Re: . What are America's goals and in the end will it be worth the costs?
I've come to the conclusion that the goals of the people who are running Bush run contrary to the best interests of Americans at large.
In a nutshell, there is an organized effort, which really can't be called a conspiracy, by a cabal of right wing corporatists, Zionists and militarists who see their best interests being served by aggressive imperialism.
These people can be roughly categorized as scoffing at democracy, localism, communities and the ideals of a republican form of government most of us have been taught to admire. They see the American public as something to be manipulated, ridiculed, ignored and/or taken advantage of.
While the winners of the Iraq conquest (i.e. Halliburton, Bechtel, Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon and the folks like them) go about their business, chumps across the world are left to wonder at what happened. The U.S. taxpayer is beginning to realize that she was bamboozled into paying for the right to be fleeced for a long time. The Iraqis are paying with their future, and the rest of the world looks at this naked and raw power grab with disbelief.
The unfortunate interface between the Iraqi citizenry and the lower echelons of the U.S. military will quite naturally result in misery for both. What these two disparate cohorts need to realize is that their common enemy is ensconsed in the Board Rooms and Executive Suites of the military-industrial-federal executive complex.
-Ray, who is glad that we repealed the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798. :) |
