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Strategies & Market Trends : VOLTAIRE'S PORCH-MODERATED

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To: Jill who wrote (60092)12/20/2003 7:51:05 PM
From: elpolvo  Read Replies (2) of 65232
 
jill and paul-

two very good posts. devoid of exaggeration. i like that.

of all the reading i've done in the past three years
there are a couple of documents that, more than any
news stories or opinion posts or conspiracy theories,
tell the story of the true ideology, direction, motivation
and intent of the current u.s. administration.

both of them are either commissioned by or partially
developed by most of the key players in the administration.

the first is from the project for a new american century:

newamericancentury.org

and the second is from the James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy of Rice University and the Council on
Foreign Relations:

neteffex.com

they are very LONG documents to read but after reading
them, very few readers will have any problem in
seeing the motivation for the wars the u.s. has
started or predicting the future course of action
of the present administration. the documents were both
written before september 11, 2001.

if i were heavily involved and invested in either
the military industrial complex or the energy industry
i might be fully behind these policies... but i'm not.

no one who considers himself/herself a global citizen
can read these objectives and support them. and i'd
be hard pressed to believe that anyone other than a
u.s. citizen could support such policies unless they
were promised either money or protection by the u.s.a.

i don't really have a problem with understanding
their motivations and goals and i agree that they
have a right to believe these policies are well
founded and valuable for them. what bothers me greatly
is that rather than profess these ideas publicly and
work for their acceptance, they choose to distrust
the public in this regard and instead use manipulative,
misleading and dishonest tactics to gain public support.

-elpolvo
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