I paraphrase the first paragraph here in an article about a book written by Hollywood “insiders” which mentions government foreign policy with allusions to the defense department in its very first sentence.

..Nuf said ’bout that…unless you want to start a long conversation here Mr. Malone.

…yes, I do have a gift of gab…

Thus I’m compelled to let you in on a few personal notes… (I’m not even sure I can do that here in this format)…but, before I went into the US NAVY I had been doing my own privately funded research into the subject of terrorism in Northern Ireland…When I joined the NAVY back in 1999, I was in my prime and very much one of the “new Dylans” as an Irish/Italian, (aka “white”). My job in the NAVY took me to Fort Meade, next to the NSA campus there.
Now, as this article delineates, “soft power” is a policy of defense. The NSA is very involved (aka your word, “paranoid”..I’m not treally pissin’ my pants here) with who your icons get to be…and they’ve become very stupid and reckless…Why wouldn’t you believe that? I just use Ron L. as “Exhibit A” in defense of my United States and where the twain began to meet with such disastrous results…..I was there on the NSA grounds in training and I had very disturbing confrontation with some snotty little brat who was fanatical about clubbing status and had connections in the upper brass. Well, she got her panties all twisted up about my having Hollywood cred…this made her zealous because she wanted to bestow that cred on her own predilections, onto someone, let’s say, she had a fetish for…She was defensive about having to see me rise by my own labors and exploit their fruits through my professional conduct with the NAVY…She targeted me…she just had to convince others what she was doing was right…even though my conduct was honorable even towards her person…So, my connection to this dynamic is not really about National Defense…I was a part of National Defense and I was good…My relation to this material is that it is all about an internal affairs breakdown and a lack of inter-disciplinary measures…That can sometimes gets blown up way out of proportion…As you are now witness to…You see, I outranked her, I was older then her, I was more fit then her, and had a lot going for me BEFORE I entered the NAVY…but I wouldn’t get on my knees like she was inclined to…And it became about favors at that point, not rank or even about UCMJ. I told the truth about the situation but the brass went with her preference…because she was female, which was against UCMJ code…and she apparently had a black fetish.
From 1999 I’ve watched the continuation of her little saga with a front row seat…watchin’ it get worse and worse…because that is what happens when discipline fails…and when some little rotten person gets into positions of influence…they rot out the core…Luckily I had the logic to see how when those who break the laws, but get away with it, are equated as “equals” to those who abide by them, well, things will fall apart and go ta seed. That’s something the United States Constitution taught me…Unfortunately it’s the United States, MY United States, which I invested so dearly in, that’s goin’ there.

P.S. Don’t worry. I converted to Christianity long ago.
P.P.S. What does this have to do with article, anyway?

18. seansarto:
Oh yeah, an’ one other thing,…This is the important bit…The welfare crowd is how Hollywood gets it’s greatest return on investments…People with nothing better to do…The peasantry surrounding the castles (Go to LA)…Giving this peasantry more money is basically laundering dirty cash, (selling out American properties and legacies to other nations), through what have become the artifices of legitimate government offices…Offices with a broad tax-base to maintain their security…By doing this they receive “interest” on those investments through “social validation”…a “trust”, an “affirmation”…which reinforces the insular aspects of that broad tax-base, (basically the military and policing agencies protections),while still retaining the wealth of resources right back in their pockets…But now it’s all shiny an’ clean smelling…It’s not like that peasantry is going to do anything more then just buy more movies and entertainment products anyways…They’ll just re-enforce the idolization and demand more cosmopolitan representation in those markets…Which is the essence of their claims of racism…and therefore Hollywood’s bottom line.
An’ to the Hollywood scum, who are the predators of young minds…It’s excess success anyways..(after the 7th house an’ 6th wife, most of them get listless an’ bored)..Is it their fault that a sucker’s born every minute?

huh?

from the cover blurb:

D’Souza contects that the cultural left is responsible for 9/11 in two ways: by fostering a decadent and depraved American culture that angers and repulses other societies – especially traditional and religious ones – and by promoting, at home and abroad, an anti-American attitude that blames America for all the problems of the world.