I like how you spin "the self-interested actions of all
parties benefits all". You so benignly spin those
countries that opposed the war without ever mentioning
that France, Germany, Russia, China, etc., all had
participated in illegal arms sales to Iraq & had received
extremely lucrative contracts in return from Saddam.
You ignore that post 9/11, the US was no longer going to
play games with rouge regimes that thumbed its nose at UN
resolutions & harbored, trained & supported terrorists.
Meanwhile you spin US self interests in negative terms as
though we were the only party at fault....
"We can play big daddy and dictate to the world. Or we can respect partners, even if those partners are weaker than we, even though we know and they know that we could blow them away if we wanted to. I think that the latter is in our long term best interests, even if there's a certain amount of smoke blowing involved."
"Germany has every right and every obligation to try to change our minds, to try to stop us from doing what they perceive to be harmful to them."
"If Germany is in our way, we do what we need to get Germany out of the way. This whining about how they don't appreciate what we are doing for them as we march off to save the world is disgusting, IMO."
Yup, it's disgusting. And obvious. |
