On Thursday, September 6, 2012, Mugsy Lunsford wrote: > intriguing point of view, expressed well > > > http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/09/04/in-one-hour-the-dnc-convinced-me-im-not-tolerant/ > > > > It's the thing I noticed about the two conferences .... the homogeny of the Tampa crowd and the diversity of the other ... it is also interesting that it seems to be an ideological debate between historical stereotypes as if the last thirty years [ which means the last 10 haven't] haven't happened or if they have they must not be acknowledged .... the world has changed almost beyond recognition since 1975 ... the internet .. geopolitics ... social politics .. war on terror which enables domestic enforcement of "we are at war" laws [ see wwII re treason etc] without having to acknowledge it to the ordinary person instead by omission indicate that it is still ok to go on with daily life and be woo'd by tax cuts and be swayed by blather about other peoples private lives... that there are no global issues that have a direct impact on everyday domestic life that one of the reasons that the money isn't available for education and health and tax cuts etc is because of the various economic crisises world wide and the huge expense of the actual real "war on terror "
For instance it is "fighting season " in Afganistan ... and it looks like the Taliban have a good score ... and it kinda looks like vietnam deja vu all over again some of the men the coalition are training to take over when they make their staged retreat 2014 .. [they call them insurgents but they are Taliban ] these men are plants and open fire when it is possible to kill the men training them ... it is called a Green on Blue attack after the colour of the berets ... http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/green-on-blue-the-new-face-of-war-in-afghanistan-20120830-253ib.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/world/asia/corruption-remains-intractable-in-afghanistan-under-karzai-government.html?pagewanted=all http://citizenjournalistreview.wordpress.com/us-war-casualties-afghanistan-by-date/ http://icasualties.org/oef/ and of course it is a shame that the Syrian issue has come when everyone is busy elsewhere if ever there was a dictator that needed a swift excision ... though they could just all move on to Syria after the huge success thats been had rebuilding Afghanistan http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-news/2012/08/22/syrian-civil-war-could-persist-post-assad/ so who ever is president this coming term will have all that out their plate as well as the deficit etc etc > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:;> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:;>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
