Iraq

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on 2/9/03 2:08 PM, prozak at anus.com at prozak at anus.com wrote:

> i don't mean to be a snipping bastard and leaving out parts of that
> inspired rant, but i must, much as i enjoy a good rant (there is no
> higher use of the internet!). however, this is what i seem to want to
> talk about, and i'm a capricious bastard, so...
> 
>> The US is perhaps 100 years ahead of a united europe. Me, I'm betting on
>> the united states of Mexico and Brazil. Americans have plenty of oil. I
>> wish the United States would focus on Mexico and the rest of America.
>> 9-11 really screwed us Americans and now Europe expects us to keep our
>> military stationed in the middle east to protect their oil while the
>> radical Arabs take shots at out soldiers and blow up our financial
>> centers? 
>> FFFFFForgetabout it. There is your urgency. Let's get this crap over
>> with and get on with what really matters to Americans--free trade across
>> american borders.
> 
> money is the thing.
> 
> there's plenty of oil in this hemisphere; i think this one is a
> political control game to get israel unlimited water so she can
> divorce herself from the palestinian state, something convenient with
> our desire for oil and enforcement in the middle east. my view
> includes the idea that governments are like individuals, and thus all
> of them naturally do all that they can to gain as much power as
> possible. on the global level, this means invading someplace every
> fifteen years and bombing the shit out of it. even if you lose, as in
> viet nam, people look at your villagers peeping out of the craters
> and reconsider messing with the crazy westeners and their high-load
> bombers.
> 
How do you hit a suicidal terrorist in your own city with a high-load
bomber? General Giap's quote is relevant today.