Yes, but that still doesn't explain why he was hiding in the boot of Sir C ' s car.
He was a charming fellow, and as I was travelling under diplomatic privilege there was no risk.
I was never likely to make it to Argentina in a puddlejumper, of course. Le Touquet is about the limit of my foreign travels in light aeroplanes these days.
He said he was coming home to visit his mum, and that they'd nick him at immigration
for being in La Legion.
He even showed me his képi, if that helps.
Yes. He persuaded Carter to sponsor the Mujahedin in order to provoke a Soviet invasion.
"I explained to the president that this support would in my opinion lead to a military intervention by the Soviets."
Decades later, and not much seems to have changed. But hey, they're OUR Islamist fanatics / Nazis, right?
indeed I'm worried Tim mght google and not let me stay at his villa now tbh
will have to tone it down till all booked up
another one joins the list :shakeshead:
A likely story. How much did you charge?
Worse than that, it was the Guardian.
We do this all the time though, A. It's how we roll.
I effect, we're all on the same side. Like Champions League football clubs.
I think that's a given, snin
Or at least a funky given
Ah, the public is as well-informed as it's ever been. It's not or fault if they refuse to
believe their own eyes. Should we take them seriously?
How about the BSM; should we take them seriously too and recuse ourselves from the European Cup because it's full of people we don't like?
Battery Sergeant-Major? Battlefield Spectrum Management? Battle Stations Missile?
I'm struggling a little with the European cup simile up there too. My apologies for being slow today.
Ah. It's just business; this way everybody has a chance to benefit, so
long as we stop all the nonsense about principles :shudder:
:-)
Supporting Democracy over Fascism is such a tiresome principle after all.
I look forward to seeing the working as to how everybody benefits from this. Depends on the definition of 'everybody', I expect.
Sure. It's not really our business to tell others how to live. Not if it doesn't suit us.
The beneficiaries are, of course, anyone we live with and care about. Who else is there :shrug:
"It's not really our business to tell others how to live." Exactly - which is why
I'm an anti-interventionist.
In this case that means not egging on one side with continual diplomatic support and massive wheelbarrows full of cash, to the point of overthrowing a democracy. In general terms it means not doing the whole liberal-interventionist/neocon warhawk thing that's been going on for the last 20 years now.
If, OTOH, someone was to say "look, actually we're doing this to encircle Russia because we ultimately want to pilfer their geological wealth" then that would at least be recognisable, old-school, pillage-driven imperialism.
There's a Big Lebowski type quote there, but I'll leave it to Jorge or Supermac if they show up.
We only say them fings for the benefit of the papers and your beloved public though
Nobody really believes it. Anyway we certainly don't.
I don't recall describing the public in quite such affectionate terms.
I do find the Orwellian double-speak highly deceptive though. The public is repeatedly told that Western support for the coup is 'mediation', while Russia's objections are 'meddling'. A democratically elected leader is described as a 'dictator', and the foreign-sponsored violent overthrow of his government is described as a 'revolution'.
Lies. :shrug:
