04-01-2012, 10:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-01-2012, 03:41 AM by Charles Drago.)
One must be a subscriber to the WSJ in order to read Epstein's latest exercise in misdirection in its entirety.
Yet just the first paragraph, offered gratis, gives us a pretty good picture of Epstein's political agenda:
"Whether or not it wins an Oscar, the movie adaptation of John Le Carre's 1974 novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" demonstrates the power of the classic spy story about the struggle of a fallen intelligence officer to uncover a high-level mole. The obstacle to finding the mole is the intelligence service itself, which attempts to rid itself of the mole hunter. It doesn't want to admit that it has been gulleda story that's all too rooted in reality."
TTSS is "about" so much more than Epstein would have us believe. It is a meditation on betrayal -- of friend, of lover, of class, of colleague, of country. It stands as John Le Carre's first literary exploration of the deepest meanings of the Cold War -- its origins and true purposes -- and musings regarding the nature, function, and moral limits of patriotism and national identity.
Years later, in his novel The Russia House, Le Carre's main character Barley Blair sums it up when he tells his lover, Katya, "You're my country now."
In TTSS, Le Carre begins the process of questioning his own patriotism -- its value, its moral legitimacy. And by the end of Smiley's People, the third novel in the so-called "Karla Trilogy" that includes TTSS and The Honourable Schoolboy, the immortal George Smiley is left incapable of defining victory in a Cold War that has betrayed all of its noble combatants.
Such doubt, such insight, such wisdom cannot and will not be tolerated by Epstein's masters.
Yet just the first paragraph, offered gratis, gives us a pretty good picture of Epstein's political agenda:
"Whether or not it wins an Oscar, the movie adaptation of John Le Carre's 1974 novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" demonstrates the power of the classic spy story about the struggle of a fallen intelligence officer to uncover a high-level mole. The obstacle to finding the mole is the intelligence service itself, which attempts to rid itself of the mole hunter. It doesn't want to admit that it has been gulleda story that's all too rooted in reality."
TTSS is "about" so much more than Epstein would have us believe. It is a meditation on betrayal -- of friend, of lover, of class, of colleague, of country. It stands as John Le Carre's first literary exploration of the deepest meanings of the Cold War -- its origins and true purposes -- and musings regarding the nature, function, and moral limits of patriotism and national identity.
Years later, in his novel The Russia House, Le Carre's main character Barley Blair sums it up when he tells his lover, Katya, "You're my country now."
In TTSS, Le Carre begins the process of questioning his own patriotism -- its value, its moral legitimacy. And by the end of Smiley's People, the third novel in the so-called "Karla Trilogy" that includes TTSS and The Honourable Schoolboy, the immortal George Smiley is left incapable of defining victory in a Cold War that has betrayed all of its noble combatants.
Such doubt, such insight, such wisdom cannot and will not be tolerated by Epstein's masters.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene