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To: tejek who wrote (237883)	6/20/2005 4:51:03 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571707

Re: I am unclear the real cause but its clear now that the American press is censoring certain information about Iraq and Iraqis. Of course there is censorship by the media-military complex --as was the case for every major conflict, from WWI on.... Lately, I've been mulling over the notion that the whole Iraq war, somehow, had more to do with the domestic state of affairs in the US than it had with the Middle East and Iraq... Or, to put it otherwise, suppose for a moment that the EU already had armed forces 500,000 strong. Would it have made it more likely to send them off to Iraq, alongside the US's? Nope! Because Europeans don't share the same psyche as Americans. Europeans have not built the same ties with the military, urban violence, and religious chauvinism.... We don't have an NRA over here, nor do we put dozens of criminals on death row every year... Europeans don't enjoy a bloated, worldwide military apparatus like the Pentagon, they don't maintain navy fleets in all the oceans or hundreds of thousands of troops in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, etc. Yet they don't feel insecure. Moreover, unlike white Americans living in the Sun Belt, Southern Europeans (Spaniards, Italians, Frenchmen,...) don't patrol THEMSELVES the Mediterranean to chase after illegals on their way north... The only people in Europe who behave as shamelessly as anti-immigrant Americans are Corsicans: Moroccans and Algerians, and Africans in general, who live AND WORK in the Corsican island live in a state of permanent fear --fear of terroristic racism. Yet Corsica is a special, unique case. So, my point is that "waging war abroad" is actually not so much about solving problems abroad, not so much about enforcing "regime change" abroad as it is to defuse problems AT HOME! All this messy, global crusading against al qaeda and "ugly Islamists" stems first and foremost from the derelict, racial, boiling brew in the US itself! Afghanistan and Iraq merely happen to be convenient outlets whereto US elites can channel the excess violence and hatred spawned by the US hotbed.... Europe, on the other hand, is not fraught with such racial and religious hatred/violence --yet. Hence European leaders are not faced with the same urgency to deflect their internecine violence to overseas bugbears. Gus