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Blossoming narcissism in the midst of collapse?
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Terence O'Leary
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Feb 27, 2007 13:02 PST
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From Harpers Weekly online I have extracted some snippets, the first of
which is clearly symptomatic of a classic narcissistic, dry-alcoholic:
Harpers Weekly, February 27, 2007 -
President George W. Bush compared the War
on Terror to the American Revolution: "General Washington
understood that the Revolutionary War was a test of wills,
and his will was unbreakable." British Prime Minister Tony
Blair announced that he would bring home more than 1,600
of the 7,100 British troops in Iraq. Vice President Dick
Cheney said that the withdrawal was "an affirmation that
there are parts of Iraq where things are going pretty
well"; he also said that breaking "the will of the
American people" was Al Qaeda's strategy. "They win
because we quit." "Dick was always very realistic," said
Kenneth Adelman, an arms-control official in the Reagan
Administration and friend to Cheney. "I don't really
understand how month after month he gets briefings showing
Iraq's getting worse and worse, and he engages in all this
happy talk."
"The day after a Sunni imam in Fallujah issued
a condemnation against Sunni militants, a truck bomb
exploded beside his mosque, killing 36 worshippers and
wounding at least 62 more."
Jerry Atlas says that there are "..too few of these Islamic
intellectuals,..." and leaders who are willing to "speak up." Well, when
"speaking up" results in almost immediate retaliation upon one's followers,
and one is fully cognizant of this "likely outcome" before speaking up, I
would suspect some dissociative processes at work in the psyche of the
"speaker-upper."
Terence
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