01 Feb Glenn Beck, Foreign Policy Expert
I realize that Fox has long since given up any pretense of engaging in journalism, but I’m still shocked that it continues to let someone who is so clearly mentally disturbed poison political discourse (and put lives in danger) in the U.S. Here’s his latest gem:
BECK: I believe that I can make a case in the end that there are three powers that you will see really emerge. One, a Muslim caliphate that controls the Mideast and parts of Europe. Two, China, that will control Asia, the southern half of Africa, part of the Middle East, Australia, maybe New Zealand, and God only knows what else. And Russia, which will control all of the old former Soviet Union bloc, plus maybe the Netherlands. I’m not really sure. But their strong arm is coming. That leaves us and South America. What happens to us?
I’m pretty sure, having spent years in both, that Australia and New Zealand are never going to fall to the Chinese. The Netherlands to Russia, maybe…
In the broader context I welcome your acknowledgment that those who proclaimed the coming triumph of the Soviet model were mentally disturbed. Shame we didn’t incarcerate them at the time.
This sounds less like an editorial and more like a report on how his recent game of Risk went.
GM,
Well said! Ever heard Eddie Izzard’s riff on Risk, in which he critiques Hitler’s decision to invade Russia by pointing out that everyone knows you put all your armies on the purple countries and build outward?
Isn’t this Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations, reductio ad absurdum?
Why did he stick us with the Russians? I thought we were going to end up with the kaliphate… (Theo van Gogh murder, Ayaan Hirsi Ali panicking, etc.)
Kevin, I really like your profound analysis on various issues of ICL and IHL (such as your post on the crime of aggression after Kampala) and I hope you will find your way back to this spirit.
I don’t think there is any need on a quality blog like opinio juris to discuss what Glen Beck things, let alone Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O”Reilly, Sarah Palin, George Bush Jr., Joe Lieberman, Dick Cheney, or other ‘unique’ characters in US politics and media.
I really hope, and I mean this in a deeply constructive way, that blogs like the one above or other recent rather – sorry – prophane blog postings of yours do stop.