Uh-oh, there's that word again. The contect is predictable - a Dagbladet editorial - but the timing is a bit odd, what with the war being over and all.

The militarization of the politics of the American hyperpower which president George W. Bush has launched after the terrorist attacks on September 11 2001, is gradually pulling the country down in a quagmire that reminds one of the situation during the Vietnam war.

I'm sure the Americans will escape this political quagmire as quickly as they escaped the Afghan quagmire, the Iraqi quagmire, the Syrian quagmire, the Iranian quagmire and the French quagmire. Actually, I made up those last three - I just like saying quagmire, that's all. Quagmire, quagmire, quagmire. Quagmire! Quag. Mire. A mired quag. To quag a mire, the quag mires, the quag has mired.

Ok, I'm done now. Just had to get that word out of my system. (I suggest that Dagbladet does a similar excersise.)

Not only is your English very good (except for those 100 hounds you keep referring to), but your sense of humor is American.

Oh no! Is that an insult? Not meant to be. ;-)

From Nettavisen's answer to the question "Why is Norway the best country in the world?':

"Freedom of the press
Norway is the world leader when it comes to freedom of the press, far ahead of Sweden and Denmark. In fact, Norway is often used of an example of how the press should function in a democracy."

Well, I don't doubt that the Norwegian media are free to say what they wish to say. But when will they exercise that right and report more fully (and accurately) on opinions that don't accord with their own? I wonder who it is that regards Norway as an example of how the press should function in a democracy. I have been struck by the uniformity of opinion among the "opinion makers" in Norway, and it also seems to me that the Norwegian press blurs the line between news reporting and editorializing. Headlines in Norway are frequently used, for instance, to mislead and to express the opinion of the paper's editors.

I do think Norway is a great little country, but one of its few problems is the inability or unwillingness of its people to recognize that they do have a few small problems.

If Iraq were another Vietnam, then why isn't Henry Kissinger in Paris signing a bogus peace treaty that will give the country over to the bad guys?

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize" - musical satirist Tom Lehrer

Gill Doyle: The same is true of Finnish media. No diversity whatsoever: only shades of emphasis in the prevalent political line of the moment.

But they're convinced that Americans are the ones with the lack of diversity! I kid you not.

In one Finnish blog site, I pointed out that The New York Times was anti-war, and generally an adamant opponent of President Bush's policies. News to Finns, though, who pride on being on top of things.

"Never attribute to malice what can be sufficiently explained as incompetence."

I don't have a very high opinion of the Norwegian media generally, and I don't necessarily think the journalists' ignorance of things American is that unique. They seem to be similarily ignorant about many other issues. Doing hard homework is apparently not part of the journalistic ethos.

But wait, how do you say ''quagmire'' in Norwegian? Is it-- er, let me see-- [click]

''...trekker landet gradvis ned i ei hengemyr som minner om situasjonen under Vietnamkrigen...''

It's ''hengemyr,'' isn't it?

McGee: Well done! Or, as we say in Norwegian: Hurlumhei skarrum hurra!

The following revealing item on Henry Kissinger is extracted from an article from the 'New World Order Intelligence Update' [http://www.nwointelligence.com/NEWWORLD.HTM]:

'And, fellow-Canadians, as a faint echo of the freedoms we have now lost in this once great Dominion, here's a robust exercise of free speech, fresh from the Mother Country, which is now impossible to imagine in modern Canada!

[Henry Kissinger walks out on Paxman radio program in the U.K. after being asked, among other things, if he felt "like a fraud." Exchange below, as reported by THE GUARDIAN, 29th June, 1999]

Jeremy Paxman: "It's been 17 years since the last volume of your memoirs. You said you wanted to let the dust settle but [didn't you] need the distance in order to rewrite history?"

Dr Kissinger: "No I based these memoirs on documents which were as valid then as they are now."

Paxman: [describes Kissinger's claim that he ended the cold war as "farfetched"] "What bothers a lot of people is you seem to ignore the human rights of people within regimes with which you're trying to establish a balance of power."

Kissinger: "That's not correct either."

Paxman: question about supporting General Pinochet and undermining President Allende in Chile.

Kissinger: "We did not support Pinochet. In what way did we support Pinochet?"

Paxman: "You supported the military regime."

Kissinger: "After the coup we preferred Pinochet to Allende."

