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Chris...
...don't get me started!
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DamonLeigh
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May 11, 2006
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FranklyMyDear...
...thanks for that - an interesting perspective.
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posted by
DamonLeigh
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May 11, 2006
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Dylan and Xeno...
...thanks for your contributions - much appreciated.
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posted by
DamonLeigh
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May 11, 2006
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katray...
..thanks for popping in - it's been a while!
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DamonLeigh
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May 11, 2006
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Burly...
...it's true that history does have lessons for us.
However, your version of revisionist history does not.
And I really don't think that your on-going efforts to revive Hitler and the Germans from sixty years ago really serve the discussions we're having today.
Thanks for reading.
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posted by
DamonLeigh
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May 11, 2006
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Blowback
as Chalmers Johnson so aptly termed it. Excellent, revealing book btw, written before 9-11.
Good, truth telling post Damon, thanks.
posted by
katray4
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May 10, 2006
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Xeno-x
That's Shah, pardon!
posted by
Burly
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May 9, 2006
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DamonLeigh
When it comes to making war, I invite you to read my lastest post!
posted by
Burly
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May 9, 2006
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oh yeah Saddam
we gave him much war equipment to fight the Iranians who became our enemy because we supported a repressive Shaw and trained his goon squads
wonder how many of our youth were killed and maimed by equipment MADE IN THE U.S.A. -- maybe even by Halliburton?
posted by
Xeno-x
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May 8, 2006
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we have a gray area there
the wars of the 20th century need not have happened.
started with Wilson who refused to disallow exports to both sides in WWI in order to avert a recession during an election year.
our boys were killed with material MADE IN THE U.S.A.
WWII -- Japan built up its navy with scrap metal from the U.S. -- helped someone's economy there -- and still U.S. companies sold to both sides -- American youth wre killed with material MADE IN THE U.S.A.
then came USSR and the Cold War -- China and Mao Tse Tung -- and all our fears of communism taking over the world and the Iorn Curtain and the "Domino Effect" in SE Asia -- and supporting oppressive regimes that would side with us against them- like the Shah and certain S American -- and Israel as a balance -- and neglecting Africa and much of the Middle East that didn't mean anything to us strategically -- and particularly S America and Africa --
remember the assassinations too -- they are part of the mix.
in the crazy world of world diplomacy, people are our allies at one time, our enemies at another -- USSR, Iran, Nicaraugua, Panama, Saddam Hussein. When they're our allies, they can do nothing wrong, although they commit the moist heinous atrocities -- but if they god forbid trip up -- then --
we have the means to bombem so we do -- when the going gets rough the rough get going -- that's the bottom line.
after all this mess, you don't try to get to the root of the problem, you just blow the opposition away.
posted by
Xeno-x
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May 8, 2006
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the US in WWII....
....were a bunch of johnny come lately's and capitalized on supplying the commonwealth war effort while naively allowing japan to build up military strength and then foolishly allowed themselves to be clobbered good and hard in Hawaii....thereby ending the cash cow that was the war in Europe...if it were not for the Russians moving west, the US, Brits and Canada, Austrailia, etc would have had a much longer go of it...the US's main contribution to the war effort was production capability...followed by people in that it was the largest population outside of Europe....the disection of Germany in 1945 confirmed the US as the world's policeman, but since that time, particulary in the last 30 years, ill guided US foreign policy has steadily eroded what was once a fairly reasonable place in the hearts of people in the rest of the world....the biggest mistake ever made was removing Saddam Hussein...Hussein, monster that he was, was the Sunni line that held in place the Shiite's, that stretch from Asia to the tip of Africa....as soon as he was gone, Iraq is now what it is, a religious killing ground that will likely not get any better until Iraq is chopped into three distinct ethnic regions...Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites....sorry to digress, but it's the biggest military blunders of all time (all the euro/middle east military commands knew this would happen) And now, as America teeters on bankruptcy because of this silly war and ill advised and stubborn leaders, the century of American dominance will fade. The dollar's about to crumble, the world currency since 1945...
posted by
FranklyMydear1
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May 8, 2006
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Damon
It makes me sick that America has bombed all of those countries. How come Wales got away with it? Thought it would be just a matter of common courtesy, the uncivilised swines that they are...
posted by
chris2303
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May 8, 2006
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I think it would be fair to say the U.S. helped the U.K....
in World War II, but it took us longer to get in. And Russia actually did the most. (Too bad their own leadership was nearly as odious at Hitler's.)
The American citizen has been complicit in war-mongering since the time of westward expansion. We would like to place all the blame on our leaders, our governments. Yet even when we have known the truth, we have let our government do bad things.
To confess such a sin (or express regret, and intent to correct for, the sins of one's ancestors) is not self-hatred. In Catholicism, we call it "penance." (I suppose other religions call it the same thing or something similar.)
We need to do some penance, and we could easily start by combining diplomatic and economic actions abroad (such as in Sudan) and reducing our weapons arsenal at home. Well, it would be easy if we could garner the political will to do it. 
posted by
Dylan24
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May 8, 2006
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DamonLeigh
Yes, we simply love to bomb people. So much so that we saved your bloody British asses or you'd be writing your blog in German!
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Burly
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May 8, 2006
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