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Episode 79: I'm Like... Eh
This week, after briefly giving the spotlight to E3, Inside Out, Jurassic World, that polarizing Game of Thrones finale, and more!
Listen to the Episode 79 here!
Listen to the Episode 79 here!
Episode 78: Red Dragon
On this episode, we discuss the incredible Flash finale, lackluster Arrow finale, Hannibal's imminent arrival, and more!
Listen to the Episode 78 here!
Listen to the Episode 78 here!
Episode 77: Mad Men Special
Another cornerstone AMC series has come to a close, and we have just the group of people to help you come to terms and understanding with the end of Mad Men. Listen to the Mad Men Special here!
Episode 76: Clockstoppers
After quite a long hiatus, and technical difficulties, we are back! We discuss Age Of Ultron, two rounds of our tournament, Suicide Squad, the Joker, and more! It's a fun-filled episode with two guests, so enjoy! Listen to Episode 76 here!
Episode 75: All the Trailers
We have a jam packed episode of The Hollywood Huddle for you guys these week. On top of discussing the SIX trailers released in the past two weeks, we have two tournament rounds to settle, Sean has seen Unfriended, and more! Listen to Episode 75 here!
Episode 74: Thanks For Talking Brennan
On this week's episode we have a superhero debate with a twist at the end, Sean discusses Bloodline, and most of us have seen Furious 7! Listen to Episode 74 here!
Episode 73: Birthday Betsy
On this week's episode we go in depth about some of the news we missed on our two weeks off, as well as impressions on Flash and Arrow this season, and we have two tournament rounds! Listen to Episode 73 here!
Episode 72: Adult Nick
We have a super-sized episode for you guys! Why is that you ask? Well we have a total of five voices! Too much you say? That's for you to decide while we debate the next round of our tournament while covering the news! Listen to Episode 72 here!
Episode 71: Magic Bathtub
This week's episode brings with it a brand new tournament, Ghostbusters news, a new Tomorrowland trailer, and we bring back an old segment! Listen to Episode 71 here!
Episode 70: Off Topic Matt
This week we have a new guest! With him, we discuss the Parks & Rec finale, brief thoughts of House of Cards so far, the next tournament battle, and more! Listen to Episode 70 here!
Episode 69: Sex Jokes
This thing called The Oscars just happened, so that's the main top of discussion of this week. On top of that we fly through a few pieces of news, as well as discuss two of the biggest blockbusters currently in theaters. Listen to Episode 69 here!
Episode 68: Welcome Home
On this week's episode, there's a big homecoming, we give Oscar predictions, and Sean has seen some stuff. Enjoy! Listen to Episode 68 here!
Episode 67: But Then We Died
There was this thing called the Super Bowl, and with it comes trailers! We spend most of our time discussing the big trailers of the Super Bowl, as well as touching upon the new Game of Thrones trailer, with more sprinkled in! Listen to Episode 67 here!
Episode 66: Fantastic Flop
We're back! After a good-sized break, we are back! This time, we have our editor in person, Tim himself! We talk about the new Fantastic Four Teaser, Avengers trailer, Ghostbusters 3, Chris Pratt's popularity, and more! Listen to Episode 66 here!
Episode 65: Thrilling Trilogy Conclusion
This week, we discuss the best TV of 2014! On top of that, we have plenty of trailer reactions, Golden Globe thoughts, and we finish out our Trilogy Tournament. Listen to Episode 65 here!
Episode 64: Year in Review- Movie Edition
This episode of the podcast is all about what the title suggests. We save next week for the TV stuff, because this week it's all movies. We talk about our favorites in a variety of categories, and answer some of Sean's trivia. Listen to Episode 64 here!
Episode 63: Secretly Eighty
What's up this week? We talking about The Interview, The Hobbit and being against CGI in general, Star Trek, and the second to last trilogy battle! Listen to Episode 63 here!
Episode 62: It's Thursday Somewhere
Welcome to Episode 62! We have a big returning name for the week: the mighty Amanda Storey! What do we talk about? Well Sean has seen a TON of movies, Nick has seen the Hobbit, I've paid close attention to the Spidey rumors, and Amanda has also seen more movies than she's used to. So we have a good amount to talk about, hope you enjoy! Listen to Episode 62 here!
Episode 61: Unstoppable Michael Bay
On this week's Hollywood Huddle, we talk about the Terminator trailer, Suicide Squad casting, Marvel Netflix casting, and the big 007 news! Listen to Episode 61 here!
Episode 60: Trailer Week
So, those trailer huh? Obviously, we talk about the two big trailers of the week, The Walking Dead finale, another trilogy battle, and more! Listen to Episode 60 here!
Episode 59: Toy Story Vs. Star Wars
What's up on this week's Hollywood Huddle? Well for starters there is our hardest trilogy battle yet, we discuss Mockingjay, Luther news, and more! Listen to Episode 59 here!
Episode 58: Space Library
After a week off, we are back with a brand new episode! This one's a big one too. Our guest Alex Ewing helps us talk about things like Interstellar, another look at the Bourne series, the new Evil Dead show, Toy Story 4, Fantastic Four, two trilogy battles, and more! So strap in! Listen to Episode 58 here!
Episode 57: This is a Trailer
This week we tell you guys all about Marvel's Phase 3 (Obviously), talk about the new Marco Polo trailer from Netflix, the new MTV show Scream, an epic Lord of The Rings and Godfather showdown, and more. So strap in! Listen to Episode 57 here!
Episode 56: Bourne To Die Hard
What do we have for you this week? We talk Doctor Strange casting, Age Of Ultron trailer reactions, Birdman, DC news, and more! It's been a very comic book movie news month. Enjoy! Listen to Episode 56 here!
Episode 55: Civil War
There's been a major bomb of comic book movie information dropped! Good thing we are here to cover it. No worries though, we cover other things from new trailers, Netflix additions, and also Terminator Vs. Alien. Listen to Episode 55 here!
Episode 54: Another Pity Point
We have to guests on this week! We discuss the Spidey rumors, The Walking Dead, Warner Brother's Stupidity, and more! Make sure to stick around after Housekeeping for a special segment. Listen to Episode 54 here!
Episode 53: Partners For Life For Life
We have a brand new guest on this week! What does he help us talk about? Gotham, Star Wars Vs. Indiana Jones, Gone Girl, new trailer reactions, and more! Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. Listen to Episode 53 here!
Episode 52: Awful Segways
What's on the table this week? We have another trilogy match up, we talk about The Equalizer, discuss the possibility of Avengers 3 being two movies, and more! Listen to Episode 52 here!
Episode 51: Spidey Vs. Bats
We continue our weekly trilogy tournament with a monumental match-up! On top of that Sean & Rob give us the low down on Tusk, and we touch up on the big news of the week! Listen to Episode 51 here!
Podcrawl Special: AvP - Requiem
This week we have a special episode of Hollywood Huddle! That's right, it's part of the Alien & Predator Podcrawl 2014. The movie we will be discussing? None other than Alien Vs. Predator of course. On top of that, we will have another special episode on Sunday for the second AvP movie, so we hope you enjoy. Listen to the Podcrawl Episode here!
Episode 50 (Podcrawl Edition): Alien Vs. Predator Vs. Dutch
This week we have a special episode of Hollywood Huddle! That's right, it's part of the Alien & Predator Podcrawl 2014. The movie we will be discussing? None other than Alien Vs. Predator of course. On top of that, we will have another special episode on Sunday for the second AvP movie, so we hope you enjoy. Listen to Episode 50 here!
Episode 49: Pun Points
Better late then never, am I right? On this week's show we talked about Batman and his animated series, that HIMYM ending, Shazam, some big Arrow casting, and we tease Hollywood's Huddle involvement in an event spanning several different podcasts! So all in all, be pumped! Listen to Episode 49 here!
Episode 48: A Sequel and Ten Prequels
What is it we discuss this week? Well, for one there is some Sin City talk. On top of that we discuss Doctor Who, Dark Knight Rises, some news, and some Emmy Predictions (Were we right?). Listen to Episode 48 here!
Episode 47: Unconfirmed Title
Another week, another Huddle! Things discussed? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Leftovers, Masters of Sex, and more! Listen to Episode 47 here!
Episode 46: Carpe Diem
We have a giant handful of Hollywood Huddle for you guys this week! We talk about a lot, including the Superhero Oversaturation talk (never gets old), True Detective casting, some other news, and the loss of a Legend. Listen to Episode 46 here!
Episode 45: Things Are Gonna Get Better
The crew is back together for a brand new episode! Main topic of discussion is about what's on everyone's mind. That's right. You guessed it. Guardians of the Galaxy! Don't worry though, because on top of that, we have plenty of news to talk about, and plenty of trailer impressions. Listen to the Episode 45 here!
Hollywood Huddle Goes To Comic-Con
What do we have for you this week? Well, among other topics and news, we discuss the new Apes movie, Nick has finally seen Pacific Rim, and Emmy Nominations were announced! Listen to the Comic-Con Episode here!
Episode 44: Take Two
What do we have for you this week? Well, among other topics and news, we discuss the new Apes movie, Nick has finally seen Pacific Rim, and Emmy Nominations were announced! Listen to Episode 44 here!
Episode 43: One Year!
Can you believe it's been a year? An entire year of Hollywood Huddle. It's a good thing we are ready to celebrate in style with two returning faces that long time listeners should recognize! On top of quickly covering the latest news, we dive into some good discussions about The Cornetto Trilogy, reading Scripts early (we're looking at you Doctor Who), and more! Listen to Episode 43 here!
