tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post5452968026229038634..comments2023-10-30T19:03:59.225+01:00Comments on David Seaton's News Links: A Republic, if you can keep itDavid Seaton's Newslinkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-15464498169892857382009-11-06T08:18:36.328+01:002009-11-06T08:18:36.328+01:00Everything you say about the Italian people's ...Everything you say about the Italian people's treatment of their war dead is true... and the CIA etc, is true, however, despite that, Berlusconi <i>is</i> a grotesque criminal and a slimebag that has no business running a serious country... And I am afraid that the Italians <i>need</i> to be told that on a daily basis... nobody spared Berlusconi's friend Bush, did they?David Seaton's Newslinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-2775549601789256702009-11-05T22:15:43.788+01:002009-11-05T22:15:43.788+01:00The Italians are taking care of Berlusoni, they ca...The Italians are taking care of Berlusoni, they care, but not in the same way you do. They are not as militant about other leaders. They take care of their own ''Nov 4th, their fallen', specically this week.<br />They do wonder why they have to indict our CIA, they wonder why we don't, they wonder why they can pay off the Taliban and make sure their own troops aren't killed as often as ours, and we don't.<br />They wonder why they honor their dead, as they have since we invaded IRAQ ( lived in Rome for 3 years and was overwhelmed with how well they addressed their leader/their fallen/their issues re IRAQ.<br />They wonder why we don't, they have many names for Silvio but they don't need you to highlight and contrast him to other western leaders.baileyhttp://www.baileyalexander.typepad.com/europhile/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-62641875395524809492009-11-02T08:35:29.430+01:002009-11-02T08:35:29.430+01:00Funny enough some of the most heavy duty exposés o...Funny enough some of the most heavy duty exposés of il cavilliere come from El País newspaper here in Spain (photos included). <br /><br />And yes he really is a criminal and yes he really is a scumbag and a public danger and if the Italians don't care about any of that (many of them do, it appears) then worse for them is in store.<br /><br />I think he'll end up in jail.David Seaton's Newslinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00269813419598042699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36646589.post-63612210778709278372009-11-01T22:12:08.950+01:002009-11-01T22:12:08.950+01:00It feels naive and counter-productive to compare B...It feels naive and counter-productive to compare Berlusconi with Bloomberg. <br /><br />Americans believe their tv, Italians don't, American culture is fat, unhappy, unrealistic towards perceived power and money centric. Their system is broken and they don't want to fix it.<br /><br />Italian culture is relatively healthy, cynical yet content and quite pragmatic towards power and simply not willing begrudge Silvio his dosh. They know their system is broken, therefore invest little emotion, but they work around it.<br /> <br />Compare Bloomberg with Blair, maybe, both 'squeaky clean', sanctimonious types....jesus, silvio the slimebag? really, you think you know where the dead bodies are buried David, you think? <br /><br />Berlusconi controls his own empire, he doesen't control the citizens ability to control their own petite powers.<br /><br />Sometimes I think you read too much British press, I do too, but I know how to temper their perspective. They know nothing of Italy, or France, or Germany, of old Europe, basta. They have a bridge to Paris, speak bad french and, well....le fin....baileyhttp://www.baileyalexander.typepad.com/europhile/noreply@blogger.com