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MARTIN AMIS SAID: "There's no culture in America for trying to put checks on the power-rush. As there is in England & 'old Europe' (as Rumsfeld insultingly called it). And Blair would be very aware of this danger. But Bush wasn't. And he looked like a drunk in a bar. He looked as though he'd just done a snowball of cocaine. And he recruited all around him with an ideological filter. So that everyone on the team was on the team. And no dissenting voices were allowed. And a classic march of folly. And there wasn't a plan for the peace. There was no plan."

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  • I love amis! Read his latest book "the second plane". He's been taken horribly out of context by the islington dinner party circuit. He's really quite nice & liberal. He thinks very clearly.

  • He clearly is not a racist. Please read his books.

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  • "9-11 was an inside job"

    And all the people in the mental wards really are Napoleon Bonaparte...

  • @1thousandways

    'inside job'. Oh gawd. Another one,

    Just for the fun of it, how about sharing your theory of what happened with us.

  • Listen Amis you idiot. You have lead a charmed life. 1. 9-11 was an inside job. So stop wasting your time trying to read meaning into what you are told the likes of Mohammed Atta thought, said, and did. 2. This interpretation of all contemporary politics as primarily about gender and sex is a very clear case of projection by a life-long womaniser facing the 'end of all that'.

  • On "moderate" Ayatollah al-Sistani's injunctions on sex:

    "....And some of his advice about sex I found quite helpful. Quite.... moderate really."

    lolololol

    these are the moments where you must *heart* Amis. Even when he's terrified, he never loses sight of the important things.

  • Intellectual revolution within Islam? Sounds great! Can't wait! In the meantime, can't we westerners just realize that citizenship is not a human right and do the sane thing, the thing we do in our own homes to keep murderers and looneys out: shut the goddamn door on 'em!

  • Iraq was secular before what Amis would call the liberation of Iraq.

    be careful what you wish for.

  • I enjoyed Time's Arrow - it travels backwards through the life of a Nazi Auschwitz doctor and is very powerful, particularly when he writes about the Holocaust. I was amazed that he was accused of anti-Semitism by some.

  • Please do upload the Amis 'Experience' southbank show video!

  • oppenheimer-most powerful man in human history, amis

  • abc changed lateline to differentiate it from sbs dateline

    both great australian publlic affairs programs

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