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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (116077)	10/2/2003 1:52:53 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

re: It's stupid, but it's consistent with past patterns of stupidity. Logical, in the sense of being internally consistent, yes. Logic is entirely compatible with a set of initial false assumptions. GIGO, false assumptions leading to failing methods (or methods that succeed at the cost of Our souls and heaps of Their corpses). But in between, an elegant and elaborate and internally consistent intellectual framework, continuously reinforced by battalions of hi-IQ think-tankers and former CEOs. This is how the American Empire is managed, in the Age of Lies. False Assumptions: 1. All 6B+ people on the planet secretly yearn to be Americans. 2. America has the means and will to escalate the level of violence, till our enemies capitulate. 3. Domino Theory: if we knock over one defenseless ME regime (Iraq, chosen precisely because it did not pose any real threat to the U.S.), the rest will yield. 4. We have enough money and guns, so no rules apply to us. 5. We can borrow without limit, shifting the burden of paying for wars onto unborn taxpayers. 6. We can substitute machines for bodies, win our wars and permanently dominate the planet, while suffering trivial levels of casualties. 7. The Law of UnIntended Consequences has been repealed; Control Freaks can predict the future. 8. The American public has a short attention span, will accept the crudest hypocrisy, and won't punish liars (this one may be true, but I keep hoping it'll change).