Episode 42: Shredding Sean
Not too much news to talk about this week, but the two main things we talks about are Snowpiercer and our favorite picks within the last year in TV. May not seem like a lot, but it is! We hope you enjoy this weeks Huddle! Listen to Episode 42 here!
Episode 41: Link Roulette
Sorry for the late arrival, but episode 41 is here! Lots of future movie releases are discussed, as well as a potential power play by Marvel, lots of Netflix happenings, The Flash Pilot, and more! So sit back and relax, and enjoy. Listen to Episode 41 here!
Episode 40: And With That
You guys ready for episode 40? I hope so because we have TONS to talk about. We've all watched several movies, and have plenty of news to inform you guys about. Among the things discussed are plenty of Marvel and DC news, Game of Thrones, Orange Is The New Black, a push for video game movie adaptions, and more! So enjoy this weeks Huddle! Listen to Episode 40 here!
Episode 39: Greeks and Windex
It's been a big week for Marvel, for the worse. So we touch upon the happenings over there, as well as several new trailer impressions, Dawn of Justice, Hannibal, Mad Men, and more! So come on over and enjoy! Listen to Episode 39 here!
Episode 38: Tony Stark Is A Princess
It's been a big week for Marvel, for the worse. So we touch upon the happenings over there, as well as several new trailer impressions, Dawn of Justice, Hannibal, Mad Men, and more! So come on over and enjoy! Listen to Episode 38 here!
Episode 37: Godzilla!
Now that everyone on the podcast has seen Godzilla, we can all discuss it freely! On top of that, we give our thoughts on the new Batsuit, new picked up shows, and more. So come join this week's Huddle! Listen to Episode 37 here!
Episode 36: Carl!
It's been a busy week in the world of Television, and we are here with all of the renewals and cancelations, as heartbreaking and heartwarming as they can be! On top of that, two of us have seen Godzilla, two franchises are getting reboots, and there's a new Apes trailer! Listen to Episode 36 here!
Episode 35: Don't Spoil It For Yourself
The main portion of our show is all about our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! His new movie to be specific. On top of that, we touch upon other big news stories from a Galaxy far far away, as well as exciting things coming up. So enjoy! Listen to Episode 35 here!
Episode 34: Pokemon On The Walls
We're back this week with our new Regular Sean (Remember him?) and a sadly abbreviated episode. But that's not to say we don't have plenty to say. We are talking about the Justice League movie, a live production of Grease, House of Cards production news, The Hobbit, and more! So enjoy =D Listen to Episode 34 here!
Episode 33: That Wedding Though
Welcome back to another episode of The Hollywood Huddle! Lavender is in in the details as we have a lot of Game of Thrones discussion, amongst other happenings within the week! Listen to Episode 33 here!
Episode 32: Winter Soldier Post Mortem
We are still alive you guys! We are here to bring you our in depth thoughts for Captain America: The Winter Solider, as well as touching up on other parts of Marvel's universe and it's future movies. We also have a little bit of news thrown in there as well. We hope you enjoy! We are glad to be back! Listen to Episode 32 here!
Episode 31: Spoiler Alert
Laura joins us for the second time for another fun filled episode! We talk about the great stuff we did in our weeks off, as well as all the great moments we witnessed. On top of that we have some late Oscars talk, and some Star Wars Episode VII Casting News! Listen Here!
Episode 30: Threw Her Under The Bus
It's our 30th episode! This time we have two wonderful guests, and with them they bring unpopular Breaking Bad opinions and spoiler free House of Cards talk. On top of that we have good discussions about sequels, Heroes, and more! So welcome, to the Hollywood Huddle. Listen Here For HH Ep. 30
Episode 29: Alienating Our Benjamin Buttons
This week we talk about Sony's Uncharted movie, a lack of Will Smith, Avengers, Gotham, and more! Let's not forget how I rave about that shot at the end of that latest True Detective. Listen Here For HH Ep. 29
Episode 28: Hoffman
What's on the plate this week? We discuss the very sad passing of the great Phillip Seymour Hoffman, new Marvel movie announcements, our thoughts on the Superbowl, and more! So give us a listen why don't ya? Listen Here For HH Ep. 28
Episode 27: Claire 1 & Claire 2
Paradoxes are created this week as we have two Claire's on the show this week! What is it we discuss? Well we have all seen some great things within the past week, there some exiting TV news, we touch upon the new Peter Pan movie, and even get into a spoilery conversation about Arrow. All in all, you could say it's a fantastic episode. Listen Here For HH Ep. 27
Episode 26: Marco! Polo!
This week on the Hollywood Huddle the original gang is back together, and we discuss TV news ranging from Justified's end date to FX's new comedy endeavors. In the movie corner we talk about the big news involving Batman-Superman & some new 2017 releases. That's not to mention our discussion on the hardest aspect of a character to portray in storytelling. Think that's everything? Well, clearly you haven't listened to us enough. Listen Here For HH Ep. 26
Episode 25: Amanda?
Welcome to our 25th episode of the Hollywood Huddle! That means we are 25% of the way to syndication! Either way, this week we discuss how the Globes went, new details on Gotham, and discuss Fox's declaration of the end of pilot season. Entertaining stuff, I assure you. Listen Here for HH Ep. 25
Episode 24: Paragon Of Awkwardness
Welcome to the 24th weekly Hollywood Huddle! Tony Mendiola joins us this week, and with him we discuss all of our Golden Globe picks. On top of that, well let's just say we discuss a broad range of movies and television, all in a 50 minutes timespan. So sit back, and enjoy! Listen Here for HH Ep. 24
Episode 23: Reflection
After two weeks off, we are finally back just in time for 2014. I figured we should start the year off right. I'm joined by Nick, Amanda, and our guest Sean Hillary where we reflect on our favorite things throughout 2013. This includes our top TV Shows, Movies, and just moments in general. So sit back and reflection with us on everything good and bad from 2013!
P.S. This is Russ, and I am saddened to say I forgot one of my favorite scenes from the year in the podcast. That scene is one of the final scenes in the season 3 finale of Homeland. If you watch the show, you'll know what I'm talking about. It was so emotionally strong, and horrifying to watch. Listen Here for HH Ep. 23
P.S. This is Russ, and I am saddened to say I forgot one of my favorite scenes from the year in the podcast. That scene is one of the final scenes in the season 3 finale of Homeland. If you watch the show, you'll know what I'm talking about. It was so emotionally strong, and horrifying to watch. Listen Here for HH Ep. 23
Episode 22: Let It Happen
This week we are joined again by Tony, who helps us deliver our most organic opening yet! We discuss Plenty of Netflix news, Catching Fire, Wonder Woman, and how Tony thinks Superhero movies could be better. You think that's all? Ha. You've clearly never listen to an episode. So just sit back, press play, and let it happen. Listen Here for HH Ep. 22
Episode 21: Like
Tony Mendiola joins us for an exciting fun filled episode of Hollywood Huddle where we make our first attempt at playing a game on air. Does it turn out well? Guess you'll have to find out. Other than that, we discuss things such as Oscar Contenders, Frozen, and Christmas Movies. What could be better? Absolutely nothing. Listen Here for HH Ep. 21
Episode 20: Call In
It's the big 2-0! Twenty weeks you have listened to us, and we couldn't be more Thankful, which is ironic it being Thanksgiving week! What do we have in store for you this week? We have another brand new guest from the Mu class in LKT, it's the one and only Betsy! We talk about Doctor Who, Christopher Nolan, Hunger Games, and we even have a Call-In! So sit back, or do whatever it is you are doing, and enjoy the 20th Hollywood Huddle! Listen Here For HH Ep. 20
Episode 19: Penny & Chip
Our awesome guest this week is Laura Gede, and she helps bring some pretty interesting conversations to the table? What does that include? Well it involves Cereal, Firefly, and Imaginary Friends. Interesting? You're god damn right it is. On top of that, we discuss more Marvel, The Walking Dead Prequel, How I Met Your Dad, and more! To say the least, it's a pretty entertaining episode. Get ready for another Huddle. Listen Here For HH Ep. 19
Episode 18: TheBomb.edu
Another week, another Huddle! Darcy and Amanda provide a jolt of banter humor in this week's episode, leaving Russ to wonder what it is they are constantly laughing at. But that aside, we discuss things such as then end of Blockbuster, a possible Hunger Games Theme park, and the Marvel/DC television explosion. Listen Here For HH Ep. 18
Episode 17: What's The Secret?
Hello, and welcome to another week of The Hollywood Huddle Podcast! This is Darcy's first stunt as a regular on the show, so I hope she is able to please you listeners. Also, this week's episode has a secret element to it. Can you guess it? Listen Here For HH Ep. 17
Episode 16: Too Soon?
