Fear and Loathing in America

All he said was that a holy war would be fought. Not that impressive.

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We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say.

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and it still is.

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All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

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disregard the goofy child-president part, which IYAM is needlessly inflammatory, and the rest of this paragraph is spot on. And it didn't stop when Bush left office.

He was kidnapped and is being held by the illuminati - writing one book per year that is only read by the elites at Bilderberg, and never discussed.

Thompson is guiding the global war on terror himself.

For those who think the media were once fountains of virtue.

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So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here — not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

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He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

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This is pretty much what happened, and continues to happen.

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This is pretty much what happened, and continues to happen

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And it didn't surprise me at the time. Someone was gonna pay.

ETA: Everyone worldwide knew somebody was gonna get fricked.

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Unfortunately, it turned out to be ordinary American citizens.

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Hindsight is just that.

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It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides

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Christian jihad? How in the heck does he figure this?

I'm not sure how prescient he was.

He predicted lasting guerilla warfare. Ok, check.

He predicted a Christian jihad. Uh, no. The US has almost fallen over backward to prevent this, referrign to Islam as a religion of peace and making clear from Bush to Obama that the "War on Terror" was not a war on Muslims.

He predicted that we could be fighting in Iraq. Unfortunately, he was right. The worst foreign policy blunder in my lifetime.

A war driven by the "global oil." I don't see it. Sure, oil reserves are important, but our decade in Afghanistan couldn't have had anything to do with oil and even in Iraq, we did very little to benefit from the resources. Instead, domestic production has exploded. The "war for oil" fit a left-of-center talkign point, but I just don't see objective proof that it was ever a driving factor.

What I can't tell is if Thompson predicted anything like the Patriot Act and loss of civil liberties with "coming down hard on everybody."

An interesting read, but I don't give Thompson as much credit for prescience as the OP.

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it does not appear that the American populace has the will to fight a war of civilizations

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This

People claim there is no way to win this war. Of course there is but Americans don't have the resolve to allow the military to use the means to make it happen. Nor do we have any current leadership that has the ability to lead.