Mr Donald wrote...
A claim that presupposes that the west is just as totalitarian as its enemies, that well known reality is not to be trusted, that newsmen and historians are servants of the vast capitalist conspiracy, so in place of obvious truths, we can substitute any ridiculous fantasy that we find politically conforting, for example Tyler Durden's fantasy that the US attacked Korea, and attacked to impose poverty on Koreans so that the US can be rich
Once again you make the mistake that, because YOU are drinking from a spigot of hype, that because I disagree with you I must be drinking from some other spigot.
There are plenty of counter-examples to the "benefits" of US interventionism, particularly throughout central America. But I don't really want to debate that point, but instead focus on Iraq.
In Iraq this philosophy of "saving the locals from tyrrany" has taken a new turn. In this case, I actually believe that George W, Dick Cheney and the whole cabal believe that:
1. The best thing for the Iraqis would be a western-style free-market economy. (Check?)
2. An Iraqi free market would slowly stabilise the whole middle east region. (Check?)
3. Iraq has resources (ie, oil) that could be utilized to kick-start a true industrialized economy (Check?)
4. The US has the ability to extract that oil and then turn those dollars into local goods-and-services, thus kickstarting forementioned Iraqi industrialization (Check?)
5. Meanwhile, Saddam was really, really bad and a terrorist and he's got all sorts of scary WMDs.
6. It is therefore in everybody's best interests for the US to kick out Saddam and get this party started.
7. Oh, and the US will benefit too (as we should) as we help ole' man Iraq get back on his feet.
But apparently, the locals are not particularly happy about the unilateral decisions we've been making in their benefit. Of course, you might chalk this up to fanaticism/Islam or whatever, but I suspect they just don't trust us (Abu Ghraib), and remember the fact that it was the US that propped up Saddam as long as he stuck to the script.
Who knows? If Bush & Co are able to steal this election, maybe in a year or two (after the death toll hits the 5 digit mark) we'll start hearing about how Saddam wasn't so bad after all, and why don't we give him a second chance? (We'll watch him closely, so don't you worry!)
-TD
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