Paxman: "It doesn't stop there... You're on record justifying the [behaviour of the] Chinese government in Tiananmen Square."

Kissinger:... "I have never supported what the Chinese did in Tiananmen Square."

Paxman: "Did you feel a fraud for accepting the Nobel Prize [for the Indo-China agreement]?"

Kissinger: "I wonder what you do when you do a hostile interview?"

Paxman: [accuses Kissinger of a "wilful misreading of history"]

Kissinger: "It may be a misreading but it wasn't wilful."

Paxman: question about the "hundreds of thousands of people killed in the bombing of Cambodia".

Kissinger: "That's absolutely untrue. We have no evidence that hundreds of thousands of people were killed... I think this is an absolute outrage, it's nonsense."

Paxman: "You don't deny [the bombing of Cambodia] was secret though?... This was a secret operation against a neutral country..."

Kissinger: "Come on now, Mr Paxman, this was 15 years ago, and you at least have the ability to educate yourself about a lie on your own programme... "

Paxman: "What's factually inaccurate?"

Kissinger: "... That's outrageous... " [Kissinger abruptly leaves: Paxman calls out, "'Bye, Dr. Kissinger"!]'

You'll also find a superb archive of articles on the New World Order [which is impacting and changing us all increasingly] from the 'New World Order Intelligence Update', at http://www.rarehistorybooks.com/NWOCONSP.HTM. They are also mirrored at http://www.survivalistskills.com/NWODICT.HTM and at http://www.torontochristianbooks.com/NWOGOV.HTM. Well worth reading!

The following revealing item on Henry Kissinger is extracted from an article from the 'New World Order Intelligence Update' [http://www.nwointelligence.com/NEWWORLD.HTM]:

'And, fellow-Canadians, as a faint echo of the freedoms we have now lost in this once great Dominion, here's a robust exercise of free speech, fresh from the Mother Country, which is now impossible to imagine in modern Canada!

[Henry Kissinger walks out on Paxman radio program in the U.K. after being asked, among other things, if he felt "like a fraud." Exchange below, as reported by THE GUARDIAN, 29th June, 1999]

Jeremy Paxman: "It's been 17 years since the last volume of your memoirs. You said you wanted to let the dust settle but [didn't you] need the distance in order to rewrite history?"

Dr Kissinger: "No I based these memoirs on documents which were as valid then as they are now."

Paxman: [describes Kissinger's claim that he ended the cold war as "farfetched"] "What bothers a lot of people is you seem to ignore the human rights of people within regimes with which you're trying to establish a balance of power."

Kissinger: "That's not correct either."

Paxman: question about supporting General Pinochet and undermining President Allende in Chile.

Kissinger: "We did not support Pinochet. In what way did we support Pinochet?"

Paxman: "You supported the military regime."

Kissinger: "After the coup we preferred Pinochet to Allende."

Paxman: "It doesn't stop there... You're on record justifying the [behaviour of the] Chinese government in Tiananmen Square."

Kissinger:... "I have never supported what the Chinese did in Tiananmen Square."

Paxman: "Did you feel a fraud for accepting the Nobel Prize [for the Indo-China agreement]?"

Kissinger: "I wonder what you do when you do a hostile interview?"

Paxman: [accuses Kissinger of a "wilful misreading of history"]

Kissinger: "It may be a misreading but it wasn't wilful."

Paxman: question about the "hundreds of thousands of people killed in the bombing of Cambodia".

Kissinger: "That's absolutely untrue. We have no evidence that hundreds of thousands of people were killed... I think this is an absolute outrage, it's nonsense."

Paxman: "You don't deny [the bombing of Cambodia] was secret though?... This was a secret operation against a neutral country..."

Kissinger: "Come on now, Mr Paxman, this was 15 years ago, and you at least have the ability to educate yourself about a lie on your own programme... "

Paxman: "What's factually inaccurate?"

Kissinger: "... That's outrageous... " [Kissinger abruptly leaves: Paxman calls out, "'Bye, Dr. Kissinger"!]'

You'll also find a superb archive of articles on the New World Order [which is impacting and changing us all increasingly] from the 'New World Order Intelligence Update', at http://www.rarehistorybooks.com/NWOCONSP.HTM. They are also mirrored at http://www.survivalistskills.com/NWODICT.HTM and at http://www.torontochristianbooks.com/NWOGOV.HTM. Well worth reading!

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