We have an exciting episode for you guys this week. In fact, not all of us make it past this episode. Do I have your attention? I hope so. Dig in, and enjoy! Listen Here For HH Ep. 16
Episode 15: So Good It's Supernatural
I know a week without us was tough, but we are back in full stride this week with plenty of fun and discussion! What do you talk about you ask? Well, we touch upon Marvel's TV Bombshell, Jurassic Park World Casting, a new Netflix show, and lost Doctor Who Episodes. You think that's all? You should know better. Listen Here For HH Ep. 15
Episode 14: Keep It That Way
You'll never guess what comes up in this week's conversation? I know, you'd never guess it, but it's Comic Book Movie discussion again! However, that is not all that's talked about. 2015 gets even more crowded, and Russ updates everyone on all the latest TV renewals and cancellations. Are you ready? Listen Here for HH Ep. 14
Special Breaking Bad Finale Reflection Episode
I'm very glad to be able to bring to everyone a special, completely spoiler filled, hour-long Hollywood Huddle episode on everything Breaking Bad. We go in depth on how well we thought the series final gave justice to the show and it's characters, while reminiscing along the way. For all of you Breaking Bad fans, this is an episode you cannot miss. Listen Here!
Episode 13: Positive Environment
This week we have a blast discussing things like massive scientific breakthroughs that we only dreamed would happen, and getting in depth as to why we connect to fictional characters the way we do. Did I mention the one and only Jon Zucker joins us this week? Who is that you ask? Well I guess you'll have to tune and find out! Listen Here for HH Ep. 13
Episode 12: I Am The Danger
Guess who has her triumphant return this week? Amanda Storey her self! What does she bring to the table? You'll have to listen to find out, while we talk about being consumed with FX, YouTube as a quality platform, among other news stories. So press play and enjoy! Listen Here for HH Ep. 12
Episode 11: There Are Two Of Them
You guys ready for another fun week of the Hollywood Huddle? Our guest Duncan joins us to talk about the new Harry Potter film series, and the new Walking Dead spin-off show. On top of that, we touch upon the AMC spinoff show Better Caul Saul and Jurassic Park 4. So you really have no excuse to miss this episode. Listen Here for HH Ep. 11
Episode 10: Claire Got Lei'd
It's our first week recording in the same room! Can we survive each other's company? Tennis balls will fly. That's not the point however. This week we have some interesting conversations involving Ms. Marvel, why actors are revered in our culture, A unique twist to the Sherlock mythos, and some early fall TV impressions from yours truly. Think that's all? Well you're sadly mistaken, since you'd be forgetting about Darcy's Juggling skills. Listen Here for HH Ep. 10
Episode 9: That's Not French
Is Pixar going downhill fast? Is the Governor doomed? Can you imagine a modern day Les Miserables? Will Matt Damon be Bourne Again? Are unpopular opinions healthy? Are we recording in a cave? These are just a few of the questions we will be discussing on this week's exciting episode. Did I mention the awesome Darcy Shull joins us? You can't miss it! Listen Here for HH Ep. 9
Episode 8: Think Of The Children
Unless you have been living under a rock, you will have realized that the internet broke over the past week. Why? Well, Batman being cast will do that. But don't think Batfleck is all we talk about. There is also plenty of Marvel news discussed, including Ultron speculation. Among other movie news, we have a lengthy discussion on Spectacular Now since we have all seen it (or at least most of us). So come join in on the fun! Listen Here for HH Ep. 8
Episode 7: No Wi-Fi At Hogwarts
In this week's episode, we discuss broadway film adaptions, discover the one flaw of Hogwarts, and converse over some movies news. Plus Amanda watched "I Survived BTK", while Claire saw "Jobs" and Russ saw "Kick Ass 2", "The Conjuring" and "Shaun of the Dead". While Nick still hasn't seen anything (Dammit Nick, get your s*** together). Come join the discussion! Listen Here for HH Ep. 7
Episode 6: Milheim Takes Manhattan
It was a rather slow news week, but we were able to scavenge something's up to discuss and inform you guys about. On top of that, Russ discusses his incredible week, Nick has us talk about remakes and originality in Hollywood, Claire tells us about actors getting stuck in high profile roles, and Amanda gets cut off at least twice by each of us. Did I mention there's more?Listen Here for HH Ep. 6
Episode 5: One Podcast, Under Heisenberg
We have an exciting new podcast this week! Things discussed? The new Doctor, the importance of music in Film & TV, Avatar sequels, and Batman casting rumors among other things. Also, we would like to apologize for Amanda dropping her mic into the toilet at near the end of the podcast. Good thing she has a new one on the way! Listen Here for HH Ep. 5
Episode 4: Homeless Podcast
On this week's episode we have a heated conversation about the Emmy's as well as touching upon Gullibility and Hollywood Hoaxes. Now the conversation doesn't end there. We bring to light the awesome website that is HSX.com (Hollywood Stock Exchange) and mention news relating to Star Wars and SNL. You think that's it? You couldn't be more wrong. Listen Here for HH Ep. 4
Episode 3: A Moment of Ecstacy
Comic-Con just finished up, and that means we have a massive episode for you to feast your ears on. Russ, Nick, Claire, and our guest Richard talk about a variety of news straight from Comic-Con 2013. Things discussed include lots of general TV talk, Comic-Con footage reactions, plenty of Marvel & DC, and more! So sit back and enjoy, and see if you can figure out where Claire disappears to in the last half of the podcast. Listen Here for HH Ep. 3
Episode 2: Yuh Boob Hater
In this week's episode, we are jam packed with discussion! We talk about things ranging from our impressions on three different new shows, Netflix's unique distribution, the saddest Box Office Report ever, and more! Listen here for HH Ep. 2
Episode 1: Haters to the Left
Now, what should you expect from our first ever outing? Well, first you gotta get to know the four enthusiastic personalities that will be providing you with your weekly doses of Hollywood entertainment. Then, we get down and dirty discussing topics like, but not limited to: a possible Doctor Who gender/race change, the over-saturation of superhero movies, and what was wrong with Man of Steel. Sounds exciting right? Well, that's because it is. Listen here for HH Ep. 1
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Redden Willing To Take Less To Stay With Ottawa
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from the Ottawa Sun,
"I would feel real good leaving next year and see them win the Stanley Cup," he said, sarcastically.
So, with that in mind, Redden admitted to Sun Media he would consider taking a pay cut from his current $6.5 million salary to stay….
Redden has no idea how much he's willing to leave on the table to stay and be a part of what is going on here. He'll have to talk to Meehan about that, he said. But that should be encouragement enough for Senators GM Bryan Murray to be proactive—as he has been so far—to keep Redden.
Update 12:42pm ET: (Alanah) Some Senators/Redden salary cap math from Mike Chen a few days ago.
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Liberating Ourselves
The Bush administration originally sold the Iraq War to the public, Congress, and the world with two propaganda packages appealing respectively to fear and hope. One drew a horrifying picture of The Disastrous Consequences of Inaction in Iraq; the other depicted The Bright Promise of Victory in Iraq. Everyone remembers the absurd predictions, false promises, and outright lies these packages contained.
Today both have been totally discredited by events. The president, administration officials, and loyal supporters in the Congress and media spin the ongoing disaster in Iraq and looming one in Iran as signs of coming victory, but only true believers are convinced. With rebellion rising even among Republicans and control of Congress in jeopardy, the president is touring the country with a series of speeches designed to refurbish the old propaganda of fear. This newest package, The Disastrous Consequences of Failure in Iraq, seeks to terrify the public, mobilize the base, and vilify the opposition by portraying worse disasters sure to arise should cowardly, cut-and-run Democrats cause America to fail.
It should be easy for opponents of the war to refute this fear-mongering campaign with The Disastrous Consequences of Staying the Course. Though any such exertion comes hard to a divided party with its so-called moderates pulling in the opposite direction, the evidence showing the current campaign to be as illegitimate and self-deluding as the original pro-war campaign is overwhelming. But such a counterattack, though necessary, will not defeat the White House's strategy by itself and could even play into its hands.
The reasons are simple. Like other Bush-Cheney ploys, this one is not designed to educate or persuade rationally but to arouse and exploit patriotic emotion. Any counterargument, however solidly grounded in logic and evidence, will be politically and emotionally distasteful to many voters. Moreover, Americans want not merely to be warned of impending disaster but also to be told how it can be averted. To Republican true believers, "Stay the course" still represents the answer, simplistic and delusional though it is, while the majority skeptical about this answer demand something positive in its place.
The Republican electoral strategy thus rests on two pillars: on Bush's reported private quip during the 2004 campaign, "You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you have to concentrate on," while keeping the rest distracted, divided, and on the defensive; and on the opposition party's tearing itself apart trying to devise a positive alternative policy, with some leaders, including Hillary Clinton, still endorsing John Kerry's message in 2004, The Bright Promise of Letting Us Handle Iraq Better. This approach, now even more than in 2004, will divide the Democrats, confuse the public, and fail to rally supporters. Worse still, it would continue to obscure the central point and the first critical requirement for any solution in Iraq or progress toward one: that the current American venture has decisively failed, cannot be rescued or reformed, and must be abandoned.
This essay proposes an answer to this problem—not to the tactical electoral dilemma faced by the Democratic Party but to the policy dilemma faced by the country, an answer not offered by either party and almost certain to be denounced and repudiated by both. By frankly acknowledging failure in Iraq and acting quickly, decisively, and prudently on that recognition, the U.S. not only could avoid further disasters there but might also achieve a kind of success. Call it The Bright Promise of Accepting Failure in Iraq.
Be warned: the success to be described bears no resemblance to the glowing predictions made by neoconservative hawks before the war. Participating in their game of false promises and self-delusion would mean violating the most critical requirement for any ultimate success for American policy in Iraq and elsewhere—that Americans get over their habit of spreading and believing comforting lies. The main weapon for opponents of this war and this policy must be ruthless honesty, and the great strength of that weapon now is that the war's proponents cannot use it. Therefore I begin by admitting, indeed insisting, that the light that could be kindled by accepting failure in Iraq resembles a flashlight with limited battery life rather than a locomotive headlight. But like a flashlight in a dark cave, it may be bright enough to show the way out.
