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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (303246)9/15/2006 12:47:24 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1574771
 
"They "wanted" another Vietnam just like the neoconservatives "wanted" another Pearl Harbor."

Nonsense. No one wants a Vietnam, which is why some people were so strident in warning against it. By your reasoning, the administration wants more terrorist attacks. Fiscal conservatives want an economic collapse. Ecology, umm, "enthusiasts" want ecological collapse. And so on. Warning against dire consequences doesn't mean someone wants those consequences. In fact, they are usually issuing the warning precisely because they don't want it to happen.

The neocons wanted a New Pearl Harbor because they could see how they could use it to advance their cause. They talked about it because there was something bound to come along that they could twist to their ends, and it did. And they were ready for it. Which is why the rhetoric became disconnected from reality so quickly.
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