From: khaled Alkotob (khaledsa@juno.com)
Date: Sun Sep 25 2005 - 20:03:20 BST
Ah, we finally enter the Sacred Ground.
OUR INTERESTS has been the operative word for a while.
Before the last election, on the official Republican web site they had
the photo of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam. Here was the text from
next to the photo of Donald Rumsfeld biography.
"The most celebrated of these services was his tenure as Middle East
envoy for President Ronald Reagan. By 1983, a war between Iraq and Iran
had been waging for three years. Iraq had initially made significant
progress into Iranian territory but was pushed back on the defensive in
1982 as Iranian troops pushed towards Basra, Iraq's second largest city.
An Iranian victory would have been counter to U.S. interests as it would
destabilize the Gulf region and threaten Saudi Arabia, and hence U.S. oil
supplies. The previously neutral United States decided to act. So in
December 1983, Donald Rumsfeld met with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and
reopened relations between the United States and Iraq that hadn't existed
since 1967."
Our interests at any cost.
Arlo you make the point of other countries' intrests. China's, India's
and so on.
We fail to see that.
But you are right, we tend to see ourselves as the chosen ones. Well I
hate to disappoint the neocons and their buddies that running empires
costs money, requires personnels and diplomacy and intelligence along
with brute power.
Napoleon in Waterloo
Hitler in Saint Petersburg
England in India
France in Algiers
America in Iraq
History, those who fail to read it and understand it, will repeat it.
> [Platt]
> It's part of the survival thing.
>
> [Arlo]
> And so we see how quickly the so-called "free market" erodes in
> favor of American Need. I wonder Platt supports OTHER nations using
their
> military to force US to sell to them in ways that benefit them?
>
> If we can claim "it's part of the survival thing", I'm sure he
> supports them claiming too...
Arlo
> Unless this is another "only America has the Great and Glorious
> Right To Do So"...
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