US Senator John McCain's casket is pictured at the memorial service at National Cathedral in Washington. REUTERS/Chris Wattie
Spengler: A funeral for a world that never was
Senator John McCain’s grand funeral was also a chance for the Establishment to take one step closer to its grave.
Funeral services are not for the benefit of the defunct, who is beyond our praise or condemnation, but for the living, who know before long that they will follow the honored dead into a cold grave.
Senator John McCain’s funeral was the most ostentatious that Washington has accorded except for a president, and much grander than the 2006 funeral of Gerald Ford, for example. The American Establishment took the opportunity to mourn a world that it imagined but never inhabited.
The eulogies for the Arizona senator, to be sure, were a convenient occasion for the Establishment to show its dudgeon at “the pointedly un-invited President Trump,” as the New Yorker noted, calling the event “the biggest resistance meeting yet.”
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WNU Editor: Spengler .... as usual .... does not disappoint in his above commentary.
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" “General,” I remonstrated, “when Morsi was overthrown, Egypt had three weeks of wheat supplies on hand. The country was on the brink of starvation!” “I guess that experiment would have been tough on the ordinary Egyptian,” Hayden replied. "
And Hayden did not know or know to also look there?
Hayden is one of the people judging Trump?
Every ZeroHedge reader knew this.
Maybe sad sack Hayden did not look at their foreign currency reserve's either. I looked them up often on Trading Economics during the 2011 time period.
https://tradingeconomics.com/egypt/foreign-exchange-reserves
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