29-01-2009, 10:33 AM
I liked the quotation at the head of the "McCain's real Petreaus Doctrine":
I can just see the formulators of this strategy giggling about their cleverness - as they sip from their Cognac bowls and uff on their Habana's - in "forcing" a class war fought by and against the "same class"
Quote:[T]he psychological effectiveness of the CSDF concept starts by reversing the insurgent strategy of making the government the repressor. It forces the insurgents to cross a critical threshold-that of attacking and killing the very class of people they are supposed to be liberating.
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— US Special Forces doctrine obtained by Wikileaks
I can just see the formulators of this strategy giggling about their cleverness - as they sip from their Cognac bowls and uff on their Habana's - in "forcing" a class war fought by and against the "same class"
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14