It is idle to discuss the administration's refusal to recognize failure in Iraq and its insistence on the goal of victory as if this represented a serious military strategy or foreign-policy plan. "Victory" is not really defined and cannot be. Virtually all the concrete goals of the original Bright Promise of Victory in Iraq propaganda have already been tacitly abandoned and are no longer mentioned. The "success" talked about is not merely indefinable and unattainable but incoherent as a concept. The ends sought are self-contradictory and incompatible with the means used to attain them. All this could be demonstrated at length, accomplishing nothing but to further the administration's purposes of distraction and obfuscation. For the denial of failure and insistence on pursuing victory, insofar as it is a product of something more than pure fantasy, is not designed for military and foreign-policy purposes but for domestic politics, especially the 2006 elections. There the strategy could succeed by limiting the Republican losses just enough to keep control of both houses, avoid the congressional investigations the administration dreads, and delay the final collapse in Iraq until after 2008, when the presumably victorious Democrats could be blamed for it.
The possibility of such a success rests on more than Rovian electoral wizardry. It exploits roots deep in the American heritage and character—the special difficulty many Americans have in coming to terms with limits in international politics, the feeling that admitting failure and wrong choices especially in wartime is un-American. Add to this the portrait the administration and a largely compliant press paint of what failure in Iraq would bring—civil war, chaos and radical Islam dominating the region, terrorism triumphant, Iran emboldened, Israel threatened, the oil supply imperiled or cut off, America humiliated, isolated, and impotent, and (the most dishonest but politically effective claim of all) the brave Americans killed or wounded in the fight for Iraqi freedom and American security betrayed. Against this lurid background Bush & Co. challenge the Democrats: if you are serious, show us your plan for meeting these dangers, solving these problems, and avoiding these disasters while getting us out of Iraq.
It is easy to show how absurd in logic and fact this demand is. It is like insisting that a man who shows you that your $100 bill is counterfeit owes you a real one, or—to use Molly Ivins's illustration—to argue that those who warned against hitting a hornet's nest with a stick must now, after the administration has done so and caused the hornets to swarm and attack everywhere, either propose a concrete plan for getting the hornets back into the nest or else join in efforts to kill them with the stick. Worst of all, the demand calls on others to solve the problem the Bush administration created while rejecting the fundamental condition for any solution, a recognition that wrong policy and failed leadership created the problem and that both must first be changed.
Yet outrageous as this tactic is, it may still work with many voters because making failure in war acceptable to Americans is like putting lipstick on a pig. That is the ungrateful task of this essay, and it requires a series of steps. First, I must show that the option of trying for success through acknowledging failure is the only rational chance to avoid further failure and worse disaster. Then that option must be made plausible and meaningful—plausible by seeing that this often happens in history as in ordinary life and meaningful through redefining and better understanding the nature of the contest and the meaning of victory or success.
The argument starts with two generalizations from history, obvious and familiar but often ignored. The first, that the worst disasters in history arise from a refusal to recognize and admit failure and deal with it, needs no proof. History is full of striking instances. Here is just one: the causes and factors that drove Germany deliberately to launch World War II and inflict unspeakable crimes on the world and on Germany itself were diverse and complicated, but one was basic—a refusal to admit that Germany had really lost World War I and must accept the consequences of defeat. Essentially, the German decision for war in 1939 was a decision to stay the course —to resume in a radical new form the effort of 1914-18 to make Germany dominant in Europe through military power. Similar instances from history could be cited almost ad infinitum.
The second generalization is also easy to document from history. Often—not always—a timely recognition of failure and the willingness to abandon or alter a wrong course leads in unexpected ways to success. Sometimes the change in course enables one to achieve the original aims by a different route; more often it leads to the discovery that the original goals were not that great or cost too much and that the country was actually better off with a different outcome—that sometimes one could win by losing.
American parochialism and the privileged, triumphant course of American history make this point hard for Americans to grasp. Yet in at least four major instances during the Cold War, the U.S. had to come to terms with failure, accept the consequences, and change course, sometimes by 180 degrees: Korea and the Korean War, China and the recognition of the Communist regime, Vietnam, and strategic parity with the USSR. In every case, accepting failure served to avoid further losses and potential disasters and led to an outcome different from what the U.S. was originally trying to achieve, but better. America would be worse off now had it won any of those contests in the way it originally tried to.
There is no mystery about why this happened to the United States as it has many times to other countries. A timely recognition of failure helps cut losses, stop rot, and cease wasting vital resources. It magnifies contradictions between goals and misfits between means and ends, helps us better understand the reasons for failure, and changes views of what outcomes may be acceptable. By admitting that one cannot solve the problem with the resources and methods one has, one may discover or create new, useful ones. Stop swimming upstream, and the current may carry you somewhere safe, if not to your original destination. Acknowledging that the problem is beyond your capacities may get you help—old or new allies and partners with common interests who cannot afford to let you entirely fail. A recognition that the way you are fighting the battle is making things worse may teach you that the struggle is not the kind you supposed it was and that there are better ways to fight it if necessary or to avoid it entirely—all simple lessons, but true, and these cases illustrate them.
The harder part is to show that this Bright Promise of Failure scenario can work in regard to Iraq and the Middle East and the struggle against terrorism. I offer no guarantees of success. Yogi Berra is right: it is always dangerous to prophesy, especially about the future. I also make no claim to expert knowledge of Middle East politics or access to intelligence. My expertise is as a historian, a bird that flies backward and knows where it has been better than where it is going. Oddly, however, my analysis and predictions on the Iraq War and the so-called Global War on Terror in articles published since 9/11, a good number in this journal, hold up better now than those of most of the supposed experts.
There is a reason for this. The main intellectual defect in current American foreign policy is the lack of any sense of history, particularly as the British historian Lewis B. Namier defined it: a trained intuitive sense of the way things do not happen. (How they actually happen depends on the evidence.) America's leaders and their advisers, including some so-called historians and political scientists, not only are ignorant of history and insensitive to it, they despise and repudiate it. Their favorite epithet for opponents is to accuse them of having a pre-9/11 mentality, of believing that history before September 2001 still tells us something.
Neither having a sense of history nor wanting one, their calculations and policies are thoroughly infected with that disease fatal for good policy, for which a sense of history is the best prophylactic and cure—utopianism. It is the blind optimism, the utopianism of this administration, along with its dishonesty, that accounts for its record of repeated promises and calculations that anyone with a sound historical sense could tell were not going to work. Their particular brand of utopianism, moreover, combines its two worst forms—a radical utopianism that believes that the evils to be fought are simple, readily identified, and easily capable of being rooted out and replaced with good, and the utopianism of Machtpolitik, the belief that with enough power resolutely applied one can do anything.
One requirement for reaping any profit from accepting failure in Iraq, then, is a clear anti-utopian sense of history, a willingness to recognize and respect limits and reject self-delusion—something any reasonably educated, sensible person can develop. It also helps if we avoid some natural but erroneous assumptions about what accepting failure in foreign policy involves. It is not simply a first preliminary step, a matter of seeing that you are in a hole and should stop digging. It involves a rigorous, active search for the deeper causes of failure and thus becomes a strategic maneuver, a way of seeking and creating conditions needed for climbing out of the hole.
Another natural assumption would be that harvesting success from failure requires a clear policy delineating the principles and steps that will lead from failure to success. Most Americans and a majority of observers worldwide recognize that staying the course to victory in Iraq is not a real policy and that recent proposals by neoconservatives to up the ante by attacking Syria and/or Iran and having the president declare that America is in World War III are certifiably insane. But thoughtful persons looking for a way out are confronted with at least four alternative lines of policy, each strongly advocated and all at least sane and intellectually defensible. These approaches can be broadly characterized as semi-isolationist/libertarian, realist balance-of-power, leftist-reformist, and internationalist or (misleadingly) Wilsonian. The differences between them are not trivial, and the debate over which is best is not inappropriate—except at this time when the critical issue is whether the country will face the fact of decisive failure in Iraq at all. On that score their differences make no real difference; advocates of all four of these approaches today agree on rejecting the current course and taking some initial steps for recovery and ultimate success. Disputes over the merits of these approaches at this point only confuse the public and help the administration and its neocon prophets to propose their nostrums as no-nonsense remedies.
Even more necessary than this "first things first" basis for consensus among opponents of the war is a better understanding of the nature of the broad global contest the U.S. is now engaged in and the definition of success in it. Nothing in this discussion so far suggests a good slogan for a bumper sticker or a banner in an antiwar demonstration. That is as it should be; international politics is too complicated for slogans, and the slogans of the simplifiers in the administration have contributed to the terrible mess they have made. But for understanding the nature of the contest, one slogan would fit: "It's Not a War, Stupid!"
Words are defenseless things. Any kind of struggle can be called a war—on drugs, poverty, crime, illiteracy—so long as one does not take the metaphor literally and wage the contest as if it really were a war. An NFL coach who urges his players to go to war with the opposing team does not expect them to start shooting. Yet Bush & Co. insist that all their campaigns—against al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Saddam Hussein's regime, the insurgency and sectarian violence in Iraq, Hamas and Hezbollah, terrorism in general, and potentially against Syria and Iran—are literally wars and all are against the same generic foe, terrorism; that America is under military attack; and that these enemies, all lumped together, must be fought primarily by military means.
