Morris on Coco-terrorism
Sometimes you've got to wonder about Dick Morris:
As the victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia makes clear, cocaine is concomitant of oil in fueling terrorism in the Western Hemisphere. The narcoterrorists use our dependence on black oil and white cocaine to power their anti-American work and terrorist activities. Soon their terror will spread to our shores. Already the cocaine infects our young.
How's that, exactly? The paragraph reads more like a Babelfish translation than something published in an American newspaper.
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Apparently you're not familiar with the oeuvre of Pastor Swank.
January 17, 2006 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Apparently you never had the opportunity to serve as an editor of a high school newspaper or other journal.
January 17, 2006 10:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, Morris has demonstrated on numerous occasions that he is more of a poet than an analyst to be taken seriously.
January 17, 2006 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well you piqued my interest.
Here's Dick exploring the meme in further depth in November, using the small and therefore relatively safe "Jewish World Review" market.
It's obvious to me, especially when he says
My wife Eileen and I have worked in 11 Latin American countries over the past decade
that he's working on memes for selling his services to some anti-socialist party or another down there.
Wasn't he recently working for a political party in some small Central Asian country, too? I thought I saw that somewhere.
January 17, 2006 11:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Given Dick's known, um, proclivities, he's probably a hypocrite to boot. Coke and hookers go together like wine and cheese, or at least so I'm told. Dick Morris - only in America!
January 17, 2006 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course, when Dick was Bill's buddy you probably didn't have a problem with him. That whole "triangulation" tactic worked pretty well for eight years. Selling an inflated internet bubble economy as a Clinton triumph seemed to have worked too. How soon we forget.
Is it just me or does it seem that the world's thirst for oil does support terrorism? The two largest financial supporters of terrorism are the Saudis and the Iranians. We can't tell the Saudis to take a hike because we are beholden to them. The rest of the world can't do anything to Iran because Iran is one of their largest providers. Witness the Chinese and European pussy footing over sanctions against Iran. The US can be bold because the Iranians aren't the source of our fix. The Saudis are our "hook-up".
I had a friend from Colombia blast the US for ruining his country. I asked (foolishly) "What are you talking about? If you didn't produce cocaine you wouldn't have lost control of the country." He then pointed out to me that they didn't have a problem until we had a (coke) problem. Hmmmm.
Sorry, I know, it's just me.
January 18, 2006 4:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
The idea that the Europeans are excessively dependent on Iran for oil, but that we can operate without regard to Iran's oil supplies, is mind-numbingly stupid.
A barrel of oil is a global commodity from the moment of its discovery, whether it lies in Alaska, Texas, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, Angola, or Venezuala. When pumped out of the ground, it figuratively flows into a vast reservoir from which global customers draw on the basis of how much each of them is willing and able to buy that day. If Iran stops its supply, what will the EU do? Bid for oil from other sources. The same ones that supply us, today. And they'll get that oil, that oil formerly destined for our use, unless we match or exceed the price an EU nation is willing to pay. Oil is all about the diminution or augmentation of supplies worldwide. Notice those big commodities markets, those trade quotes published in your newspaper? Why are they there? This is all, all so very, very basic stuff. Like, middle school, basic.
My guess is that coca markets are globalized, too, though to what extent, I can't guess.
Not ever having invested in cocaine markets, I'm not sure wh
January 18, 2006 7:45 AM | Reply | Permalink