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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (32538)6/18/2002 10:44:00 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Hi carranza2; Re: "Reading the Palestinian H-bomb issue alongside the article on US hegemony pointed out how easy it is to become arrogant. Israel is in many ways in the same hegemonic position in the ME as the US is globally. This has not stopped a cheap, effective means of creating disruption from being used. Why is the US in any different position?"

The US is not in a different position than Israel. If we occupied a foreign country filled with a numerous people who hate us for 50 years, we'd be getting suicide bombers too, and wondering why our military couldn't win anybody's hearts and minds.

Our military is probably even less effective than the Israeli at bringing civilians to heel. By contrast, any of the primitive and brutal 3rd world dictatorships are better at controlling civilians than the 1st world professional armies. Think about it. As a civilian in nonaligned country X, would you be more afraid for your life if the US Army invaded or if the Cuban / Iraqi / Iranian / Chinese / etc./ Army came through? I wouldn't worry too much about the Americans (or Israelis), but I'd definitely keep a low profile around the others.

We can kick their asses, but we can't make them say "uncle". We're too refined for that.

-- Carl
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