The Europeans are far more skeptical than Americans who seem to believe anything spoken or in print must be true

The US Rushed into a 10 year war in VIET NAM to defend vs the Domino Theory while we shored up a series of hand picked puppet Dictators hated by the people, and we served up 80,000 US soldiers, and we Lost BADLY, and the Domino Theory never transpired. . .

The  US rushed into a war  against AFGHANISTAN, vs  one man , on a dialysis machine hiding out in caves in Pakistan., and 10 years later he is still running free.

The US rushed into a 10 year war vs IRAQ because of CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE (that had been selectively fabricated, and forged ) 
 there were NONE, and we are still there WHY????????  We want to instill Democracy? Really, and we dwaddle while Libya tries to over throw its opppressive Dictator, asking for little, 

Do we seem stupid or what??????  Now we are going after IRAN, because we don't like IRAN since they threw out OUR SHAH. ln 1979, after the US placed him on the Throne in a US Coup, that displaced a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED Mohammad Mosaddeq in 1953, resulting in the return of the Shah and his infamous SAVAK.

SPEAKING with a veteran foreign correspondent last week I learned an Italian term I hadn't known: dietrologia. The idea is that many Italians believe that the surface or official explanation for something can rarely be the real one. There's always something behind, or dietro, that surface. It's a great word.

But it was offered to me as a pop-Whorfian example for how different languages incline speakers differently. I couldn't quite agree; surely the Italians coined dietrologia because of the nature of their society. I doubt the existence of dietrologia as a word led to this feature of the culture. Indeed, my conversation partner spot-calqued the word into English?as "behindology"?proving that the old "can't be translated" trope is usually wrong. Indeed, in 1964 the political historian Richard Hofstadter published "The Paranoid Style in American Politics", about a very similar phenomenon stateside. I hereby nominate "behindology" as a useful loan-translation for the worldviews of Glenn Beck and the other purveyors of dietrologia all'americana.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/03/italian_worldviews
 
 

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