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To: philv who wrote (22785)	3/30/2005 4:13:19 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81093

Phil > Converging U.S. Navy aircraft carrier groups in Middle East send strong message to Iran and Syria Actually I wonder what the message is because everyone knows the US has that stuff? So, do they intend to use it and if so to do what? And if they don't intend to use it, then what's the parade all about? Showing off and wasting more money?! > the US "excusing" itself from the Vienna Convention International Court of Justice. Indeed, and that's supposed to be an example for others to follow. > It kind of reminds me of what preceded WWII There's no question about that except, in my opinion, for one major difference -- in 1938-9 the Nazis were revelling in an aura of confidence and omnipotence. They believed they were supreme -- and damn nearly were! In 2005, the US, appears more and more as a nation riddled with self-doubt, even self-hate, mulcted in debt and run by a band of desperados and which is undertaking wars against far weaker and even crippled nations to steal assets and to regain its lost national prestige in a quasi empire-building exercise. Germany went into WW2 to gain what it believed was its rightful place in the hegemony of nations and, at the same time, to punish Britain and France for the Treaty of Versailles. For many reasons, WW2 was really the continuation of WW1. The US will go into WW3, if it happens, with the intention of clinging to its position as the world's only superpower in a hegemony of nations which is increasingly denying the US that status -- and, in my opinion, rightfully so. > except of course that America is acting selflessly for the good of the entire world. There was a time when that was indeed true but times have changed. Today, America is acting only in the interest of its own wealthy and elites -- and, of course, Israel.