The plan was not to post anything too serious today, but here are some rhetorical questions addressed to future Memorial Days:
Did the cold war end because of Reagan's budget-busting military buildup or because the Soviet Union rotted from within?
With America's superpower rival gone, are "rogue states" and Islamic terrorists enough justification to maintain 700-plus military bases all over the world, and thousands of nukes?
Is the Dick Cheney goal of "imposing a fearful peace"1 on the world the right course for Americans?
Is "Islamic terrorism" about taking over America or getting America to leave Islamic countries? 1. Cheney didn't actually phrase it this way--it's what John Perry Barlow thinks his fellow libertarian Wyoming mountain man is trying to accomplish in Washington. Cheney a libertarian--what a joke: he's a creature of corporate and government bureaucracy.
Cornell West excerpt here (it takes a loooong time to load but its good). quote:
[[he advocates]]...a level of spritural maturity and moral maturity that does not give up on the socratic intent to interrogate the mendacity and hypocrisy of American live. It is rooted in something deep. It is rooted in an attempt to keep track of the humanity of the very people who have dehumanised you.
1) Soviet Union rotted from within, also US acts of sabotage of Soviet attempts at industrial espionage.
2) They're going to work really hard to find justification.
3) Only in the mind of a paranoid control freak.
4) Getting America to leave. If they wanted to bring America to its knees, they would blow up Saudi infrastructure rather than killing oil workers. Bin Laden would like a caliphate with control of the two of the three holiest sites, plus a lot of revenue. He needs to scare off the Americans, then deal with the royal family.
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The plan was not to post anything too serious today, but here are some rhetorical questions addressed to future Memorial Days:
Did the cold war end because of Reagan's budget-busting military buildup or because the Soviet Union rotted from within?
With America's superpower rival gone, are "rogue states" and Islamic terrorists enough justification to maintain 700-plus military bases all over the world, and thousands of nukes?
Is the Dick Cheney goal of "imposing a fearful peace"1 on the world the right course for Americans?
Is "Islamic terrorism" about taking over America or getting America to leave Islamic countries?
1. Cheney didn't actually phrase it this way--it's what John Perry Barlow thinks his fellow libertarian Wyoming mountain man is trying to accomplish in Washington. Cheney a libertarian--what a joke: he's a creature of corporate and government bureaucracy.
- tom moody 5-31-2004 7:51 pm
Cornell West excerpt here (it takes a loooong time to load but its good). quote:
- sally mckay 5-31-2004 8:29 pm
1) Soviet Union rotted from within, also US acts of sabotage of Soviet attempts at industrial espionage.
2) They're going to work really hard to find justification.
3) Only in the mind of a paranoid control freak.
4) Getting America to leave. If they wanted to bring America to its knees, they would blow up Saudi infrastructure rather than killing oil workers. Bin Laden would like a caliphate with control of the two of the three holiest sites, plus a lot of revenue. He needs to scare off the Americans, then deal with the royal family.
- mark 6-01-2004 4:36 am