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Originally posted by DC Dalton:
[QB]To me it seems like the US is perceived as the "schoolyard bully" running around flexing its muscle & Im wondering if thats not a fairly accurate description.
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I'm just saying...it's right there!
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
I guess the real question is why should the US care what other countries think of us?
Does India care what the US thinks of it?
I'm just saying...it's right there!
Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
I guess the real question is why should the US care what other countries think of us? Does India care what the US thinks of it? Does Saudi Arabia stay up nights worrying about how the US feels about them?
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Originally posted by DC Dalton:
I just wish the REAL voice of the US people could be heard...
Wasn't it heard during the last elections?
Lots of press but... I was just wondering... when did the prescription drug subsidy pass Congress?Originally posted by Rufus BugleWeed:
No it was not heard. Certain groups seem to vote more than others. Social Security recipients are a block of subsidize voters. Did you notice how much press prescription drugs got?
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Originally posted by Rufus BugleWeed:
The prescription drug plan won't get passed until just before the 2004 election, Thomas. How's the Simpson say it - Duh?
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How else could the Republicans have done so well, right?
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Without mideast oil the US economy and life as we know it is bye, bye.
The main US oil suppliers are:Originally posted by Rufus BugleWeed:
The US depends materially on mideast oil for it's supplies and for the economic well being of it's trading partners about the world. Without mideast oil the US economy and life as we know it is bye, bye.
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Why would the US want Iraq's oil? We have no oil shortage in the US. We have plenty of partners who are happy to sell us oil. We are helping other countries expand their oil drilling. Is Iraq oil very sweet tasting? Does it go great with pancakes? Why is Iraq's oil more desirable than Mexico's?Originally posted by Sudharsan G'rajan:
Really! The proposed attack on Iraq is gnerally perceived as an act to gain more oil fields, not as an attack against terrorism. But what does US really plan to do with all the oil reserves at Alaska?
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
Now explain why an invasion of Iraq is about oil.
Originally posted by Rufus BugleWeed:
None of this is on view from outside the continent. Yesterday's editorial in the NYTimes
A War for Oil? by Tom Friedman makes the point better than I do.
Originally posted by Rufus BugleWeed:
The view from outside the continental 48 is that the US will attempt to set up another puppet that caters to US economic interests.
I think the US would be very happy to have a government in Iraq that doesn't like us as long as they don't build WMD's or support terrorists. There are plenty of countries that don't like us that we don't plan to invade (Cuba for example) because they aren't a threat to us.Originally posted by Rufus BugleWeed:
The view from outside the continental 48 is that the US will attempt to set up another puppet that caters to US economic interests. That's the Republican way.
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Originally posted by DC Dalton:
What history books are you reading!
Originally posted by DC Dalton:
That may be the view, but history doesn't back this up.
What history books are you reading!
Half of the governments in the middle east were supplied & trained by the CIA or another branch of the US government! Have we forgotten Iran, & the fact that we supplied the early years of Saddam's regime! Have we forgotten that the US supplied Afganistan to fight the Russians?
We set these people up to help us screw with another countries & then end up fighting our own damn weapons.... why the hell don't we just stay the hell out of other peoples business, try taking care of our own INTERNAL problems. If they want to kill each other fine, so be it...why the hell do we have to be the world's babysitter!
In my opion this is the EXACT reason half the world is pissed off at us, we cant mind our own damn business. We have this "vision" that every country has to be just like us.....well folks that isnt ever gonna happen, Tradition, religion & other aspects will always effect how a country runs itself.
I'm just saying...it's right there!
Originally posted by Jason Menard:
The ones that are applicable to the direction this looks like it may be heading in. The assertion is that we will invade Iraq and set up a new government there. Fair enough. Let's look at where this has actually happened: Germany, Japan, Bosnia (still ongoing), and to some extent Afghanistan (still ongoing). All of these were their own unique situations, but we along with our allies still had influence in the direction they went after the war and we and our allies contributed much to reconstruction.
As I said, look at circumstances where we have actually taken military action and performed reconstruction afterwards. These are the only cases that are remotely applicable.
I'm just saying...it's right there!
Originally posted by Pakka Desi:
US actively supports or has supported puppet regimes in Afghanistan, Iran (before the revolution), Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. I know of these for sure. Others I don't know. US supported these regimes irrespective of their idiology only because they helped american interests.
These are the only cases that are remotely applicable.