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The Right is Crazy
Iraq isn't Vietnam. It truly was a different war and they had tungston
steel in SE Asia, not oil -- which was essential for armor plating. We
were running out. They had it (BUT now we use depleted uranium)...
Iraq is George W. Bush's war for U.S. hegemony, to control oil reserves
because that is going to make his oil buddies a lot richer than they
already are and he can say he wants to do it for democracy and anyone who
opposes occupation "hates freedom," but who believes that?
Even some Republicans don't like this guy. He doesn't stand up to the
scrutiny of the right or the left. He is a failure as a leader but he is a
success to a lot of the "gold ole boys" really believe
the many lies of George W. Bush.
(including my daughter's not so bright right-wing boy friend)
"Americans have historically seen their role in the world in altruistic
terms. "We just try to be good," they say, "to help others, to bring
peace and prosperity, and look what we get in return." In fact, movies
such as John Ford's The Searchers and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver or
books like Graham Greene's The Quiet American, which provide
fundamental insight into the naive benevolence of Americans, have
never been more relevant than with today's global U.S. ideological
offensive. As Greene said about his American protagonist, who
sincerely wants to bring democracy and Western freedom to the
Vietnamese, only to see his intentions totally misfire: "I never knew
a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused."
(Foreign Policy - 1/1/2004 - by Slavoj Zizek in Weird Logic of Dreams
and Weird Logic of George W. Bush )
"The supposition underlying these good intentions is that underneath
our skins, we are all Americans. If that is humanity's true desire,
then all that Americans need to do is to give people a chance,
liberate them from their imposed constraints, and they will embrace
America's ideological dream. No wonder the United States has moved
from "containing" the enemy to promoting a "capitalist revolution," as
Stephen Schwartz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies put
it in February 2003. The United States is now, as the defunct Soviet
Union was decades ago, the subversive agent of a world revolution."
(Zizek)
To mention just once more those nuts on the right:
Ann Coulter is a typical darling of the crazy right. She did write a
column for the conservative National Review, but they dropped her when she
offered up her prescription for dealing with Muslims. She said: "We should
invade their countries. Kill their leaders, and convert them to
Christianity."
No wonder it is impossible to debate or even talk to the right.
They're crazy.
Hank Roth
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