I like this guy's angle, he's right on in his analysis. However, he kind of misses the point in the broader sense. American never really stood for any of those high principals like human rights and against colonials and for the rule of law. Sure, we spoke like we did, but we never actually practiced those enlightened policies, history is clear on that much. A look at the past 50 years of human history clearly shows the U.S. as the most agressive military force on the planet since 1955. For all our bellowing about Commusism and other "agressive" regimes, the U.S. has been amazingly agressive itself in the world, just look at Iraq and Afghanstan, even the Communists weren't invading and occupying countries half way around the world at will.
What has changed under Bush is that our disregard for these principals of human dignity have just been thrust right out into the open as the Bushies have decided it doesn't matter anymore what people's perception of the U.S. is. Now it is the oil barrons who really set American policy, they are the ones who have directed troops into Iraq and Afghanstan to ensure the free flow of oil, be damned with anything we ever supposedly stood for.
The State of the Union should be interesting, if for nothing else, to hear Bush's twisted justifications for his policies that are screwing over average Americans to benefit big oil. |
