Gore Vidal on "The Emperor"

"He smiled benignly at the oil wells"

The great message of Roosevelt: End all the empires -- save one.

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[Emyousmusa]

This is great info I wish I knew about Gore Vidal long ago...

[souljaEXVOTO]

I always did wish George Bush would sit and have a little coffee with Gore Vidal.

Perhaps he would have known then, the difference between Sunni & Shiite before he swept through and decimated Mesopotamia proper. dumb fucks always benefit from surrounding themselves with brilliant people. that little coffee could have changed the world.

[wyles54]

i quite enjoy listening to mr. vidal's point of view. my only complaint would be that hearing his voice instills in me an inexorable desire to clear my throat

[devdoger62]

in what is this news?

[Chong94]

Please, correct me if im wrong but the british decolonization of india doesnt seem to me to be forced by american hand. From what i've read there is an interesting background story to indian independence that he seems to be ignoring. To say the united states somehow negotiated india's independence seems to belittle all the act of defiance and rebellion of the native population.

[rhatcher010]

This was posted three years ago and in that time there have been little more than 17,000 views. Consider the videos that get a million plus views within a matter of days then I think you've identified another nasty symptom of the old problem.

[Rico8458]

all kids in america should be forced to read the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich so that we all can see and know how governments can so easy be taken over in any time. Look what Napoleon did? sad to say Obama is a puppet not a true leader

[20thcentury]

Why video clips of cats playing piano have more views than Gore Vidal, is a mystery I will never understand...

[Graphic36]

Cowardly? Considerations like that have no place in a war. It's not a video game.

[urdu034]

the air war was a disaster, and strategic bombing, to this very day, is a disaster. it is not only ineffective it is cowardly. all the British proponents (and the American) subscribed to Douhet's theories. they kept changing the goals and theories to match the ground truths they were up against. suggest you read John Mosier's works. Even the BBC's documentary on the air war questions the rationality of the campaign.

[urdu034]

I like how he brought up short Jay: " it wasn't that well thought out".

[bahramf]

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