Redux Rendezvous VII

This is the final installment of our specific Redux Rendezvous series. That means it is the seventh in the series, which this seventh month comes out on the seventh day, our twenty-seventh issue of the year. Which as far as I know means absolutely nothing. It is not so much we have run out of ways to enlarge these redux basics, but rather in a forest of stupendously changing events we keep finding amazing trees and other life that needs deeper description.

Through this series timeline our separate Monday posts have become more important as descriptions of current events that got our attention in the previous week. These articles began in late January as a Week in Review posts, but over time they have become more focused commentary rather than spun reporting.

At the same time while doing the Redux Rendezvous series we have been able to focus on broader observations on what is developing in our world that no one seems to see or understand. Contrary to the uncertainty that you read and hear in the big bad world, everything that is now happening is following natural law, or more precisely is falling apart because we humans think we know better and hence create mess after mess as the result of our own foolishness.

This week we will sort of encapsulate our remarks in the context of a Ubermenschen failure. True, the world really has no superhuman people, except in their own eyes, but our human focus is still the belief that somehow the combined wisdom of humanity can make this whole adventure function better than it historically has been able to provide.

These uber-thoughts surfaced in the early morning hours as I was musing about the mess that Michael Steele has produced by remarks, at a Republican Party fundraiser over Afghanistan being president Obama’s war. Steele said it is doomed to failure because no power has been able to create a nation there in over a thousand years.

Steele’s observations are basically in line with our comments about the lack of somewhat related historic success when it comes to fighting counterinsurgency wars. Our thoughts that Afghanistan is really Obama’s Vietnam, and in the broader context just as the president kept the Laissez-Faire Scoundrels in charge of the financial system, it seems that he also kept the Bush era neocons in charge of foreign affairs.
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Tags: Michael Steele, Afghanistan, Ubermenschen, Social Darwinism, Laissez Faire Scoundrels, Collectivist Elitists, Radical Islamists, Complacent Agnositics, Tradtional Independents, counterinsurgency, nation building