Just like public opinion is allegedly the only thing that motivates the power elite in your country to make significant changes, huh?
Who says any one factor motivates the power elite?? It's a multitude of factors that politicians have to listen to.. They have to listen to labor, business, religious denominations, local special interests and constituency, IN ADDITION to listening to foreign goverments and public opinion.
Were Saddam facing such a system as exists in the US, he'd never have a chance of accumulating absulute power. In fact, the closest thing we've ever had to such family hegemony in US politics was the Kennedy clan. Can you imagine the outroar if Bush tried to name his brother as the Attorney General, or some other cabinet level post? That's what JFK did... And he still failed to obtain absolute power in US politics (LBJ had more power than JFK did).
But tell me, Hawk, how come America's Zionist freaks don't organize BIG pro-WAR rallies of their own... throughout the country??
Because who's stupid enough to scream out in public that they are "pro-war" and have some great desire to kill Iraqis?? Going to war is nothing to be proud about. There's little glory in it, despite the many acts of human bravery and self-sacrifice that result from it.
War is seldom, if ever, sought by any democratic nation or it's people. It's entered into with great hesitation and usually great debate.
And since Israel is a democracy, that's why you seldom, if ever, see a "pro-war" rally on their part. However, ONE DOES SEE numerous rallies advocating wars of genocide and violence by the Palestinians and other Arab states in the region.
That generally only occurs in non-democratic nations, where one up and coming rival of the power elite seeks to manipulate a segment of the population with political extremism.
I have little problem with people demonstrating against war. I don't like war either. But I like the alternative, an oppressive peace and appeasing of a megalo-maniac dictator, even less.
I heard one lady screaming "oil is not worth dying for" at the rally. So I asked her if the liberation of the Iraqi people are worth dying for??
She, of course, couldn't accept that this is what would result from an overthrow of Saddam Hussein. And she cared little about the fact that France and Russia are BOTH propping up Saddam and his repressive regime (and making billion dollar deals with him).. Apparently, THEY think oil is worth having Iraqi blood spilled... by Saddam..
I can only imagine what the international world would be saying were it the US who was currently propping up Saddam and benefitting from all of that oil..
The condemnation of the US in such a case, would be so huge, it would dwarf what we see now..
Hawk
What I'm citing is that |
