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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (4192)	7/14/2005 11:57:29 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

We are literally occupying other countries and killing their people, like we are doing in Iraq and Afghanstan. An estimate out of Swtizerland yesterday said we've killed 40,000 Iraqis over the past two years. And we're actually surprised by the murderous response by the muslim world?!? Westerners have become somewhat delusional in their approach to the muslim world and in denial about our bloody policies. I just saw an American Enterprise Institute forum on C-SPAN in which one of the Institute's fellows in answer to a question about why he does not consider the U.S. to be an empire in the classical sense of the term, responded, "because we're not occupying other countries like an empire would". We're not? What planet is he living on?!? We're currenly occupying two countries, no bones about it, Afghanastan and Iraq. He seems to have forgotten this fact, even though it's the main focus of our current foreign policy (denial or just lying?). There are of other countries in which the U.S. has an empire-like influence, such as Panama, but in the case of Afghanastan and Iraq, we are occupying them militarily in an effort to change their government and control their resources. That is called empire building. Now, we witness the backlash in the form of terrorism that is just a fraction of the scale of desrtuction we are doing in Afghanastan and Iraq. Too bad it's the working stiffs in the Western world who have to bear the brunt of our foreign policy backlash, but what else is new? These lives are expendable in the eyes of the empire builders in Washington and London.