| Horsefeathers. The US helped make Saddam. Who is the US to choose which dictators will lead other countries? That is how we got here in the first place. What you are calling for, like it or not, is for the US to pick dictators, support them, promote them, finance them, kill their enemies for them, and then, when they no longer serve our economic interests, to move in and kill them. Horsefeathers. Take your death squads in South America, your dictators we call "friends" who ship us oil, the gangs who supply our diamonds, the same ones who kill their own people and use our "military advisors" and "development aid" to do it, and shove it. What makes what we want to fill our own pockets with cash morally superior? If we can support the killing so that our precious economic interests are served, then it is what it is -- the use of force to seize resources. Call it like it is -- don't cloak this in moral terms. Pure horsefeathers. How many die moving the diamonds out of Africa? How much of that money goes to buy weapons? How much of the money from the jewels we wear is used to kill women and children? Who died so that we can drive our SUV's -- I am tired of the moral smugness of American consumerism. With sincere apologies to all -- I can't stand this conversation. |
