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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (238074)	6/20/2005 1:41:57 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571806

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. I think that's some of it but not all of it. What is difficult for some European psyches to get is that some of these people really believe in a divine mission for the US. They really believe the US is on a mission for God to save the world. That's why Bush is popular. He taps into this fantasy. For those of us who are reality based, its very hard to counter the myth. You see the reaction of an Elroy. His is pretty mild compared to some others. And yes, the leaders who aggressively promote the myth tend to have strong ties to the industries that will benefit most from the promotion of the myth. Its why these people tend to be badly corrupted. ted