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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24817)	6/14/2003 6:37:39 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Hawk, You and I have a vastly different worldview. You see a "two-bit revolutionary group...", and I see an indigenous population who are struggling to fight of the colonialists, imperialists and militarists who seek to dominate and conquer in order to exploit local resources. You have the same sort of naive do-gooder worldview that infected "the Quiet American", who Graham Greene disparaged and parodied in his eponymous novel of intrigue in 1950's Viet Nam. A time of moral ambivalence not unlike our own. You mistakenly equate America's power with morality. Very many of us in the U.S., and the majority of the world's population understand that the U.S. foreign policy is clearly aimed at exploitation and unfair advantage for the U.S. corporate and banking interests. Morality has nothing to do with U.S. foreign policy. Quite the opposite is the case. While for decades, we might argue that America's leaders took an amoral position with regard to resource exploitation, today we can clearly see that with the ascendency of the radical fascist neo-conmen that we have veered into the realm of immorality, as well as illegality in our quests for conquest and theft. You might do yourself a favor by attempting, with whatever small bit of ability you have to muster compassion and empathy, to understand the world as it really is. Not as your monomaniacal government brainwashed Manicheanism directs you. I'd suggest a strong component of some erudite reading of Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky's writing on the subject of America's propensity for subjugation of anyone other than the lily white. And then you might want to read from the Enlightenment, Mills, the Federalist Papers, the writings of Jefferson and Franklin, and get some grasp of what these practical men did to deny aristocrats the opportunity to exploit our collective futures here in America. Then perhaps, with a lot of luck, you'll be able to break through the shallow carapace of armor that holds you back from being a complete human being, and makes you appear to be such a caricatured and cranky aggressor without a clue on these threads. Knowing, as you do, that the U.S. purveys the best means of murder is a shallow compensation for failing to understand and object to the whys of America's propensity for murder. Three million Vietnamese, and well over one million Iraqis would thank you from the graves that America made for them, for no reason other than the possibility of plunder. -Ray