Good evening again, Gordon! Gordon Wilmoth wrote to Frank Reichert...
> Once again, an excellent post. > Indeed, it is hard to sell liberty abroad when you aren't buying it at home. > Iraq and Afghanistan may well indeed be our Waterloo. Ya know, I've given some thought to this now for quite some time actually. I've wondered how we managed to finally recover after the fiasco of the Vietnam War, and still remain in tact, and relative safety from outside aggression -- until that is, essentially until 9-11. Perhaps one of the reasons for that might be due to Vietnam being an ideologically based war, whereas the US meddling in the Middle East is seen as a war against a culture and religion. Most of those who hate us so much aren't necessarily islamic government leaders, but the grassroots muslims who are stired up by non-government extremist elements that have long been a part of such societies throughout the islamic world. In constrast, grassroots individuals living behind the Iron Curtain, or the Bamboo Curtain, probably weren't as enthused as their governments were in bringing down the West, or America in particular. Obviously the Communist rulers may have wanted to do that, which is why a government would have thought twice about being caught in the middle of something as crazy as 9-11, knowing that they would face massive US retaliation. This difference is contrasted by the obvious differences between the Vietnam era, and the post 9-11 era today. The above difference would have made it unthinkable for a Communist government to directly bring an attack upon America itself, fearing gravely that instability following a US retaliation would give the people living under Marxist fear a chance to rise up and topple a government based upon tyranny and abuse of power. The reverse is true since 9-11. The Islamic tyrannies such as Saudi Arabia and others also fear these islamic purist factions for their own government's survival. But, and here's the difference, the large and growing islamic extremist factions WANT such instability to help overthrow the Saudi government, and you could likely throw in Egypt and a few others into the same mix. So, to keep things brewing in their favour, we are perhaps in a hopeless Waterloo in Iraq! The grassroots extremist elements probably want the US intervention in Iraq in order to build a groundswell of growth, support and recruitment of more terrorists; and those terrorists will work full time around the clock to find ways in which to target both US interests at home and abroad, as well as various Islamic governments that have been at odds of the islamic fundamentalist extremists in their own countries. Eventually, if this continues on course, the US will take a tremendous economic, political and military beating in Iraq and be forced to withdraw. But the damage from this intervention and meddling will have already been done, and the extremists will like control more, not less governments in the Middle East and elsewhere, than the currently do. Just some further thoughts. Kindest regards, Frank _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
