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James Blunt Saved The World Before He Destroyed It
"We had 200 Russians lined up pointing their weapons at us aggressively, which was… and you know we'd been told to reach the airfield and take a hold of it."
—This is very weird. In 1999, British singer James Blunt "prevented World War III," as the BBC puts it, by refusing Nato Supreme Commander Europe General Wesley Clark's orders to attack a Russian battalion in the confusing war in Kosovo. Why would he do that, only to go on six years later to record and release "You're Beautiful," which surely did at least as much damage to humanity as full-scale war between nuclear powers would have?
And yet no one praises me for accidentally hitting on Sufjan Stevens that one time. That, my friend, was a noble effort.
Wait, what?
Seriously, what?
This quote is 90% what by volume!
Patrick Swayze don't back down from no Ruskies.
WOLVERINES!!!!!
So in the future, when our recent history time-line is collapsed into a moment, the school children will be taught that this was all a pyrrhic victory.
Oh great, now I might have to like Blunt as a human being. I can still hate that wretched song though, right?
He also tortured a terrorist to prevent 9/11 2, for what that's worth.
Millennial Dan Fogelberg Saves World He Subsequently Destroyed
why don't we sugar off down the road
I'll never be able to keep up with all of those Brit colloquialisms for masturbation.
This seems like a carefully crafted CIA-MI6 counterintel psy-ops move, distracting us with the WTFery of James Blunt's involvement from the core story, which is that the NATO Supreme Commander (and supposedly viable US politician) Wesley Clark ordered a motherfucking infrantry assault on the motherfucking Russians. Seriously? SERIOUSLY?
old news, jfruh. This came up during the 2004 primaries when Wesley Clark's candidacy was still kind of a thing. I remember discussions like this going on in some Democratic circles -
Pros: he's smart, moderate, looks Presidential, and the Republicans can't attack him for being weak on national security.
Cons: CRAZY MOFO ALMOST SINGLEHANDEDLY STARTED WORLD WAR III
Wow, somehow I missed that, despite the fact that I was briefly following his candidacy with some interest before deciding he was lame. The only Kosovo War anecdote involving him that I remember coming out at the time was that Defense Sec. William Cohen thought Clark was being a media whore, and apparently demanded to know from his staff "why is his fucking face still on the fucking television," or words to that effect.
Well, I'm pretty sure someone somewhere is using his music to torture a captured enemy, so there's that, too.
ZOMG! A human in teh media can haz more than ONE DIMENSION!!!
Funny post.