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First my cousin criticizes the insurgent strategy of the rebel alliance in "Star Wars" and now this
April 14, 2010 | Posted by Abu Muqawama - 12:11pm | 16 Comments
These are the kinds of emails Foust sends me at 11:00 at night because he knows I'm the only one who will appreciate them, even if I have never actually watched Glee:
Watching Glee tonight, as Jesse from Vocal Adrenaline conducted a major PSYOP operation against Rachel to throw off the Glee Club before Regionals, it struck me: Glee is an allegory for classic unconventional warfare. Shu knows he has a Sue (Russian) problem, who is screwed because the Indian principal (UN/NATO/EU) is being wishy-washy. He doesn't realize his internal policy team, the Glee Club (i.e. the Beltway Bandits), is flaky and indecisive. Meanwhile, the jocks are like dopey America, who care but really don't. The ex-wife baby drama is totally the insider threat or maybe the FBI. Vocal Adrenaline are like the Israelis - they want to make out, learn all about you, but they're really just screwing with you. And in the end, shit gets thrown down because the Club is functional in performance, but dysfunctional outside of its enclave or off-stage. Coach Tanaka represents disenfranchised allies like the UK and Australia—depressed he lost the chick, but always told what to do and eats for fun. Think about it, it's perfect.
Not true. Israelis love the
Not true. Israelis love the US, but it's the love affair between the mouse and the elephant. Mouse need to move fast in order not to be squashed, and to elephant this behaviour may sometimes look annoying and suspicious.
Yeah, and Foust is Kurt
Yeah, and Foust is Kurt Hummel.
Thanks and all, but no one
Thanks and all, but no one really believes you've never watched Glee. Everyone watches Glee.
my girlfriend made me watch
my girlfriend made me watch Glee one night, I then promptly dumped her the next day. You all should follow suit.
I've seen worse analogical
I've seen worse analogical reasoning about policy. I watch this show with my wife and now I think I'll be slightly less ashamed of that fact after seeing this.
Of a similar bent is the
Of a similar bent is the Mean Girls guide to Human Terrain Mapping:
Dammit. No youtube embeds.
Dammit. No youtube embeds. The Mean Girls guide to North Shore Human Terrain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsPvRtQIKG0
Ha, that's awesome.
Ha, that's awesome.This was missing from the
This was missing from the last post on Star Wars:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Apocalypse_Endor
Note, as well, that The
Note, as well, that The Plastics are defeated in an arguably asymmetrically-waged conflict, in which their adversaries are nominally (much) weaker. Cady Heron and her cohorts' use of ingenious tactics perhaps more than compensates for whatever else they may be lacking; they identify The Plastics' centers of gravity with a Clausewitzian fingerspitzengefuhl one can only marvel at, and exploit the centers of gravity exactly through the culminating point.
I only caught a minute of Glee while I was, I think, getting ready to watch The Daily Show. But Family Guy is growing old - I can only watch so many reruns, as much as I admire MacFarlane's brilliance. I was willing to admit without shame that I watched the early seasons of The OC - would I be able to watch Glee, and would I be able to admit if I did?
ADTS
Damn now I have to sit
Damn now I have to sit through Glee again ( yes I watched it once) and see if there are some redeeming factors.
can anyone link to the
can anyone link to the critique of star wars insurgency? sounds like an amusing piece.
http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abu
http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2009/08/han-solo-was-no-vo-nguyen-...
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