Dear Roger, You state, "500, 501 and the other preparations are miracles-in-being whose > greatness, despite the passage of time, has in no way been fully > realised. Similarly we have hardly explored the energies available to us > naturally (and I don't mean fossil fuels). The opportunity to do so - > indeed, I feel I should say 'necessity' - is upon us. From now until > the bombs start falling, and never mind that the time of year or month > is 'incorrect', make preparations for the future. After the last > desperate empirical doomed-to-failure grasp of the 'western' nations at > world supremacy is over, we will all be too busy chopping wood and > carrying water!"
I think that you have hit the nail right on the head. As long as there is cheap fossil fuel, and most of the American people are prepared to sell their birthright and also the birthright of every person on the planet, for access to sharing the dream, of GW, Cheney and Rumsfeld and company, of total world domination there is not much chance for anyone who does not share that dream with them. There is not a single facet of life over the whole planet that the US does not try to influence or control in one way or another. For a country that started off with such high ideals and freedoms to set out to take the freedom of billions of people from them is for me incomprehensible. Is it only oil that the US is after or is it power over all decisions made by anyone in all facets of life? It will be really amazing to see what happens world wide when the bombs start dropping. To me the only honourable outcome for this war is George. W. Bush and Saddam Hussein to have a pistol duel in prime news time, with the winner to have a regime change in the others country. It would make a great New Years Day spectacular on CNN. Have a great Christmas and dont let the great American spin doctors stuff up your Christmas. James Hedley
