Is this “WINNING THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS”?

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Wow! What a development! Thanks to George Bush, Arabs are now debating about POLITICS!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT???

What will they tell us next – that thanks to George Bush, the Earth is an Oblate Spheroid???

Shit, I though we had that model working pretty well. Must be obsolete. It’s too late now, we have to go with the candidate we have not the one we want.

Second, though the introduction of the World’s other troubled spots to this topic is largely irrelevent, I would like to point out that any discussion of U.S. reaction to any crisis must consider the role our occupation of Iraq has played in our growing inability to influence World events outside the Mideast.

Who knows? The government of Myanmar may have welcomed the U.S. military if we hadn’t established a reputation for staying where we’re not wanted. And maybe other oppressors would take more notice if we didn’t have countless foreign nationals in secret prisons?

While you are at it, there’s a hesitation between the end of the punch line and the smile when the McCatatonic is in speech mode, see if that bad lag could be shortened.

None have been overthrown overtly with an Armed Invasion until Bush did it to Iraq. This was a very dangerous precedent…opening Pandora’s box…and achieving unexpected (to Bush anyhow)consequences, like the rise in Iranian Influence.

There’s a reason why the world condems armed overthrow of a country by a foreign power, in spite of the many bad guys running regimes in this world. How would the US like to be invaded by someone to End Slavery in the 19th century.

If Kermit Roosevelt and his CIA agents hadn’t precipitated the overthrow of Mosedegh in 1953, Iran today might be a thriving Islamic democracy in the Middle East.

This is the new opposite world we are living in.

How’s it feel to be raped by the Oil Speculators?

Just another FUN PRODUCT brought to you by Bushco.

Do they have oil?

Nope, too late now, we’ll never know how many people died that we could have helped.

And no, they don’t. Neither does Darfur, Rwanda…

Have a good day, I’m out.

So we can leave now?

How the Hell does a quarter of this country still buy this crap if it’s attributable to brain damage or disease?

And in addition, it is the job of those blocs (shia, sunni, kurds, etc) to figure this out on their own. We have delivered democracy to Iraq at the point of a gun. It is vital the minority factions settle this issue for themselves. Iraq cannot be free if only a portion of the citizens participate in the democratic process.

nanlichi Says:
Would someone please press the reset switch on McWirestouching? Lift the flap of skin and it’s the little red button behind his right ear.

NO NO NO!!!! It’s the button behind his LEFT ear.

The button behind his right ear engages the repeating “My friends” circuit. We don’t want that.

Do they have oil?

We can only hope that the various warring factions have finally realized that their is enough wealth for all to participate.

Not if you include KBH, the GOP, blackwater, etc… After they get done at the trough, there ain’t gonna be nuthin’ left.

Or at least, not one whose sovereignty deserves respect.

Well, sovereignty is a complicated and somewhat seperate issue. Note, though, that if their duly elected government votes for us to get the hell out, we should go.

Sovereignty. Should I respect the sovereignty of Burma, which murders its own people with utter glee? I find that hard to do. If I lived in Burma, would I be glad the international community respected the “sovereignty” of the Junta and didn’t bring me life saving food, medicine and water after the cyclone? Ditto refugees in Darfur. It is tricky.

No, I am not advocating overthrowing all repressive regimes in the world. But “sovereignty” is not something that automatically commands respect, IMHO.

Thanks.