Posted by sigismund on August 9, 2011, at 14:31:07
In reply to Re: A cultural Chernobyl » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on August 8, 2011, at 20:24:07
>>What provoked them?
Look how they have spread. Bit of a problem of social cohesion, from the looks of it. Impossible to imagine this in war time or post war Britain.
Blair is particularly interesting. I don't know enough about him. I find him worse than Bush....fewer excuses, more narcissism. But I don't know enough.
Thatcher said 'There is no such thing as society', and she seems to have been proved right by the march of events, but she would not like the mobs breaking into her house and ransacking it.
Our leaders really bother me. One of the wikileaks docs was about Kevin Rudd advising Hilary Clinton to (if I am not wrong) wage war on China under certain scenarios. Australia has this terribly tedious thing about punching above its weight, but even so.........how could he? The ALP?
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