Micom 2000
Veteran Member
I did tell Eric I'd be good, but the present state of affairs is just as pressing as during the Viet-Nam war and I think it is too important to simply pretend it's not happening. And while I could tell my grandchildren that I was an activist during that time when the "Hard-hats" would beat up those who opposed the war, how could I explain how I didn't speak out during an even more viscious war, and when the liberties of the the US people are even more in question. When even speaking out had greater penalties than a fist in your face or a club over your head. Not only social approbrium, but arrrest for opposing imperial power.
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The policies of the present US administration which in it's attempt to stave off the problems of "Peak Oil" and to dominate oil production in the middle-east has clearly come accropper. The death-count of young brain-washed US soldiers and Canadian troops in Afghanistan regularly increases, not to mention the greater toll on the Iraqui and Afghani people.
What is becoming clear is that no matter what your power, you cannot simply impose your will on a country's people. A lesson that should have been learned in Viet-Nam.
Despite this the administration continues it's follies, and even the original attack on Afghanistan is beginning to turn sour . The occupying troops are coming under increasing attacks by the Taliban, and will likely eventually be forced out of the country. This has been the fate of most invaders of Afghanistan for centuries. The Soviet Union possibly fell because of it, altho aided by the support the US gave to the Taliban and who even established Al Khaeda thru it's contacts to Saudi-Arabia.
And at it's bottom line, was a Bush image of a trans-Afghanistan pipeline to the Persian Gulf from the oil-rich former Soviet-Union states. Pushed by Union-Oil. now called Unico. A compliant client state which would be headed by the heroin-producing northern war-lords, who were even more anti-democratic than the Taliban, should that be possible, but without the guidance of a theocracy.
A simple examination of the mid-east map will show that Iran is sandwiched between Afghanistan and Iraq, with the notoriously repressive client state of Saudi-Arabia nearby. Most analysts expect an air-strike on Iran before the congressional elections, guised under the Iranian threat of a nuclear device. This ignores the possession of nuclear arms by Israel, India, and Pakistan, not to mention the United States. At one time there was an agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States to destroy their nuclear weapons. This was abrogated by the US under Reagan. It's no wonder most people outside the US view the US as the main threat to world peace and possibly destruction.
Unfortunately the brainwashing effect of most of the US media alleviates any concerns about the present situation. I find it tragedic to a people who I held heroic and a beacon to those who hoped for a better world. Perhaps that's why so many of the worlds people now hate the US Imperial government, and despair at why the US people haven't asserted themselves.
If this stays on the forum I expect the usual hate-mail, but possibly you could make a coherent refutation instead.
Lawrence
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The policies of the present US administration which in it's attempt to stave off the problems of "Peak Oil" and to dominate oil production in the middle-east has clearly come accropper. The death-count of young brain-washed US soldiers and Canadian troops in Afghanistan regularly increases, not to mention the greater toll on the Iraqui and Afghani people.
What is becoming clear is that no matter what your power, you cannot simply impose your will on a country's people. A lesson that should have been learned in Viet-Nam.
Despite this the administration continues it's follies, and even the original attack on Afghanistan is beginning to turn sour . The occupying troops are coming under increasing attacks by the Taliban, and will likely eventually be forced out of the country. This has been the fate of most invaders of Afghanistan for centuries. The Soviet Union possibly fell because of it, altho aided by the support the US gave to the Taliban and who even established Al Khaeda thru it's contacts to Saudi-Arabia.
And at it's bottom line, was a Bush image of a trans-Afghanistan pipeline to the Persian Gulf from the oil-rich former Soviet-Union states. Pushed by Union-Oil. now called Unico. A compliant client state which would be headed by the heroin-producing northern war-lords, who were even more anti-democratic than the Taliban, should that be possible, but without the guidance of a theocracy.
A simple examination of the mid-east map will show that Iran is sandwiched between Afghanistan and Iraq, with the notoriously repressive client state of Saudi-Arabia nearby. Most analysts expect an air-strike on Iran before the congressional elections, guised under the Iranian threat of a nuclear device. This ignores the possession of nuclear arms by Israel, India, and Pakistan, not to mention the United States. At one time there was an agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States to destroy their nuclear weapons. This was abrogated by the US under Reagan. It's no wonder most people outside the US view the US as the main threat to world peace and possibly destruction.
Unfortunately the brainwashing effect of most of the US media alleviates any concerns about the present situation. I find it tragedic to a people who I held heroic and a beacon to those who hoped for a better world. Perhaps that's why so many of the worlds people now hate the US Imperial government, and despair at why the US people haven't asserted themselves.
If this stays on the forum I expect the usual hate-mail, but possibly you could make a coherent refutation instead.
Lawrence
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