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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22696)	3/18/2005 7:06:51 PM
From: The Vet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 80976

Searle, how can "other nations are enriching themselves" possibly happen while they are getting paper promises and the US is getting actual goods and services with real value.... The game goes on for as long as the "other nations" finally figure out that a vault full of US denominated debt printed up without limit doesn't actually "enrich" anybody except the country that managed to trick them to exchange it for real wealth. The moment TSHTF the US simply does the same trick as many 3rd world countries have already done... Declare a "new dollar" that replaces the old one on a 1 "new" to 100 to 1,000 "old" dollars, print a bunch of these up and pay off the debt. All debt in the US is discounted to 1% or 0.1% of the old total and the game starts again in earnest. So much for the holders of the "old dollars"..... suckers; if you don't like it we will send the balance as cruise missiles, fully armed and flying....

To: sea_urchin who wrote (22696)	3/18/2005 8:21:57 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80976

>...it is quite conceivable that in the not too distant future they [other nations] will be able to exist independently of dear old Uncle Sam -- much to Uncle Sam's chagrin. Hence his belligerence. globalresearch.ca >>While the document follows in the footsteps of the administration's "preemptive" war doctrine as detailed by the Neocons' Project of the New American Century (PNAC), it goes much further in setting the contours of Washington's global military agenda. It calls for a more "proactive" approach to warfare, beyond the weaker notion of "preemptive" and defensive actions, where military operations are launched against a "declared enemy" with a view to "preserving the peace" and "defending America". The document explicitly acknowledges America's global military mandate, beyond regional war theaters. This mandate also includes military operations directed against countries, which are not hostile to America, but which are considered strategic from the point of view of US interests. From a broad military and foreign policy perspective, the March 2005 Pentagon document constitutes an imperial design, which supports US corporate interests Worldwide. "At its heart, the document is driven by the belief that the U.S. is engaged in a continuous global struggle that extends far beyond specific battlegrounds, such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The vision is for a military that is far more proactive, focused on changing the world instead of just responding to conflicts such as a North Korean attack on South Korea, and assuming greater prominence in countries in which the U.S. isn't at war. (WSJ, 11 March 2005) The document suggests that its objective also consists in "offensive" rather than run of the mill "preemptive" operations. There is, in this regard, a subtle nuance in relation to earlier post-911 national security statements: "[The document presents] 'four core' problems, none of them involving traditional military confrontations. The services are told to develop forces that can: build partnerships with failing states to defeat internal terrorist threats; defend the homeland, including offensive strikes against terrorist groups planning attacks; influence the choices of countries at a strategic crossroads, such as China and Russia; and prevent the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by hostile states and terrorist groups." (Ibid) The emphasis is no longer solely on waging major theater wars as outlined in the PNAC's Rebuilding America's Defenses, Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century" , the March 2005 military blueprint points to shifts in weapons systems as well as the need for a global deployment of US forces in acts of Worldwide military policing and intervention. The PNAC in its September 2000 Report had described these non-theater military operations as "constabulary functions"<<