Heifetz Bach Chaconne
Part 1 of 2 - for your delectation. The Decemberists aren't the only game in town :)
Part 1 of 2 - for your delectation. The Decemberists aren't the only game in town :)
posted by the jacobin at 10:15 AM
Saturday, November 18, 2006
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- Name: the jacobin
- Location: The Valley of Olives, Malta
Only serious when preaching - that just about captures it
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- Apologia pro causa mea
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- Cri de coeur
- Part the first
2 Comments:
The chaconne is a special type of continuous Theme and Variations where a fairly short subject (normally 4 measures) is relentlessly repeated and varied.
A bit like Bush's foreign policy. Short subject: Iraq has WMDs.
Repeated: Iraq has WMDs Iraq has WMDs Iraq has WMDs Iraq has WMDs
Varied: Axis of Evil. Bla. WMDs bla. Lack of Democracy. Bla. Terrorism.
Only difference - the Chaconne is pleasant and a cultural treasure. Bush is neither of the two.
You know, for once I'm not going to take the bait. If we had more of an opportunity to know each other, you would have, by now, discovered that my views about the Bush Administration are a bit more nuanced than you perceive. Of course accidents are made, and of course there was the WMD fiasco - and he, as the titular head of state and the executive branch, deserves to be blamed - and I think I've made that clear on more than one occassion.
What I can't understand, however, is what seems like your desire to have Europe distance itself wholesale from the United States. I really can't see what could be gained from such a manoeuvre. By all means, have a common and independent European foreign and security policy - if that can ever be achieved in any meaningful sense - but does that necessarily have to mean reducing the transatlantic alliance to rubble?
Sometimes you seem to me to be guilty of exactly what is one of the Bush Administration's greatest failings: when U.S foreign policy doesn't conform to your ideological leanings, instead of wishing to engage with the U.S, and change that policy through dialogue, you immediately give up and resort to pejorative comments which accomplish nothing. THe corollary to that, on the U.S side, has been 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys,', silly stories about French perfidy, etc, which accomplish NOTHING.
You say that you want politics to change - and I'm with you on that. But shouldn't the changes that we want to see in our politics be mirrored in our diplomacy? I happen to think so.
(I'd appreciate a non tongue-in-cheek reply, if that's possible.)
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