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From: O.Pine Category: Art Date: 12 July 2009 Time: 11:55 AM Review: Dunno about anyone else but pasting and searching never works for me, why can't you review his review? Anyroad whats bothering me is this; When Gordon Brown took over from prettyboy Blair I thought Brown was just lumbered with Blairs Afghan legacy which he would softly, softly put to bed but as the months rolled by Brown seemed to awkwardly justify this colonial idea of kicking ass in far flung places, then the Royal Family Media consultants got bizarrely involved with those "boys" and Brown was up to his elbows, then Barrack Obama got in power and I thought,"that'll do it", Barrack will put this craziness to bed but now Barrack and Gordon Brown are saying that they have to shoot up the Afghans to make their own countries safe, otherwise they'll come to London or New York but this is exactly where things went wrong in Vietnam and Northern Ireland, since Barrack has been saying these things I had to really ask myself if I was going bonkers, when I hear people like Robert Fisk I think, No, I'm not mad, but now I'm really confused by the whole thing, they seem to conveniently forget that these people also have a cause and the ones that were convicted for London's tragedy were mostly British, How can these isolated politicians be so terribly convinced about their opinion, I mean, they got the WMD thing very conveniently wrong, they misjudged the mood of the people with the expenses sham - a sham which really underlined how out of contact politicians are with the electorate or indeed anything and I assumed that this was just Blair and Bush giving the nod to something they both knew were dodgy ideas but thought it would help to appear that they were "men of action", In the light of so much doubt from the population and the scantiness of the military/political evidence of a logical strategy I have to question the insistent grip that these current politicians are exerting on such a singular idea which seems to be based on a man living in a cave giving instructions to his followers, can I be so out of touch that this seems barmy to me ? I don't doubt that such threats may exist but are'nt The West just making matters worse by stirring up a lot of hatred?,I don't think I'm naive but judging from the approving evidence I am just that... I thought about these things whilst watching a girl standing on the fourth plinth in the rain, an activity I am comparitively free to persue if you discount the manipulation of media hype, which reminded me of living in Yeovil Town centre and seeing bored people hanging around beneath a lamp post late at night and I listened to the radio four interviews with some of the people who went to stand whilst the fallen soldiers were ceremonially driven from the airfields and I wonder what is really going on and who can I trust to tell me....