This incessant beating of the war drum is enormously important. It has served as the main propaganda weapon for Republicans at the polls; the rationale for every expansion of executive authority now leading the country toward a constitutional crisis; the justification for every violation of international law; the cover for all the abuses, atrocities, and instances of collateral damage in civilian casualties and destruction attendant on military action; the excuse for massive expenditure, waste, and corruption; and the main weapon used to silence critics, vilify opponents, and cover up illegality, fraud, and incompetence in government. The insistence that America is at war, combined with a persistent refusal to pay for it or require sacrifices of most Americans, has contributed to a massive distortion of public spending, huge and growing deficits of every kind, a dangerous militarization of American thought and society, and the destruction of any sense of responsibility in both the government and the public.
Worst of all, the propaganda campaign has worked and is still working politically. Though a majority of Americans polled believe the wars on terror and in Iraq are not going well and now consider the war in Iraq a mistake or at least not worth its costs, few Americans, including opponents of the war in Iraq and Bush's general policy, doubt that 9/11 put America in a state of war, and most still believe that this war must be prosecuted and ended successfully, even if they cannot exactly define victory.
This belief that the United States is now genuinely in a state of war against terrorism, still the president's greatest electoral asset, represents at best massive misconception and confusion. The United States, along with many other major governments and advanced, orderly societies, is engaged in a struggle to defend the rule of law, order, and security at home and to sustain a decent international system abroad against irregular attacks and crimes by individuals, groups, and factions within various countries. This is therefore essentially a struggle of governments against a diverse assortment of criminal anti-government groups. Those who oppose terrorism and terrorist groups have a prime interest in promoting this view and in keeping as many governments as possible united and engaged in the struggle against terrorists as a legal international campaign against criminal enemies of all regular states and governments.
Proclaiming this a war and waging the struggle primarily by military means works concretely against this purpose and helps terrorists. The fact that terrorist leaders and groups may have declared war on the United States and other countries and carried out attacks against them makes no difference. They have a major interest in making this a war. It legitimizes them, ennobles their cause and their actions in the eyes of followers and sympathizers, gives them international stature, and lures opponents into the kinds of overreactions that delegitimize them, alienate their natural allies and the neutrals, and split the anti-terrorist governmental front.
A little history to illustrate: throughout the 19th century, conservative regimes in Europe, especially Austria and Russia, waged a mortal struggle against revolutionary groups and organizations. They hated and feared these enemies as much as Americans do terrorists today, and given the weakness of these regimes and the genuine threat revolution posed to them they had far better reason to do so. Their efforts to suppress revolution, often counterproductive and finally ending in failure, included the use of their armies at various times against revolutions at home or in allied regimes abroad. But they never made the blunder of justifying their repressive actions at home and abroad by saying they were at war with the revolutionaries. They knew that this would elevate the status of their foes, alienate friends and neutrals, and negate the strongest card in their hands—their claim to be enforcing law and defending civilization against international criminals.
This is not a matter of diplomatic-legal terminology or an academic distinction. The American insistence on calling its campaign against particular terrorists a Global War on Terror has gratuitously given its enemies an important victory in a struggle in which politics, image and propaganda are more than half the battle. The decision to attack Iraq, a state clearly no threat to the United States, multiplied that propaganda victory many times over, and the impression of America it created—that of a country ruthless and powerful in military conquest but incompetent and impotent in civic follow-up—has multiplied it again. Americans, led by their government, seem incapable of understanding that this worldwide contest is not a shootout at the OK Corral but judo. The object is not to eliminate the opponent but to unbalance and overthrow him, using his own offensive lunges to do so. Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, the Iraqi insurgents, even Saddam himself understood that, with the result that America, though incomparably stronger, has been thrown off balance far more than they.
This understanding of the contest as a long-term political, legal struggle to uphold the rule of law rather than a war, and judo rather than a gunfight, must also change the American definition of success. The administration, with most of the media and many voters in tow, has consistently defined victory in terms of missions supposedly accomplished, positive gains allegedly achieved. Time and again it has hailed particular triumphs as breakthroughs and turning points, proof that the U.S. is on the road to victory—military victories in Afghanistan and Iraq, installation of "friendly" regimes, introduction of "democratic" institutions and reforms, capture or killing of particular enemies, defeat of certain insurgent forces or risings, conduct of elections, adoption of constitutions, formation of a "permanent", "sovereign" government in Iraq, a roadmap for peace in Palestine, the death of Yasser Arafat and democratic elections in Palestine—only to have every glorious victory quickly turn to ashes in the mouths of the administration and its followers.
Why? Lack of planning, incompetence, poor intelligence, insufficient manpower, bad decisions, inexperience, unfamiliarity with an alien environment? Yes, all these and more, but the deeper reason for failure is a wrong concept of victory. In this contest, as in the 19th-century contest of legitimate regimes against revolution, victory cannot mean crushing the evil and establishing the reign of Freedom and Democracy throughout the world by glorious victories on the battlefield or elsewhere, but (in the words of Austria's Prince Metternich) outliving the evil. That is not compromise or surrender. It means ensuring that one's own values, institutions, and way of life survive and ultimately thrive while those who would overthrow them are gradually marginalized and ultimately die out. That is the only kind of victory in this contest America can achieve or should aspire to.
History does not repeat itself, but it does show repetitive patterns. In looking for clues from previous instances where Americans harvested success from acknowledged failure—the Korean War, Vietnam, recognition of Communist China, and accepting strategic parity with the Soviet Union—it makes sense to start with the assumptions behind the original policies that ultimately failed and had to be abandoned. In all four instances American policy rested initially on certain common assumptions: the threat being confronted was uniquely grave; failure to meet and defeat it now would have a domino effect, leading to its becoming steadily worse and potentially unstoppable; the danger could not be met by normal international politics but required either the direct application of military force or the possession of clear military superiority and willingness to use it as a deterrent; and finally, the U.S., if it acted with the necessary resolve, would bring most of the rest of the world into line with its action or at least deter others from opposing it, that the tide of history threatening to turn against America would thus be turned back in its favor, and that the defeat of this particular enemy on this particular front would decisively promote the ultimate victory of the good cause.
These assumptions were not obviously irrational, stupid, or cover for a hidden agenda. The North Korean invasion, regardless of its origins out of an emergent Korean civil war rather than a worldwide Communist offensive against the free world, was a serious military attack on an American ally and a threat to the American position in East Asia that needed to be met with force. Much of Southeast Asia did seem ripe for Communist takeover from Vietnam. The regime of Mao Zedong was one of the most revolutionary and ruthless in history. The USSR was a superpower with a tyrannical regime, oppressive empire, formidable military, and the nuclear power to destroy the world.
Yet after a half-century or less, these original assumptions can be seen and acknowledged as having been wrong—not dead wrong, wholly without foundation or excuse, but flawed, exaggerated, one-sided, and hence when used as the basis for policy destined to make things worse rather than better.
That recognition did not come automatically nor was it a precondition and cause of the reversal of policy. In all four instances what came first was a recognition that the task assigned America by its current policy—uniting Korea under American control, defeating the Viet Cong and preserving an independent anti-Communist pro-American South Vietnam, defending Taiwan as the legitimate government of mainland China, and denying the Soviet Union its status as a strategic equal with equivalent military power—was not feasible, that the goal was not attainable at any acceptable risk and cost. Only then did the majority of decision-makers and the general public begin seriously to question the assumptions on which the strategy of the impossible rested. Yet this recognition of failure and the resultant gradual changes in policy inevitably entailed and produced a change in thinking as well as in strategy and tactics—the kind of turnaround needed in America now.
In each instance, the U.S. gave up unachievable goals and settled for temporary, provisional, managerial solutions, truces, or standoffs; accepted or deliberately sought multilateral, negotiated outcomes based on compromise; and sometimes made major concessions to its opponents to reach them.
These were more than mere tactical moves forced by hostile pressure. They simultaneously produced and were accompanied by a change in thinking and approach. The U.S. government, in practice if not in overt proclamation or ideology, ceased viewing each particular danger primarily in global terms as part of an overarching worldwide threat and instead aimed to handle each as a local, limited challenge, isolating it where possible from the putative global contest, even where and when Americans believed that the global contest was real and serious. This enabled it consciously to induce divisions among its opponents and exploit these.
At the same time this shift enabled the U.S. to control and reduce its commitments to its subordinate allies, persuading or forcing them to make compromises, share or assume burdens and risks, and give up their particular goals in order to retain general American support. The South Korean regime had to abandon its goal of unifying Korea through American arms. Taiwan had to accept American recognition of its worst and most threatening foe as the legitimate government of China and ultimately of Taiwan itself. The South Vietnamese regime had to accept destruction. West Germany had to give up any prospect of German unification for the foreseeable future. In a sense, America made others pay the main price for the success it achieved by accepting failure.
Why did this work? Because once Americans woke up to the impossible character of their aims and the flaws in their basic assumptions, they cleverly adjusted themselves to reality and managed their problems with skill and moderation? Not mainly. It would do little to correct the radical utopianism of the Bush administration and its followers to encourage Americans to think that even if they cannot win simply by being militarily all-powerful, they can achieve whatever they want through clever and forceful diplomacy. The U.S. succeeded for a number of reasons that had little to do with its own power and skill and far more with favorable international conditions not under American control.
