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Politics : Sioux Nation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (58757)	2/20/2006 1:05:43 PM
From: illyia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362373

Karen, I was about to post this to you privately - but then realized that I would like others thoughts as well. You said: <<World Bank in on selling of America port deal.>> One has to assume that this is one of Wolfowitz's objectives. Like the smell of the 2000 elections - this is just too convenient. I had certainly assumed that the head NeoCon would be trying to grab Nigeria's oil - under the cloak of humanitarianism... what a word! But there is much more to this than meets the eye. Added to which is that the tipping point was reached with those onerous cartoons - which are not really the focus of the protests anymore. Could Iran be any happier with these shows of disdain for western/capitalist/american ways. Wolfowitz, for all his academic smarts, is blind to some cultural realities. He appears to be fitting a formula onto the global scene without regard for basic truths of human beings: cultural loyalty, indifference to our "message", exhaustion of hope for american impartiality. He did not take account of the real needs of people in his calculation in Iraq, Katrina - Social Security, Medicare D, or anything else effecting the citizenry. He did not take into account the youth of Iraq. For all his book learning (and I suspect he is as much an Israeli as an American, in agreement per AIPAC, Feith, Perle's Office of Special Plans was an open door to Israeli generals...) he appears to not understand how people really behave. Is he stupid? I do not think so. I think he is one smart cookie. Smarter than everyone around him. That is why he is now head of the World Bank. (I would imagine, therefore, that his plans have something to do with money...eh?) Sharon came to understand the nature of demographics very late - and only then, just before his stroke, would he negotiate, knowing that the numbers of Palestinians would grow beyond any number of Jews that Israel could attract/produce. He had no recourse. Surely Wolfowitz would have learned from Sharon's mistake? Wouldn't he? He would have been able to see the unemployed youth in Iraq behaving like bad boys do everywhere: Only with guns and a motive supplied by gang-like leadership. Did he ignore the obvious? Or are the protests, Katrina, the deficit/debt, etc., simply irrelevant? This is what I fear. All the evidence point to indifference - not because of overlooking the problem, but because those problems are secondary to the ones at hand...the real problems. Thoughts?