[16:36:17] David Weman skriver: hey, I just thought of something?
[16:36:25] Alex Harrowell skriver: yes?
[16:36:36] David Weman skriver: what’s the difference between realists and neoconservatives?
[16:36:45] Alex Harrowell skriver: tell me
[16:37:20] David Weman skriver: realists are bismarck, neoconservatives are wilhelm II.
[16:37:38] Alex Harrowell skriver: +1
[16:37:59] Alex Harrowell skriver: or worse, Conrad von Hotzendorf * (actually his reported political views are remarkably similar to those of NRO et al)
[16:39:27] Alex Harrowell skriver: what worries me most of all about this is that being Wilhelmine Germany’s enemy was tough, but it was nothing compared to being one of their *allies*
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September 26th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Heh. You guys are nerds. Serious… nerds.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
We’re being encircled!
Doug M.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I’m standing on the train roof of history, shouting “Stop”, in the face of the inevitable decline of our superior civilisation. Clearly, there was nothing else I could do but pick up some crappy little country and smash it against the wall, to show I meant business.
September 28th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Verdammt. The decadent Anglo-Saxon liberal hegemony’s technology has detected my crude subterfuge.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Well, we’ve got an imported Austrian, but at least we have an anachronistic constitutional clause that keeps him from becoming
ChancellorPresident.October 2nd, 2008 at 4:05 am
From back in the early days… five years ago.
http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/europe-and-the-world/jean-cohen-and-henry-kissenger-recycled/