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Posted by parhad (Guest) - Friday, April 30 2004, 14:27:00 (CEST)
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those of us who lived through the Vietnam War era must be feeling the shock of deja vu all over again. The military fiasco part is predictable. We seem always to be "surprised" when human beans act like we would..when they don`t like being attacked for no reason...no matter how noble sounding the goal of the attackers..theydon`t like it...we don`t like it...no one does.

But its the same line-up in the press, the same people writing the same kinds of op-ed pieces..the same pooh-pooing of those ditzy "liberals" who said "naive" things like going into a war with no real purpose...a war instigated by a presdient and based on lies he depended upon to get our blood boiling..has built within it the seeds of its own "quagmire" making machinery. It`s a war that can never be won...not in any meaningful sense and it`s a war that won`t achieve its stated goals...especially when the goals are the forcing of our notions of freedom and democracy down people`s throats at the end of a gun barrel.

You couldn`t get people to drink Coca-Cola based on that approach..they`d have to at least like the taste...and when no one likes the way our "democracy" tastes and our "freedom" goes flat and then sour...no amount of gunfire is going to make them feel differently.

But there are journalists who will always apparently believe it was "inevitable" and "worth the price" and "foolish if not downright dangerous" not to...that we had to "hang tough" and all the rest of it. But of course we don`t hang tough...we just kill tough and kill a lot without it apparently phasing us. But then the dead soldier`s coffins pile up and the government and the corporations who bought and paid for it and who are profitting handsomely from military sales get nervous because they know the necessity for the war only sounded good and noble so long as no Americans died and the dead pile up and they pile up and then maybe someone wants to read the names of the dead and there`s fear in mudville so the public has to be tweaked and fine-tuned, but the beginning of the end is near so contracts have to be signed off on quickly and deals struck between the Quislings, Kannas and the rest or they can`t count on finding "supporters of Freedom" in the next "beleagured country" they designate just as soon as the US Treasury is filled back up and it`s discovered that there`s a new band of barefoot "threats to all we hold dear"...and we`re off and killing and getting more of "our dear" boys and girls killed whose families will, "always be in our prayers".

As H.L. Menken wrote..."no one ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the American public".

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eerie reminders... parhad - Friday, April 30 2004, 14:27:00 (CEST)
- Re: eerie reminders... Tony - 04/30 18:54
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