Re: How Fear Mongering Has Benefited You
Certainly a big part of the reason for this war is about oil as bhkad's chart shows.
But what would we do without oil? The lights would go out.
The other thing is there are people who have the means and are committed to demonizing, terrorizing and ultimately destroying the U.S. And that is a fact we shouldn't ignore.
Yes we should be fighting in Afghanistan. Yes we should be in some other countries. But we don't have the men at arms to fight in but one ground theater.
WE need the draft. This a real war. It would behoove us to remain engaged.
But some people see that yes Bush and his crones are making money. Money talks. But I don't say what they do is for the benefit of the country in the respect of their business dealings. But I would rather see an American control that oil than a Ben Laden, Hussein, etc.
Now. You know something? This reminds me of pre World War II.
**America did not want to get into that war. It did not concern us. We had been in the "Great War" and didn't want to see any more of it's calamity and hardship and heart rending scenery. But guess what? We ignored it until the precious "Pearl" was bombed. Then we went in and did what we had to do.
**Matter of fact we were dragged kicking and screaming into World War One!
Make no mistake about it. Although some may seem obsessed by this type of dialouge, it is important dialogue.
Because there is a world war going on. We just have to decide to really do something about it.
I fault our politicians. As I've said before, Bush should fire every speech writer until he gets across to the people how detrimental to our future the terrorists are. Failing that, he should get someone else to do the speaking. I can only hope the next president will be a good communicator. Cause the minute he or she takes office you can bet yer sweet bippy, he/she will be apprised of the seriousness of the situation. Then all campaign promises will be out the window as the next president comes to the realization there must be a draft or else we are going to have to bomb civilians to smithereens.
Meanwhile just read the world news. When you're curious about a country, get out the old Encarta or at least look up the history of the region in Wiki. Next read the recent (20-50 yr) history of it.
It is as our old English teachers admonished : Huck Fynn is a great piece of philosophical literature, but balance that out with some history and some meaty works of fiction.
For some meaty works about the modern middle east, you can search Amazon for any of the terrorist organization' names/or Iran/or Iraq/or Afghanistan.
** READ Les Miserables to see why there had to be a French Revolution!
**And please reread Diary of Anne Frank.
Then you will see there are those times a people have to fight and fight to win.
This is is one of those times.
Last edited by saltwn; 02-19-2008 at 04:05 AM.
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