Harold ("Who?") Pinter Wins Nobel Prize For Lunatic Crankery

Well, actually for literature. Gee, wasn't there a time people read his shit? Glad those days are long past.

He's what I like to term an "unhinged asshole":

The playwright said: “The US is really beyond reason now. It is beyond our imagining to know what they are going to do next and what they are prepared to do. There is only one comparison: Nazi Germany.

“Nazi Germany wanted total domination of Europe and they nearly did it. The US wants total domination of the world and is about to consolidate that.

“In a policy document, the US has used the term ‘full-spectrum domination’, that means control of land, sea, air and space, and that is exactly what’s intended and what the US wants to fulfil [sic]. They are quite blatant about it.�

It's amazing to me that smart people are capable of such vicious stupidity. The "full-spectrum domination" he alludes to is a war doctrine, and, as far as I know, no professional military has ever sought something short of full-spectrum domination. No generals, except perhaps a few Italian or French ones, ever proposed the "Let's Get Our Asses Kicked But Not So Badly As To Be Complete Embarassments Partial-Spectrum Semi-Domination" doctrine.

Who's to blame? Well, for once, not Bush, exactly. You.

Pinter blamed “millions of totally deluded American people� for not staging a mass revolt.

Johnny Coldcuts has a thoughtful rejoinder to Mr. Pinter. Coldcuts Content Warning.

posted by Ace at 04:31 PM

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