Michael Ignatieff: self-shackled prisoner of history
September 3, 2009 7:38 pm Canadian PoliticsFor a man who is descended from ministers to two Tsars, Ignatieff seems to have forgotten a key element of the old family gameplan: a summer mobilization when your enemy has no need of a dicey Schlieffen plan is itself fraught with potential disaster. And does he think his last flirtation with a Triple Entente will be any more successful?
True, this time the war will be over by Christmas but the Russian nobility may be pulled down by the Reds much sooner than the last time around.
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Dalwhinnie :
Date: September 3, 2009 @ 11:02 PM
I await the results with interest. I think Harper is going to eat his lunch, but this may be the result of partizanship.
duggan's dew :
Date: September 4, 2009 @ 5:03 AM
To me, there is something wonderfully unreal about Ignatieff. Here is a fellow who has reinvented himself several times, shedding spouses, institutions and countries along the way but now, in his sixties, he has assumed a role for which this tasting menu lifestyle may not have prepared him. He is learning that while words may not have much meaning, they do have power. He appears startled, even betrayed, that people notice the contradictions bobbing in his wake. “Israelis fiendish murderers! Oh, wait, no, Israelis good! Meant good! Forget before.” In any election contest, the mismatch will, I think, be so great as to require Harper to conceal his love of inflicting pain. While I share his enjoyment of the sight and sound of lefties enduring psychic torment, the masses have not yet refined their palates to savour such exquisite dainties.