Really? Most of that can be dismissed as wild, unproven and probably unfounded conjecture and speculation. Ray Duray on valium.
It would be the
culmination of a plan 10 years or more in
the making, carried out by those who
believe the United States must seize the
opportunity for global domination, even if it
means becoming the "American
imperialists" that our enemies always
claimed we were.
So this guy's privy to the innermost secrets of the American gov't? Because I doubt that there announcing this stuff in press releases.
Because we won't be leaving. Having
conquered Iraq, the United States will
create permanent military bases in that
country from which to dominate the Middle
East, including neighboring Iran.
Maybe. We haven't left Europe or Japan yet. We did leave the Phillipines, though, when its gov't asked.
Oh, Europe. Remember France? Our good buddies told us to get our butts out of their country. We did.
Dominate? The Europeans thumb their noses at us on a regular basis these days.
Lapdog imperialists is what I'd call us.
That is absolute crap.
In an interview Friday, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld brushed aside that
suggestion, noting that the United States
does not covet other nations' territory. That
may be true, but 57 years after World War
II ended, we still have major bases in
Germany and Japan. W will do the same
in Iraq.
Right. They were set up after WW2 in each case, first for occupation (we did fight and win a war with them), and then to hold off the Soviet bear. Their gov'ts have not asked us to leave.
And why has the administration dismissed
the option of containing and deterring Iraq,
as we had the Soviet Union for 45 years?
We had no choice with the USSR. A war with them was going to be WW3- -the end of civilization. Iraq
is quite a different proposition. We don't have to settle for the long, hard, and expensive solution.
You still want to be dealing with this problem 40 years from now?
Because even if it worked, containment
and deterrence would not allow the
expansion of American power. Besides,
they are beneath us as an empire. Rome
did not stoop to containment; it
conquered. And so should we.
Oh, cut the crap. Anti-American BS.
That thing is a bit long to deal with in one post. Actually, it would be a semester project to refute it. Probably part of the intent. |
