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Post by waltc on May 1, 2011 14:41:07 GMT -6
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Post by mdub on May 7, 2011 23:18:18 GMT -6
Aren't you proud to be and American? We don't have the Bill Of Right anymore. We had to give that up to protect ourselves from terrorists. But we do have junk food, porn, fantasy football, and prescription drugs. Isn't life good?
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Post by graybeard on May 8, 2011 7:15:43 GMT -6
We can't win over there. We have supported the dictators too long, to keep the oil flowing.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on May 8, 2011 9:07:59 GMT -6
We're rapidly going the route of the Roman Empire, with never-ending, un-winable wars, along with "bread-and-circuses" to keep the masses distracted from a sinking economy. Our wars have nothing to do with US security interests, and little to do with humanitarian causes. To the contrary, the main driver is to keep the world safe for U.S. international investors. It's to ensure that US-owned multinationals can continue exploiting foreign resources with reckless abandon--including cheap labor and the environment--to produce goods that they can then sell to the American workers they've defecated on. Again, I highly recommend reading the book Confessions of an Economic Hit-Man by John Perkins. It's a real eye-opener.
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Post by jeffolie on May 8, 2011 9:23:40 GMT -6
We're rapidly going the route of the Roman Empire, with never-ending, un-winable wars, along with "bread-and-circuses" to keep the masses distracted from a sinking economy. Our wars have nothing to do with US security interests, and little to do with humanitarian causes. To the contrary, the main driver is keeping the world safe for U.S. international investors. It's to ensure that US-owned multinationals can continue exploiting foreign resources with reckless abandon--including cheap labor and non-existent environmental laws--to produce goods that they can then sell to the American workers they've defecated on. awesome I completely agree. The politics today are severely impacted by the financial elites attempts to continue milking the status quo cow as long as possible. Politics and economics are 2 sides of the same coin. Today, no country seeks to politically dominate the world...this is done now by the financial elites. The only attempt or promotion of world domination is a group of Islamists who espouse an Islamic world and are gain some ground in the FACEBOOK, Arab Spring in North Africa and selected middle east countries but no where new (Indonesia is the large Islamic country, BTW and not expanding). CEOs are conquering the world again with a 24% average compensation increase that out paces the 2007 peak while '...It's to ensure that US-owned multinationals can continue exploiting foreign resources with reckless abandon--including cheap labor and non-existent environmental laws--to produce goods that they can then sell to the American workers they've defecated on...." and the no justice system results in homeownership declines while the family structure morphs into rogue males and 40% of women saying marriage is obsolete in large part because multinationals/Globalists make it impossible for men to earn enough to support a family.
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Post by waltc on May 8, 2011 12:42:06 GMT -6
The Neocon agenda is still being played out. We're still in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They tried and failed in Libya, their ideology and stooges(like Powers and Clinton) were all too willing for war and conquest but the flesh(military) proved weak.
Bottom line: The Neocons own the GOP establishment and much the Conservative organs like Faux. And they own many in the Democratic party upper echelons(people like Hillary Clinton and Schumer)
You can't oppose them without being smashed into the ground.
Why do you think the foreign policies of both parties are basically identical save for some cosmetic asskissing by Obama to Muslims?
And prior to the rise of the Neocons our foreign policy, even under Reagan wasn't any where near as bellicose as it is now. It didn't go evil until Cheney placed a bunch of Likudniks into positions of power in the Pentagon and White House and dictate foreign policy.
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