MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
"Tough facing retirement with no real hobbies. Take up gardening? A bit too green for a rape-the-earth oil exec. What would my friends say? So when Donald said I could roam the world, pull down a few bucks, and still keep to a loose, leisurely retirement schedule, I was in. Even free green fees. Wouldn't even have to talk to anyone, or so I thought. At Exxon we had our own PR department to handle the nosy press. Here I figured the FBI or Secret Service would handle it, or I simply leave them off my calendar - traveling light by private plane is standard MO anyway. What I can't understand is how NATO even got a meeting - where's the money in that? Russia, China - major energy buys. NATO doesn't even pay for its own transport, and we're past propping up Mideast war zones - so 2003. Well, we'll see how it goes. I just might have to quit my job to spend more time with the family. Sheesh, what kind of retirement is that?"
Comments
The asshole is holding an ant-ISIS meeting on Wednesday, to “set Isis on a lasting and irreversible path to defeat”. The secretary of state lambasted the Obama administration for its policy on Isis, claiming his predecessor never had a proper strategy to defeat the extremist movement."
Funny, guess he's unaware of Obama's offensive that started Oct/Nov that's successfully rooting ISIS out of Mosul and northern Iraq as we speak, along with starting a similar alliance effort in Al Raqqa in Syria. Of course if he gets all his news from Russia Today, he probably doesn't realize this.
Memo to Trump officials - if you don't want to sound like a completely uninformed, vindictive moron, perhaps just try keeping mouth shut and Twitter account closed. If you're still standing in a year or even 6 months, consider yourself lucky.
Edit to Add: maybe they can discuss today's successes in killing 14 more militants & destroying a half-dozen booby-trapped vehicles, or taking over the city's underground passageways, or killing the head of ISIS' artilllery brigade. Must be painful for the ex-President to see how deep in the weeds his efforts have grown, all navel-gazing block-by-block fighting, rather than leading to a proper coffee-and-danishes conference on what ISIS means for world peace.
ETA2.0: alliance just captured a control center, killing 40 of ISIS in the process. A really stellar day to be having a trash-Obama review session. Presumably a few attendees may see the irony.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 7:16am
Thanks for reminding me about Borger's work. He sure picked up the right thing from that interview to headline; I imagine his less experienced colleages probably dissing that interview as not being worth a careful look. (And I do give IJR credit for not editing that part out, even though I see from wikipedia that they should be suspect for putting a GOP spin on things)
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 9:09am
IJR just fired someone for bogus reporting - maybe some self-reflection going on.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/22/2017 - 9:17am