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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (130393)4/29/2004 4:59:23 AM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<And what about the war against Islamo-Fascism? Is that a war of survival, given that they continue to seek to deliver another attack comparable to 9/11?> Only one power on earth can defeat the United States, and that power is the United States. Terrorism succeeds to the extent that we destroy ourselves -- and we gave the terrorists the break of a lifetime by invading Iraq because Iraq is part of a process of the US destroying itself. In that single decision we did far more to destroy ourselves than the terrorists who crashed planes into buildings on 9/11 could ever have dreamed of accomplishing. We began a process of self-destruction. We destroyed the credibility of our government, as embodied in the White House. We destroyed our civil liberties when we created our own concentration camp. We destroyed our alliances when we arrogantly adopted unilateral war as our foreign policy. We destroyed our reputation as honest broker by siding with Israel and adopting their militaristic tactics. We destroyed our status as decent people by engaging in collective punishment and failing to mobilize legitimate political processes so that we could "call all the shots" and do some favors for low-lifers like Chalabi. The US has done more damage to itself in the past year than the terrorists could ever have accomplished with their box-cutters and cassette tapes.
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