--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Robert Gimbel <babajii_99@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Why this man should give us all nightmares > > By ANN LESLIE 19:17pm 23rd August 2006 > > > > > >Iran's president Almadinejad: Threatened to wipe Israel off the > map > > > > Nope, he did no such thing. Bad translation of > > what he actually said. > > > > That doesn't mean he shouldn't give us nightmares, > > but not for threatening to wipe Israel off the map. > > > Similar situation to the cold war, where we engaged the Soviet Union > in this insane arms race, making each side more and more afraid of > the other. Let's just act like adults and meet with the guy, for > God's sake. All of this posturing and blustering from the US makes > us look rediculous. PS and Cuba too for that matter. > > I've said this before, but if we approached one of those countries > and said we want X, Y, and Z from you and in return we will give you > A and B, they'd be pleased. And if they screw up, we withdraw the > offer. > > It seems like the biggest problem we face in the US is incoherent > foreign policy and weak leadership. It has little to do with the > supposed threats posed by these other countries. For one thing we > spend more on weapons than the next 25 countries combined. >
As always, it is good to ask: "who benefits?" from the current stituation. The answer is: the people who make the arms and who otherwise profit from wartime activities. When you figure out who they are and what relationshiop they have with the Powers That Be, you are very close to feeling like you live in an Olver Stone movie. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
