Nepal
You know, I sometimes laugh at our political circumstances in this nation. The name of this blog is “Skull / Bones”, a name that comes from the fact that our two candidates in the last election come from the same fraternity. The situation is thus that I can legitimately say that I have no idea if the Gore / Lieberman (ahem — Lieberman) Administration would have sent us to Iraq or not, despite Gore’s frequent comments against the war in Iraq. The situation is thus that the Democratic Clinton Administration largely simply fulfilled the policy goals of the previous Republican Bush Administration: NAFTA, Welfare Reform, an economy run by Alan Greenspan — who may or may not have been mortgaging our future economic situation just a bit.
But it sure as heck beats the situation we have, in the guise of Democratic choices and political shifts, in other parts of the world.
Smirk about Palestine. I give you a ballot. Fatah or Hamas. Choose one!
Fatah. Hamas. Hamas. Fatah. Come on! Pull that level!! As that 1988 era Bloom County cartoon goes, “Wimp or Shrimp”.
Now let’s look at the political crisis in Nepal. Maoist Rebels are on the verge of overtaking the Nepalese Monoarchy.
I was listening to NPR the other day. They had an interview with this young man who had been kidnapped by the Maoists a number of years ago. The man said that he used to think of himself as having been kidnapped, but since then he has learned differently. There is fun in Brainwashing, isn’t there?
So, the fate of Nepal hangs in the balance. The fate of the region Nepal is in (I would not be able to spot Nepal on the map. It’s somewhere around India, right?) hangs in the balance. The fate of the world hangs in the balance. (Oh, not really.) It’s time for everyone to take sides!
Are you with the Monarchists, or are you with the Maoists?
As great a choice as an Iranian Revolution where you have a foreign-installed Shah versus a Fundamentalist Islamic Cleric.
Monarchists or Maoists. Maoists or Monarchists.