Remember how Chimpler W. McCokeburton cost us our standing in the world?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

The world of Jacque "is that a new Roland II missile on the Iraqi highway or are you just happy to see US troops?" Chirac, Kojo "Is that a billion dollar oil contract in your pants? Boy, am I glad to see you!"Annan and Vladimir "Pan bender" Putin.

cali (82,024 posts)

We are in deep shit with our European allies.
 
Now you can blame this entirely on Snowden, but maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't be conducting these sweeping spy operations.

U.S. taps half-billion German phone, internet links in month: report

blah-blah-blah

Buzz Clik (30,332 posts)

2. It's a big PR game. We tap them, they tap us. They act outraged, we promise to be nice.
 
Nothing changes.

Kolesar (29,734 posts)

8. False outrage by Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
 
"It is beyond comprehension that our friends in the United States see Europeans as enemies,"

"As enemies" -- way into hyperbole. You are just talking to the people who can vote for you.

BeyondGeography (21,655 posts)

3. Something tells me life will go on

NRaleighLiberal (28,896 posts)

18. my guess - there is big, big money in all of this shit, both sides, all sides- on one hand, I am not
 
sure what to think. On the other hand, I think it is all, and always, about money and power. And the vast majority of us just get played.

Bluenorthwest (25,159 posts)

29. It is all about stealing and profit making, not security and safety

The proponents of this crap here on DU are mostly employed or their spouses are employed by the Security Industrial Complex. Ask them.

Nefarious shadow corporations.

No evidence necessary.

Now can we please go back to blaming Chimpler W. McCokeburton for Obama's incessant failures?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023133059

[jukin]

Not mine. Found on another site posted anonymously. SPOT ON!

Cognitive dissidence
One of the hallmarks of progressive “thought” is the ability to hold two diametrically-opposed and directly contradictory positions simultaneously, and insist that they are not only not contradictory, but that both of them are absolutely true, as well as being morally superior to anyone else’s opinions on either subject.
It is often encountered when progressives are busy trying to abolish an object or business they loathe (automobiles, tobacco, guns), while still trying to figure out some way to keep making money (tax revenue) off it. This is a classic example.
In the real world, someone with this “split” worldview would be defined (clinically) as suffering from a schizoid disorder. In progressive circles, it is defined as a higher plane of “enlightenment”.
What that means in concrete terms I leave as an exercise for the reader.