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Thread ID: 13205 | Posts: 11 | Started: 2004-04-16
2004-04-16 19:26 | User Profile
[font=Verdana][size=2]This is an old essay, but [url="http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson/wilson12.html"]The Yankee Problem in America[/url] by Dr Clyde Wilson is once again particularly germane. In Mr Bush's frightening, yet amusing, press conference the other night, he said. "I also have this belief, strong belief, that freedom is not this countryôs gift to the world; freedom is the Almightyôs gift to every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread of freedom." So, to translate from BS to English, that means that America has been called by God Himself to spread "freedom", meaning of course secular humanist, capitalist, consumerist democracy, across the entire planet, by force, if necessary. And what is the origin of this be-righteous-like-us-or-we'll-kill-you viewpoint? Why, the Yankees, of course! And ol' Dubya, cowboy hats and drawl notwithstanding, is nothing but a damn Yankee.[/size][/font]
2004-04-16 20:30 | User Profile
When Bush says he believes in a "free and democratic Iraq" he's really saying Iraq should have....... [I][U][B]gay marriages[/B][/U][/I].
2004-04-16 20:31 | User Profile
Quantrill,
Yes, Jorge W. Bush is a Yankee Carpet Bagger from New England. And unlike his Great... Grand-Father he is not a good one!
2004-04-16 21:08 | User Profile
Interesting why only Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and the rest of the Middle East qualify for the purposes of "Democracy" and "Freedom". Just a bit strange dont you think?
2004-04-17 01:50 | User Profile
Can ANYONE please find me a quote i remember GDumbya saying something like "lincoln is someone i admire". Something like that, might have been in an interview with a magazine. Ive yet to find it anywhere, but i distinctly remember reading it.
2004-04-17 03:45 | User Profile
El Presidente Shrub and the neo-Jacobin agenda-->truly heirs of the French Revolution. Long Live the Mob!!!
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2004-04-17 14:37 | User Profile
Peter Philips, I agree that the Middle East is the current focus, but the US bombed some "freedom and democracy" into quite a few other places, such as Bosnia and Kosovo. The countries you mentioned are top priorities because Israel dislikes them and because they have oil, but the American Empire will try to spread the New World Order wherever it can.
2004-04-17 21:12 | User Profile
Quantrill,
I agree. However, I think Iraq will have consequences so far reaching that we cannot possibly fathom them today.
If the US-led coalition has to pull out of Iraq eventually (which is inevitable I think), it will send out a signal to the rest of the world (and especially emerging competitors like China) that the US might be a technological superpower but it has limited capacity for taking punishment in an intense campaign.
Might this eventually encourage the Chinese to take Taiwan (for starters)? If they do, that might be the first shot in a long battle for toppling the United States as the world's no.1 superpower.
Whats happening in Iraq now can only be great news for the Chinese.
2004-04-17 21:15 | User Profile
I don't see any real negative effects of losing our king of the hill status. All it means is that we can't intervene in foreign affairs as freerly as we once did.
2004-04-17 21:17 | User Profile
The US will go the way of all empires -- expansion, overreach, and then decline. We just have to be ready to pick up the pieces and rise from the rubble. The Chinese can only be enjoying the total ineptitude of the Bush regime.
2004-04-17 23:05 | User Profile
Its difficult to say what will happen as the US loses ascendency. I think that a long brutal occupation in Iraq would itself rule out any further "invade and occupy to promote freedom and democracy" plans that the Neo-cons keep coming up with.
This would mean the death of the so-called "Bush doctrine". Id venture to say it is already dead.