House of Paine

faith in the 100% pure bombs away solution

go back a ways
and it 
seems 
it wasn't just winny churchill
or barry goldwater types
who "dug "
             the concept
                of open ended
                          "pattern bombing" 
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            on the soft left
                   from mailer to einstein

( at least before hanoi 67 )

there was" faith in bombs 
                         under pressure"

faith in 
       the efficacy of air superiority
                      and
                               in huge conventional 
                                            pay loads  
                           
       a crude  but effective method
                 to end or deter
                                 totalitarian escapades 


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its really quite wonderous

here was the horro of horrors to inter war soft hearts

aireal bombardment

vide picasso's  
 agit -ink blasting of bombing
    in the spanish war  


but that was then.....

before near all of europefell 
 under hitler's  heel 

after that
here's fuzzy wuzzy
albert 
now generalissimo 
       of the black board

 as told by lord keynes

the setting
princeton nj

 early 1941 

 before pearl harbor 
          and even the russian front

"he (einstein)
urged me to push on the powers that be
          back  home 
 to
        above all else
 continuously  bomb  germany
and without remorse....
the germans 
       will not stand up to it "


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now lets jump ahead
with one totalitarian menace licked 
  but the next stomping all over 
 "mittel europe"

here's  mailer

its the early fifties

at this point
norm  has the hindsight benefit 
of just how much 
the germans (and the japs)
stood up to 
after  
advice along einstein's lines
                    was vigorously  "implimented "

and yet 
 this self professed
 boy wonder of libertarian socialism
        still  felt

uncle alone 
 could deter 
in fact 
was  detering
a  desperation
  stalin offensive
into western germmany
and beyond 
to the channels edge

solely 
on the strength 
of "SAM'S "
ability to 
 lay back in comfort
               
among  englands green pastures
    and bomb 
  the red fuckers' dream 
                    to blazes

i.e.
 deny the soviets 
      the  crucial benefit
                     of all those
                      seized production plants 

norms conclusion

soviet strategy 
would remain
   "peaceful subversion " 

cause uncle would
use  a" scorch  plants policy" 



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more on norm to come 

and more on bleeding heart bombers too 

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