The absolutely ridiculous rhetoric we’ve been seeing this week (from *all* corners) over the Russia-Georgia conflict has shocked even this cynic.\u00c2\u00a0 Shocked me right back into the 80s.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently no one – especially those who were comfortably ensconced in the US – remembers what a batshit insane time it was, with two very small groups of men holding our continued existence in their hands.\u00c2\u00a0 I really thought those lessons were mostly learned.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently not.<\/p>\n
Here’s a cover of that time, from Sting.\u00c2\u00a0 Do we really need to review this?<\/p>\n
[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A18K7OM7tWA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n
Every bomb you make Every war you bill Oh can’t you see Every empty plate The absolutely ridiculous rhetoric we’ve been seeing this week (from *all* corners) over the Russia-Georgia conflict has shocked even this cynic.\u00c2\u00a0 Shocked me right back into the 80s.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently no one – especially those who were comfortably ensconced in the US – remembers what a batshit insane time it was, with two very small groups […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEvery job you take
\nEvery heart you break
\nEvery Irish wake
\nI’ll be watching you<\/span><\/p>\n
\nEveryone you’ve killed
\nEvery grave you fill
\nAll the blood you spill
\nI’ll be watching you<\/p>\n
\nYou belong to me
\nWe are billed to pay
\nOn that judgement day<\/p>\n
\nEvery word of hate
\nThose you subjugate
\nThose you violate
\nI’ll be watching you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"