20-08-2012, 08:41 PM
Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:Jan, by coincidence I just finished listening to http://soundcloud.com/craig-murray/murder-in-samarkand
which is the Version of the book aired on the BBC4 radio in 2010.
It is this kind of experience which at one time is colourful and funny and on the other hand at the same time makes you choke.
Yup.
Ambassador Murray was naive.
He failed to imbibe and absorb the mantra of the British civil service and apparatchik politicians which is:
If the Uzbeki President is someone wth whom We Can Do Business, then he can boil to death anyone he likes...
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war