colin wrote: > > I wonder if he is about to attack NK? or is China a bit too close? > > One of our newspapers yesterday had a whole frontpage warning the world > about a mad man with weapons of mass destruction-accomanpied by a pic of > Bush. I said on the list years ago that a ,lot of us non Americans felt > that WW3 would be started by the USA. It is not just non whites who fear > the USA. And it has othing to do with hatred of the uSA. It has to do > with genuine, fact based, fear. It seems the uDSA is answerable to no > one and expects eveyone else to answer to it. > As for Blair-how shameful.One opion here is that the reason he is > behaving as he is is ebcause he wants to Pres be of the USE. Seems daft > to me as I have nasty feeling there won't a USE to be pres of-or a USA > or anywhere. I hate to be so pessimistic, and I truly hope I am wrong, > but it gets increasingly diffiuclt to believe we are not all fucked. For > years I kidded myself that no one was as mad as this, that no one would > dare start a game. But then i didn't undertadn how far fundametalism had > spread and that the worlds greatest power(after China) would be so > influenced by it.
Not just fundamentalism (though it always helps to have God on your side)--money and control of the world's resources. There are plenty of evil despots around. Some of them are our allies like Turkey. Some of them supply terrorists who blow up skyscrapers in New York (Saudi Arabia). Iraq sits on the second largest oil reserves in the world. But you just never know how history is going to play out. Who could have predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nixon's resignation, withdrawl from Vietnam...there is certainly reason to fear the nuclear sword being waved. Maybe there is still hope that the American public will wake up and oust the scoundrels, though the last election wasn't encouraging. Probably the only thing that will really get their attention is the falling economy and a 200 billion dollar pricetag for the "war" against Iraq. While people suffer in Iraq due to a horrible excuse for a human (Sadam), somehow, killing them with bombs will probably not help their plight. RR
