Iraq

[David Morris]

You are starting to sound like Millison.

--- Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:
> 
> America has already lost, bro. Any war with Iraq from a military pov
> is a forgone conclusion. It is as ridiculous as attacking Rhode
> Island, at least in the short term. Later, with regional destabilization,
> guerilla movements, terrorism, etc., the real cost of "victory" will
> become known.
> 
> But this stand by the French and especially the Germans is quite
> unique and unprecedented. We should have been able to see it
> in the demeanor of Rumsfeld. He is anything but the representation
> of a strong and self-assured super-power. He is, rather, the 
> personification of our weakness: blustery and arrogant. He is
> anything but masterful and persuasive. Powell, who is capable
> of being human, is much more powerful, but, alas, he is trapped in his
> role. He sold his soul when he signed on to the Bush administration.
> Better men have succumbed to ambition. Still, there is the heroic
> racial archetype of Jackie Robinson, but this ain't baseball. Unfortunately,
> it seems, war has become our new national pastime.
> 
> No. It's all over 'cept for the screamin' and the shoutin', which may come
> quickly. The real competition has not been between America and
> Iraq, or Osama and Bush, but between Oceania: the English-speaking
> world, and what Rumsfeld, in his dreams, wishes were the slightly less
> advanced, Euro-alliance- headed by the Germans and the French. The
> Euros have a longer and clearer vision of the world, which includes
> strength through diplomacy and compromise. The Euros have gained
> significant power from overcoming their thousand year history of
> regionalism, and it shows.
> 
> America, with its assumption of divine right to cheap oil and rigged
> markets, has already lost, no matter what happens in the middle east.
> America, as the world's mega-consumer- bloated and staggering
> around the ring- is going down; not out, we'll survive, but, god willing,
> humbler and more respecting of the world community. Perhaps we
> might even re-consider re-joining the world community and signing on
> to Kyoto.
> 
> Entropy works both ways- as America declines the rest of the world
> rises. We just need a little grace, is all. Or, to paraphrase the late
> Dag Hammarskjöld:
> 
>        Do not seek entropy. Entropy will find you.
> 
> respectfully
> 
> 


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