27-04-2010, 06:14 PM
Indeed Keith. One might even argue that the invasion and "regime change" of Panama was a dry run for the later invasion and regime change of Iraq --- providing one also factors in a few other invasions and regime changes along the way...
Uncle Sam has an uncanny ability to choose type A crooked, murdering bastards as their bosom friends only to later make them their deadly enemies. I can only suppose that deals and understandings made in deep secret - because of their complete contravention of international law - were later reneged upon thus necessitating a Herculean cleaning of the Augean stables.
Profits derived from the narcotics trade makes for itchy fingers I imagine.
And just like the Mafia Boss of all Bosses - the Capo di tutti capi - if an under-boss skims from the top a ruthless example must be made of them in order to show other under-bosses what they can expect if they also ever consider straying from the agreed path.
Uncle Sam has an uncanny ability to choose type A crooked, murdering bastards as their bosom friends only to later make them their deadly enemies. I can only suppose that deals and understandings made in deep secret - because of their complete contravention of international law - were later reneged upon thus necessitating a Herculean cleaning of the Augean stables.
Profits derived from the narcotics trade makes for itchy fingers I imagine.
And just like the Mafia Boss of all Bosses - the Capo di tutti capi - if an under-boss skims from the top a ruthless example must be made of them in order to show other under-bosses what they can expect if they also ever consider straying from the agreed path.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14