Our main opponents, though formidable and impossible to destroy or defeat by military force, were neither as powerful nor as stable internally nor as aggressive and revolutionary in their foreign- policy aims nor as incapable of compromise and coexistence as we supposed. In other words, normal international politics could work with them. Besides that, these opponents were less united than we imagined, more riven by internal rivalries and disputes they had to manage and the U.S. could exploit. In contrast, the U.S. had genuine partners rather than satellites, allies who were ready to help promote compromise solutions where they could not support the American quest for victory. As for our client states and those we defended, in all these cases save that of South Vietnam, they were not merely willing under pressure to accept the sacrifice of particular aims for general peace but in certain instances actually welcomed and co-operated with these aims (e.g., West Germany's promotion of détente and the Helsinki Accords in the 1970s and Japan's welcoming of the recognition of China). It was also important that on both sides governments were able and willing to control and marginalize their own extremists pushing for aggressive measures to achieve decisive victory over the enemy.
Most important, however, is the fact that this different approach changed the arena and rules of the contest from one that the U.S. could not win at any acceptable cost, and that its allies and friends did not want to fight, into one that the U.S. and its side of the world were far better suited to wage: a contest over what kind of government, society, economy, and politics was best at peaceful coexistence.
Critics insist that this is all old history, rendered obsolete by 9/11. What the U.S. now faces is a wholly different situation and array of foes—rogue regimes like Iran and North Korea, terrorist organizations with global reach immune to sanctions or pressure because they have no address or permanent interests to defend, the possibility of WMD being used by fanatical ideologues with purely destructive aims and suicidal followers deterred by no moral restraints or civilized codes. To talk of diplomatic strategies for dealing with these is the worst kind of self-delusion.
Most astonishing about this ubiquitous response is not the lack of historical sense it reveals but the absence of memory. Again allowing for changed circumstances, these arguments were used time and again, at even greater volume and with better reason, to argue the futility of dealing with the North Koreans, the Chinese, the Soviets, and the Vietnamese except by force. The extremist hawks were wrong then and they are wrong now. The global terrorist threat is no more real now than the global Communist threat was then. Terrorism is mostly concentrated on particular local and regional aims and directed against particular local enemies. The identifiable terrorist groups and organizations are fragmented and divided by serious fault lines and disagreements. Iran is hostile and verbally belligerent but tactically and strategically more concerned with its defense against the United States and Israel and its influence in the Shi'ite world than with holy war against infidels. Hamas and Hezbollah have particular goals; so does Syria. Everyone now recognizes—though Bush will never admit it—that the insurgents and resisters to the American occupation in Iraq are very much divided and often hostile toward each other. The point is not that they are harmless or should be ignored or pampered but that using the tactics of the gunfight against them only drives them together and increases their number, while combating them with judo would divide them and decrease their threat.
Above all, recognizing failure in Iraq means seeing not simply that the U.S. has not succeeded to this point but that it cannot ever succeed in what it set out to do by this war—supplant the regime of Saddam Hussein with a stable, democratic, friendly Iraq—because the strategy was fundamentally flawed, the execution worse, and the consequences by now such that anything American occupiers do, however well-intentioned, must make things worse. The longer America stays, the more it fuels the insurgency, the latent and growing civil war, the sectarian divisions, and the pervasive degradation of Iraq's civil society.
As to concrete steps for turning this situation around, I offer no blueprint. Few blueprints in history are ever followed or work when they are. The rule in statecraft and warfare is improvisation guided by a general goal. In this case the general goal, to turn accepting current failure into eventual success, requires more than simply an exit strategy. Certainly one is necessary and overdue, but it should be more than a way of getting Americans out of harm's way. Combined with other measures of strategic retreat, it can be a measure of active defense and offense, like apparently yielding to the opponent's lunge in order to throw him off balance for a countermove.
An even better way to understand America's task is to use a historical model full of relevance and potent lessons but so politically incorrect that neither party could embrace it and that those who would, chiefly radicals on the Left, would misuse it: to see the new policy as an attempt at successful disimperialism. Regardless of whether one considers the war in Iraq as continuing a longstanding American imperialist tradition or (as I do) a departure from America's main Cold War tradition, two conclusions are inescapable.
First, the Iraq War originated in an attempt at American informal empire in the Middle East and remains mired in it. When one powerful country invades and conquers a small, weak country thousands of miles away with a very different culture, language, history, religion, and society in order to replace its regime permanently with one resembling the occupier's own, change its economic structure, control its most important resource, and use it to dominate and change other regimes in the region, that is classic, unalloyed imperialism. To refuse to admit this and cover it up with transparent dodges of liberation, democratization, self-defense, and Global War on Terror is to indulge still further in the comforting lies that are ruining America's capacity for world leadership and even for democratic self-governance.
Second, that imperialist effort has failed disastrously, America's so-called unipolar moment is past, rotten before it was ripe, and the task before it now is disimperialism. Like Britain and France after World War II and the USSR after 1989, the goal has to be not merely to give up an untenable imperialist position but to do so in such a way as to protect vital interests, maintain a necessary position of leadership, and lay a new basis for eventual useful relations with the countries of the former or would-be empire.
That is bound to be a distasteful, delicate, and sometimes humiliating task, with many apparent setbacks and only long-range payoffs. But as history shows, it can be done, and there are at least some fairly concrete ways to approach it. The trick is making the decision to abandon the imperial venture clear and convincing to one's own people and the rest of the world (including opponents), while at the same time showing that this is a strategic decision dictated by good sense and done from strength, not the product of weakness, despair, or disorientation.
A good place to start is with the public renunciation of failed, misconceived, counterproductive policies. There are three obvious candidates, favorites of Bush and the neoconservatives.
The first is the administration's much trumpeted goal of transforming the Middle East through democratization, something impossible from outside, especially through military intervention and hostile pressure by the perceived main enemy of the region, and destabilizing and dangerous even where apparently successful. Political scientists and historians have long known that immature democracies are more unstable, aggressive, and war-prone than traditional regimes. Promoting democracy in Iraq has led to civil war and the nascent collapse of the country and in Palestine and Lebanon to greater power for radicals and terrorist groups.
The second is democratization's twin —promoting regime change, particularly by military force or support for dissidents. Where this fails, as it usually does —witness Cuba—it discredits both the U.S. and the dissidents; where it succeeds, as in Afghanistan, it generally promotes failed states and rule by warlords, militias, and rival factions. Both outcomes contradict the main U.S. interest in working with regular, stable governments against terrorism and violence.
The third is promoting Western values in the Arab-Muslim worlds by public diplomacy, in particular attempts to sell the American way of life and convince others that Americans are truly friends and protectors of Islam and can serve as honest brokers. This whole project only serves to make the U.S. look ridiculous and discredit the moderates in Islam who would like to adapt to modernity, thus aiding the radicals. What will it take to convince many Americans that much of the world currently hates and fears the U.S. not because of its values but because of its policies and actions and that the only way to change that perception is to change those?
This part is fairly easy, a matter of discarding useless baggage. The next, announcing a genuine change in policy in convincing fashion without making it appear an act of desperation, is trickier. But there are ways to approach it. One is to announce a clear general goal not subject to conditions or compromises—in this case, the entire removal of American armed forces from Iraq in the near future and a comprehensive review with all the host countries of the status of American forces and bases throughout the region with an eye to reducing them—accompanied by an offer to work out the timing of these moves with the other parties concerned, including the current Iraqi government and any successor ones. The purpose of this, of course, is to change the American military presence from being publicly an albatross around the necks of these governments and privately a crutch they lean on to something that, if they want it, they need to seek, compete for, and acknowledge.
Along with this open announcement of a change in course needs to go some striking symbolic action to make the announcement credible. Here is an obvious candidate: publicly scrap the plans for the billion-dollar-plus American Embassy/fortress-city in the heart of Baghdad and commit America unconditionally to no military bases, bastions, stationing agreements, or other ways of staying on militarily in Iraq.
An even better political action would be for the U.S. government to call now for an international conference under other auspices than our own to discuss how to deal with the now inevitable civil war in Iraq and the possible breakup of the state. The participants would have to include all Iraq's neighbors, including Iran, and all vitally interested outsiders besides the United States. The point would not be to achieve concrete results, which is unlikely; even getting such a conference convened would be a long shot. Instead, like these other moves, the effort would serve to prove that the U.S. genuinely recognizes the problems its intervention helped cause, wants to share the burden of meeting them with others, and is not trying to control the outcome unilaterally.
There are other ways in which the U.S. could, if it tried, turn a strategic retreat into pursuit of a different kind of victory by robbing enemies of their main pretexts for hostile propaganda and actions, dividing them among themselves, and helping those who have common interests with America to co-operate with or at least not oppose it. The common interests are obvious—opposition to terrorism, need for stability, equal access to the oil and gas of the region, worry about the ripple effects of civil war and sectarian violence—and the potential divisions and rivalries to take advantage of are equally so.
I do not believe that the strategy urged here will be adopted—certainly not by the current administration, probably not by any successor or any future electorate. The reason is not that such a policy would not work. As I have argued, on objective historical and practical grounds it would stand a reasonable chance. Nor is it that present American political conditions, habits, and institutions make it unthinkable. Though there is much more to this argument, it is just possible that crushing defeats for the Republicans in 2006 plus the accumulation of further bad news from the Middle East might deter the administration from more mad gambles to cover existing losses and might embolden the Democrats and the public to try something really different.
