at disney world
Posted by op | April 21, 2010 9:24 AM
Posted on April 21, 2010 09:24
Bidness Week loves old-new Andy:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_17/b4175023756413.htm?chan=magazine+channel_new+business
Talk about your perfect obituary!
Posted by Michael Dawson | April 21, 2010 2:46 PM
Posted on April 21, 2010 14:46
"Armed with an Ivy League education"
Posted by op | April 21, 2010 3:39 PM
Posted on April 21, 2010 15:39
Is it possible that Abu Omar is Schrödinger's Terrorist? Could Abu Omar exist only as a potentiality of quantum superposition, simultaneously alive and dead depending on whether or not he's being observed by a Hellire missile equipped remotely-piloted drone?
Well, probably not. Personally, I favor Ms. X's vampire clone theory.
Posted by AlanSmithee | April 22, 2010 10:21 AM
Posted on April 22, 2010 10:21
I can imagine the sweet discordian goulash that R.A. Wilson would make of a Schrodinger's Terrorist, Alan Smithee.
Posted by Jack Crow | April 22, 2010 3:00 PM
Posted on April 22, 2010 15:00
Got any links to "merit[ricious] class" actors, white collar crime, and the financial crisis?
There were an awful lot of lawyers, accountants, marketing types, personal trainers, programmers, and hedgies raising money for the Obama campaign", and while I'd be "shocked, shocked..." Well, you know the rest.
Posted by lambert strether | April 24, 2010 8:50 AM
Posted on April 24, 2010 08:50