. Bob Dylan was 40 years ahead of his time it seems.
We should be crying ...but instead we call these people names and ridicule them... that is utter and complete and inexcusable idiocy. Its not patriotic. ..And it seeds our own destruction at light speed.
its a real dirty world 'travis'... the US lives or dies on the price and availability of middle eastern oil.... we have set our CIA on the job of keeping the region under our thumb for that reason.
Now we have pissed some of these people off. They are coming after us...as guerilla's...untargetable. We in the US one one massive slow floating target.
*We* have a problem now.Could we have just stayed in detante, with the weapons inspectors and all? Maybe...for just a bit longer...but you see the oil producing nations (we call em States, fascinating aint it?_... these were getting hip to our covert inflation of the USD, to ruthless levels and accelerating...and Sadam said that he would only take Euro's!!! (gasp).... that would have tanked us utterly.... as the USD ceased to be the worlds reserve currency.
We simply and utterly cannot afford that.
we are in a fight for our corrupt lives...but a fight for our life as a nation none the less.
Do the corrupt win in the end? Oh no.
Do the corrupt win even after they have swept half of Europe with the biggest war machine in history and the Luftwaffe? No. Power corrupts ... and corruption destroys its host from the inside every single time in world history and in life.
Thats why our arab antagonists are being so patient. these outcomes are entirely predictable. They need not spend any large amount of money to keep the reaction catalyzed. Our Arab associates know this full well...even the friendly ones. they laugh at us in private....
... and... get this please... our Arab antagonists are not any more evil than we are.... not even a jot or a title more evil than we are... they just have different rules, since they don't have nuclear bombs and cruize missiles.... they use what they have... thier children wrapped in explosives.. no man gives more of himself in battle.
Us crass americans are to blind and corrupt to notice that or to cry for these people.
Crassness, and blindness is also fatal to its host. It goes with ignorance, abuse and corruption.
Phil Scott