The insuperable, structural obstacle to a serious pursuit of success in the Middle East through accepting failure in Iraq, the elephant in the room that I have carefully avoided mentioning hitherto, is Israel. More precisely, it is not Israel itself or its actions, but the fact that the United States has deliberately forfeited control over its policy toward Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian and Arab-Israeli conflicts that form one critical aspect of the Middle East imbroglio. While the U.S. could conceivably change its policy and aims in regard to all its other vital aspects—Iraq, Iran, oil, regional security, even terrorism—I see no possibility that any party, administration, or American public will take the steps needed to regain that essential control.
Obviously this is not a subject that can be opened up, much less discussed here. I mention it solely in the interests of candor and to explain why this guardedly optimistic essay ends as a Cassandra cry. Perhaps better, it calls to mind Bismarck's parting words to the third Turkish delegate to the Congress of Berlin in 1878, a Congress that rescued the Ottoman Empire from part of its losses in revolts, crises, and wars in 1875-1878: "This is your last chance—and if I know you, you will not take it."
Paul W. Schroeder is professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Transformation of European Politics, 1765-1848.


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This 50 minute documentary film from Anthony Masterson takes in in-depth look at sustainable farming through the eyes of farmers from 12 different farms throughout Georgia.
Bring a picnic basket, a blanket and some friends to the Wildflower Meadow at Serenbe. Gates to the field will open at 7 p.m. and the movie will begin at 9 p.m. There will also be plenty to do before the movie such as sampling food from Westside Creamery ice cream and Blue Eyed Daisy. Plus, enjoy live music performed by Little Country Giants.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for kids nine and under. All proceeds will benefit Emergency Farmers Fund. To find out more about Serenbe check out our Summer Getaway Roundup!


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|The construction of the jacket was basically a rip-off of FantasySheep's one, since I agree with their interpretation. I just hadn't bothered to put in pockets because I was lazy.
The rest of the costume was charity shop + Primark's finest.
Next time I wear this I'll do the eye makeup differently.
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What to Do To Find the Best Financial Advisor
You will find that selecting an individual to work for you and handle all your money matters is very hard. It will be important for you to take some caution before you can hire an expert as most of them are just out there to make some money. You need to make sure that the person you have hired is ready to do a high-quality job and will put your interest first. Before you can begin your search for a financial advisor, it will be important to know the qualities you are looking for in one.
You need to really prepare yourself by really finding out what you are looking for. It will be good if you can write down the goals and objectives in advance and the reasons you are looking for a financial advisor. You also should have a list of questions ready for the advisor interviews. If you do not have the questions written down, you are likely to forget to ask some of the things you need to ask until the interview is over.
The other thing you will need to do is to make sure that there is no confusion of whether a person is a sales agent or a financial advisor. You need to make sure that you find the advisor who will seem like they are ready to help you achieve all of the goals you have set for coming up with a great plan. This professional should also be able to use any investment or insurance that is appropriate for you and your goals.
it will be important for you also to decide the kind of fees that you are comfortable paying. You will find that there are many ways of compensation, and you need to find the method that you will find to be comfortable for you. You will find that some professionals will ask to be paid a commission for every time they make a transaction for you regardless of how they performed. You will find that some other professionals will ask to be paid an annual fee depending on the amount of money they are handling. To make sure that you do not end up paying some excessive fees, you need to make sure that all the terms are agreed beforehand.
The important thing is that you do not depend on only the information you are getting from friends and family. You should keep in mind that the financial situations and personalities that people have are not the same Therefore, you should know that the financial advisor who was good for your friend will not necessarily be good for you.


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Horns by Joe Hill
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Loved the movie. Liked the book.
Like three and a half stars liked. It's one of those rare cases where I did like the movie more than the book. And not because Harry Potter was in it… Just sayin'.
So poor Ignatius Parrish…Lost his girlfriend in a murder, his job, is living at home…not to mention the people of the New Hampshire town of Gideon all seem to think he killed her. On top of that, he's growing these horns…
Like the devil. And these horns have power. People are compelled to tell him deep dark secrets of the rotten things they want to do, then ask for permission to do it. And should Ig touch someone, their whole life's story flashes in his brain, and Ig then knows every rotten thing they've ever done.
Unlike the devil, Ig tries doing the right thing by righting the wrongs he finds. But it seems he cannot be remembered, he cannot change the inner person…just suggest and they obey.
The book went into more details that the movie left out. They weren't wholly essential to the story, but it was good to finally have a few questions answered. I enjoyed 'seeing' the different perspectives of the characters and how they believed and thought. How Ig found the truth about his girlfriend, Merrin. It was as heartbreaking.
Overall, a good read. Not really scary nor nightmare inducing, but more food for thought type of tale. I'm glad to finally have read it though. Definitely worth a read, whether you've seen the movie or not.


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Tis the season for…The Crock pot!
When the Autumn season arrives it comes with its bursts of bright vibrant colours, much cooler weather and I begin to crave chili's, soups, stews, etc.This is the time of year when I dust off the ole crock pot and enjoy an array of delicious recipes. Did you know that using a crock pot saves … More Tis the season for…The Crock pot!


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Miley Cyrus Vancouver Tickets
The talented actress and sensational recording artist, Miley cyrus is soon coming to the city of Vancouver to perform live in a riveting live event. She enjoys a huge fan following that can be seen by the sold out crowds that she performs to. If you are a fan of hers or would like to be a part of a brilliant music extravaganza then this is an ideal opportunity for you to get hold of your Miley Cyrus Vancouver tickets and enjoy a thrilling event in Vancouver. Make sure you do not let go of this opportunity as the tickets are expected to sell out fats.
Miley Cyrus is all set to take Vancouver by storm. The phenomenal actress and singer who began her career in the entertainment industry with the series called Doc and a movie named Big Fish, rose to great fame as a teen idol when she was casted in the Hannah Montana Disney Channel series. In 2007, she signed a recording contract and released her debut album. The album was a major commercial success as it sold over three million copies in America. Her single, "See You Again" charted on the top ten single list of Billboard Hot 100. Soon after that she went on her first tour that was titled Best of Both Worlds. This tour of hers was adapted into a movie also. Miley, who enjoys a great fan following has been a hot favorite of entertainment magazines also. She is soon going to be coming Vancouver to perform live in an exciting event. You can now book your Miley Cyrus Vancouver tickets and be a part of a great live concert.
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Fort Sill is an active U.S. Army post just northwest of the city of Lawton, Kentucky. With a history that dates to the mid-19th century during the Indian Wars, Fort Sill serves as an air defense artillery and electronic warfare center. Situated in southern Oklahoma within 50 miles of the Oklahoma-Texas border, Fort Sill is served by four commercial airports within a 200-mile radius.
Lawton-Fort Sill Regional Airport
Lawton-Fort Sill Regional Airport is the closest commercial airport to Fort Sill, roughly 11 miles to the southeast. The airport, which is located in Lawton, has service from America Eagle, which connects nonstop to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The terminal features car rental services, a boutique shop, conference room, restaurant and free Wi-Fi throughout the building.
Will Rogers World Airport
Will Rogers World Airport is roughly 80 miles northeast of Fort Sill in the southern section of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The busiest airport in the state, Will Rogers airport is served by six airlines flying to nearly two dozen locations: American (Chicago), Continental (Houston and Newark), Delta (Atlanta, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City), Frontier (Denver), Southwest (Baltimore, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Phoenix and St. Louis) and United (Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington-Dulles). The terminal features dining options, bars, retail shops, lounges and free Wi-Fi throughout.
Wichita Falls Municipal Airport
Wichita Falls Municipal Airport is located 65 miles south of Fort Sill in Wichita Falls, Texas. The airport has regular service by American Eagle, which flies to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Allegiant Air and Sun Country offer charter flights from Wichita Falls Municipal to Lake Tahoe, Reno, Laughlin and Tunica. In addition to commercial airline service, Wichita Falls Municipal also offers general and business aviation services.
Dallas/ Fort Worth International Airport
Though it can be more than a three-hour drive to get there, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas, Texas, is the closest true international airport to Fort Sill. It's 184 miles to the north. The airport is currently served by 19 carriers that provide service to Europe, South America, Asia and the Caribbean, as well as dozens of locations around North America. DFW is a hub for American Airlines and features five terminals that are connected by a free Skylink high-speed train. All terminals feature a variety of different dining, retail, business and travel amenities.
Leaf Group is a USA TODAY content partner providing general travel information. Its content is produced independently of USA TODAY.
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Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by mjeagent, Nov 17, 2009.
My first review video so please be kind.
Dude nice review. For this being your first review, it was excellent and very informative.
The keyboard is not unusable : ) for you, yes. I happen to REALLY like the keyboard. Use it often. Those types of things (keyboard, styling etc) are very subjective.
Again, nice work
How raised up is the virtual keyboard?
There is an app to add more screens to the Droid.
Overall a good review.
Overall a good video. A couple points.....
for the first week I had the phone I did not like the keyboard at all, but now I LOVE it. I can type very fast on it, it's just a matter of getting used how you hold it in your hand and postion your thumbs.
The other thing is I find that android is really about making the phone meet your needs, customizing it to make it work for you. There is an app in the market place called K-9 (i'm sure there are others) does a great job with email and lets you put signatures. There are several apps to add more home screens, apps to make the phone have all customized icons. ext...
good review
I also thought it was a really good review. I do have to agree with others on the keyboard though, that is a pretty subjective thing. I entered all my contacts manually using the keyboard and after that practice session I'm almost as fast typing on my droid as I am typing on a laptop.
