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http://nypost.com/2013/09/18/the-dude-abides-in-syria-mess/ O.K., I have no problem looking to fictions, including Coen brothers movies, in order to explain world affairs and US foreign policy. But this is an inane bit of neo-conservative wish-fulfillment. The fact is that the U.S. foreign policy apparatus constantly imagines itself as The Dude, but constantly acts like Walter: in the end, everything in the plot ends up moving around its inane scheming, short-sighted fuck-ups, chaotic attempts at retaliation and propensity for unhinged, insane levels of violence.