Re: Benjamin Netanyahu on Bush's Speech

[The Fool]

> And my point is:  Saddam Hussein is perfectly conscious of the power of
> this particular meme, and has crafted a security-state calculated to
> combat it by inflitrating society sufficiently with informers that you
> never know if you can trust your neighbor, on the one hand, and on the
> other hand by providing a morality play--with a mythical warrior-hero
> persona fighting a mythical enemy on the other--to occupy people's
minds.
> 
> I think that the odds of a spontaneous revolution happening under these
> circumstances are about as remote as the odds that tomorrow all
Americans
> will cut up their credit cards and burn their TVs even though most
> Americans know that it sucks to be in debt and that nearly everything
on
> TV is cerebral novacaine.  It'll take a reinvention of the universe as
it
> exists in public consciousness, not just a series of momentum-building
> acts of valor.

You are implying that the only hope for Iraqis is that some outside force
(like the U.S.) comes in invades and conquers Iraq.