Why did you do this when you could have just entered them on your g-mail account?
Because I thought it was a good opportunity to become acquainted with my new keyboard ;p
Good thinking
Pixi is the worst Palm ever... Pre kicks its butt. If I hadn't had access to a PIXI, I would maybe agree with a few things here, but the PIXI is ****. A few valid Droid issues, but since we sat through your glowing PIXI review, I can say your Droid review and issues make no sense.
Stick with your iPhone.
im not really using the KB on my droid that much coz i am pretty used to the virtual one..
in any case, that was a good review.
Thanks everyone (well, most everyone) for the posts. I am hoping to do more videos in the future.


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FNUG comes up with the it colours which follow the latest in Scandinavian fashion to ensure that your nails stay on trend.
The feeling of being 'polished' right down to your fingertips should never be underestimated.
The varnish is chip resistant, which means that it is extremely long-lasting without the risk of breakage. In addition to nourishing protein, strengthening silica and delicate caviar, the varnish contains vitamins A, D, E and B.
If you are wondering where the caviar fits in, it is all to do with the high content of nutritious essential amino acids and minerals found in the luxurious micro eggs.
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Beachside Complete Dental Care is a trusted, well-established and supremely professional Skye Dental Clinic, conveniently located close to Skye on the Mornington Peninsula. We marry consummate professionalism from dentists at the pinnacle of their field with cutting-edge dental technology, to provide you with consistently top class dental care.
We're committed to promoting and improving the dental health and hygiene of both adults and children alike. We also pride ourselves on making you comfortable with excellent customer service on your every visit. Before an appointment at Beachside Complete Dental Care near Skye, we'll give you a refreshing beverage and fresh fruit – naturally sourced from our local green grocer – while you rest in our relaxing lounge. There's nothing like old friend customer service from your warm Skye Dentist.
You can choose from a complete range of dental services, and all share one thing in common: absolute premium quality. Some of the services we fantastic services we offer include:
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We also appreciate how much our customers love a smooth and seamless experience when they visit the dentist. With this in mind, we offer no hassle-appointments and total provider access, as well as our extremely easy location near the heart of Skye on the Peninsula. So here's hoping you'll be our next truly valued patient, get in touch today and get a world class service for all your Skye Dental needs.


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MADISON, Wis. (CBS) — Democratic Wisconsin senators are still hiding out in Illinois, as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker prepares to present a budget that strips collective bargaining rights from most public employees.
Meanwhile, protesters against Walker's budget plan appear to be gaining support across the country.
A new CBS News/New York Times poll indicates that 56 percent of Americans oppose cutting the pay and benefits of public workers to reduce state budget deficits, compared with 37 percent in favor and 7 percent undecided. A total of 60 percent oppose taking away collective bargaining rights, compared with 33 percent in favor and 7 percent undecided.
The poll also finds that most Americans say they would support a tax increase over a reduction in pay for public workers.
But Walker is standing his ground.
"The law is on our side," he said. "We have a right to do this to the statutes and that's what we're doing."
He also maintains that if the 14 Wisconsin state senators who have left the state do not return for a budget vote, they will cost the state $165 million in bond refinancing.
Protests against Walker's budget plan continue in Madison, and some supporters of public workers' are calling on President Barack Obama to keep a promise he made on the campaign trail 3 1/2 years ago.
As WBBM Newsradio 780's Bernie Tafoya reports, in 2007, then-candidate Obama told a crowd that if American workers are being denied the right to organize and collectively bargain when he is in the White House, he would put on a comfortable pair of shoes and walk the picket line with them.
LISTEN: Newsradio 780's Bernie Tafoya reports
So far, there has been no indication that Obama intends to do that in Wisconsin, and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) does not think he should.
"In terms of physically walking or appearing at the capitol, I would say in his role as president that may not be the right thing to do at this moment, but I think the American people know where he stands," Durbin said.
Durbin said the President of the United States has a different role to play in matters like this, and President Obama has exercised his leadership correctly.
While most of the protesters are in Madison, the demonstrations have spread well beyond the state capital.
In particular, Walker's campaign backers are taking heat. Protesters marched Monday outside a Georgia Pacific plant in Green Bay Monday, which is owned by Koch Industries.
The billionaire Koch brothers rank 24th on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, and are Walker supporters. Walker took heat from opponents earlier this week, when Ian Murphy, a blogger for the left-leaning Web site "Buffalo Beast," posed as Koch Industries billionaire and Walker backer David Koch and called Walker up.
In a 20-minute conversation, Walker openly discussed plans to issue layoff notices if his budget bill is not passed soon, and talked about ideas to punish the absent Senate Democrats, whom Murphy-as-Koch referred to as "Democrat bastards." Murphy-as-Koch also suggested inserting "troublemakers" among the demonstrators, but Walker said while he had "thought about it," the idea would be politically unadvisable.
Tea Party protesters have been coming to Wisconsin to campaign in support of Walker.


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Meanwhile in Linn County Iowa… Third Consideration on amendments to the Linn County Code of Ordinances as follows:
Chapter 3 2012 International Building & Residential Code
Chapter 4 2012 International Mechanical Code
Chapter 5 2012 Uniform Plumbing Code
Chapter 6 2011 National Electrical Code
Chapter 30 2012 International Property Maintenance Code
Chapter 32 2012 International Fire Code
Agenda 21 Is Being Rammed Down The Throats Of Local Communities All Over America! What will you do about it? Did you even know about it? Agenda 21 is not something a lot of people talk about or even believe is happening in America. But it is happening in America and it's happening right here in our own city! Don't believe me! Please do your own research! You can see my sources by clicking on the links (by clicking on the words themselves) that I've hooked to each of these chapters listed above.
So how is this being done? Well, after Agenda 21 was adopted, an international organization known as the "International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives" (ICLEI) was established to help implement the goals of Agenda 21.
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At 1:11 Governor Branstad acknowledges Agenda 21. Even though he says he doesn't support it and claims that he has tried to stop it at the state level he hasn't and likely won't! If he was truly trying to stop this from happening he would be more aggressive about it! If he was truly trying to stop Agenda 21 at the state level he could easily do it simply by talking about it– in more than one video!


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le mercredi 13 octobre à 14:00
SEMOVI - R. Golstein
Amphi CNRS
par- 13 octobre 2010
"Stirring Tails of Evolution"
One of the most fundamental issues in biology is the nature of evolutionary transitions from single cell organisms to multicellular ones. Not surprisingly for microscopic life in a fluid environment, many of the processes involved are related to transport and locomotion, for efficient exchange of chemical species with the environment is one of the most basic features of life. This is particularly so in the case of flagellated eukaryotes such as green algae, whose members serve as model organisms for the study of transitions to multicellularity. In this talk I will summarize recent theoretical and experimental work addressing a number of interrelated aspects of evolutionary transitions in the Volvocine green algae, which range from unicellular Chlamydomonas to Volvox , with thousands of cells. Phenomena to be discussed include allometry of nutrient uptake, phenotypic plasticity, flagellar synchronization, hydrodynamic bound states, and the dynamics of adaptive phototaxis.
For more details, see http://www.cgmc.univ-lyon1.fr/Semovi/13octobre2010.php
Dans la même rubrique :
- Séminaire annulé (octobre 2010)
- Mr Aurélien BELOT (octobre 2010)
- Guillaume Filion (postdoc, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam) (octobre 2010)
- Mikko Mönkkönen (Department of Biological and Environmental Science,Unversité de Jyväskylä, Finlande) (octobre 2010)
- Jean Clobert (Station d'Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS à Moulis) (octobre 2010)
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The upcoming Beast continues to make awesome decisions and joins Gareth Evans' Apostle.
We saw that director Gareth Evans was working on the third draft of his script for Apostle over on Instagram. His follow-up to The Raid 2 is the story of a man who travels to a remote island and attempts to rescue his sister after she's kidnapped by a religious cult. The group demands a ransom for the sister's return, undermining the man's resolve to rescue her.
We can only assume that he has to fight his way through the whole island to get her back. And we cannot wait to see it.
Now we have confirmation that The Guest's, Dan Stevens will be the man fighting his way through the island. Stevens is going to blow up in a major way the next couple of years. He's going to be the Beast in Disney's upcoming live-action Beauty and the Beast, he's playing a the world's most powerful mutant in FX's upcoming series Legion, he's starring in Nacho Vigalondo's Colossal that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. And Redivider, Marshall, and Permission are also on the docket.
What's great about Dan Stevens are his choices. Indie movies, major studio blockbusters, and everything in between, including television (Legion looks like the best thing to come from the X-Men universe, well, ever.). If you haven't seen The Guest then see The Guest. And when you ask me who should be the next Bond? Here's my answer.
The other great news is that we're getting another movie from Gareth Evans.
This is not hyperbole: Gareth Evans is the best living action director we have.
It's been far too long since Evans blew us away with The Raid 2, especially with no real, solid word on when we'd next see something from him. The last we saw was this short embedded below that he made because he was anxious to shoot something. A mark of a true filmmaker. Also, this kicks ass.
He did this for fun by the way. I know, right? Apostle starts production in March 2017.
His love of most things in entertainment can be summed up by having an English Bulldog named Spielberg and consistently asking if it's Halloween yet.


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