The war between the "narratives"
It's yalla ya Nasrallah - song from Israel Vs. yalla ya Nasrallah - The real thing!
Thanks to YouTube
It's yalla ya Nasrallah - song from Israel Vs. yalla ya Nasrallah - The real thing!
Thanks to YouTube
Pundits who screw-up: No big deal...
Matt Barganier desconstructs Andrew Sullivan's mea sorta culpa on Iraq in Time magazine (Sullivan seen above in a thoughtful pose on Bill Maher's "Real Time"). There have been many of those in recent weeks (including by WFB and Fukuyama ). In an commentary published last year, Oops! I helped start a War which was about one of the earlier apologizing-war-aplogists, I pointed out to the contrast between the way the losers who operate in the market (including financial analysts) are punished and the reality in which the losers in the political game (including foreign policy analysts) rarely get punished: Imagine: for a few years you were investing the money you had saved for your daughter's college education in one of those moderately conservative plans that provided some increase in the value of the investment without exposing it to major risks. But then your financial planner – let's call him Ken P. – got in touch with you and came up with a really great ide...
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The second video here is poorly edited, especially the audio.
Maybe it's not my place, since I'm not exactly familiar with the finer points of video editing myself, but still...
And I could have done without the overdubbed cries and moans over the pictures. The pictures say enough without that junk.
Try to think of this as a Seinfeld episode with Olmert as a recurring character who has to deal with this Nasrallah guy during his day job.
Even though there's only a miniscule chance that he or she actually reads this blog, but still... I should have made that clear.
Speaking of narrative:
"The main subject in the Israeli press is: How could this war have been fought better?
And so it's clear that they didn't achieve what they thought they were going to achieve. And now the question is: Can they create a narrative of victory which will give them a chance to get out?"
-David Brooks
Brooks & Shields, Aug 4. 2006
It seems to this observer that things are just getting started and before things get better, they will get worse and Brooks may have to recalibrate his pitch.