"What makes Saddam any more dangerous than Kadhafi? Or Yeltsin?
Or Suharto? Can anyone shed any light on this one?"
To me, returning to and addressing the Sadam incident is
a distraction to give rise to "honor" and "thoughts"
that we're really getting great things done. I'm impressed
in the opposite way.
When we did it the first time, I thought it was neat and
underhanded how U. S. was returned cash for some otherwise
depreciating military weapons. I didn't like the taste
of this new world order stuff as well. It has some warrish
inflection about it where no one needs to take the blame,
and is probably necessary with the death of communism.
Nothing to fear now but fear itself?
But now nations can flock together with strangely communistic
interests to beat up on a scape goat "even in the name of Allah".
Some can kick back cash, or send a few boats, and it's
really nobody's fault, and supposedly for the good of all.
Comically, I see Sadam as useful while he lives. Clinton can
raise his great cloak and kick him around. He provides a
distraction from greater worldly problems much as a football
does when we mortals watch a game on TV.
The problem is this "new world order" itself. It will show
to us as such when we start getting kicked around. Too bad!
It doesn't even seem so hot to me now.
Yesterday I heard on the radio of Canadian fears,
they may be living under U. S. flags in 10 years. Still sounds
OK until we remember there's a little place called China,
over populated, and welcomed to think we are growing their
wheat!
I'm taking this too far because it's only necessary to say
the attempts at economic distortion are "band-aids" and will not last
as long as those who applied them would like. It will be
harder and harder to keep them in place until the game
isn't worth the candle, and then it will be too late.
All this new found power is the Cowboy and Indian stage of
things to come, and strangely enough the latest casualty
has been the value of gold in an attempt to keep things
moving right along. We must be the judge of what to place
our value on, and I'm registering a little cool about the
international distorting trend that has begun. Somehow,
some day, I think I may even smell Hitler mentality
for the first time, but people will be running around
with gold under their hats long before then.
Dave |
