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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (209427)	10/30/2004 7:23:46 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574884

You could start by reading the article. ;-) I read the article........twice. The drug war is a cover story. We are trying to prevent Colombia from arranging their economy to suit their own needs. Same story as Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Greece, France, etc. I'm afraid that's too complicated a conspiracy theory for me to get behind. What I believe is that we want others to do certain things that are in our national interest. For a long time, it was the communist threat. Those mean, socialistic commies were going to get us. With that threat ebbing, we had to come up with new threats. For an example, controlling the drug trade in Colombia and reducing their drug exports to the US. Its partly because drugs do present a problem but its mostly about US intel and State Dep't ensuring job security while placating the paranoid/xenophobic fears of the right in this big and beautiful country. So we support a gov't that may do our bidding but which is abusive to its people and restricts their freedoms. Much like we did with Saddam in the 1980s in his war against Iran. To suggest that we tailor our foreign policy to suppress and manipulate the economies of the rest of the world's nations suggests a sophistication and complexity to US intel and the State Dep't that I just don't buy. Its much more basic than that.........its in response to the fears of the average American. When I learned and finally understood what our gov't was doing in those far off places, I was surprised........I could not imagine why their actions diverged so significantly from the American credo and the seeming idealism of the American public. In the past 4 years, I've grown to realize and now accept that the Amer. gov'ts actions do not diverge from the whim of the American public. Its what many Americans want.......and for the rest of us, we have been too busy living our lives to notice. Its cracks me up now when I meet foreigners. They always say they love Americans but they hate the American gov't. In reality, they should hate Americans because the nature of the American gov't and its behavior overseas is exactly what many of Americans want. Most Americans have never been outside this country......not even to Canada or Mexico. To them, the world is a huge and dangerous place that's need to be tamed. That's why articles like you posted don't get much traction with the general population. Its message is not nearly as offensive to most Americans as it is to you or me. Soooooooo.......as I see it, the primary goal of our foreign intervention is not to manipulate the economies of other nations although if it happens that's all the better but rather to make us feel safer in the world and keep all the riffraff in their part of the world. Hence, start a war in Iraq so the big bad terrorists don't bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago. I beginning to see that the Bush administration's biggest crime is verbalizing what many have understood intuitively; that is, its a big bad crazy world out there and those foreign, slimy masses want what we have......the good life. So kill them before they kill us. And kill as many of them as you can. God bless America! ted