Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-04 Thread Tyler Durden
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:11:28 -0800 On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 07:05 PM, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 1 Apr 2003 at 11:48, Mike Rosing wrote: Which is why MAD works. But a regular bombing run on a few oil refineries

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-04 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
Tyler Durden wrote: As far as I can tell, we've been actively meddling in foreign governments since the early 1950s. I haven't been; have you? If not, then you shouldn't use the term we. One of the mind games that state worshippers play on the populace is to get them to identify with the

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-04 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:56 AM 4/4/03 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: If it was economic imperialism, they would have done Saudi arabia. Lots of stuff connnecting Saudi Arabia to the twin towers. All your Saudis are belong to us. And we much prefer Saudi puppets to IslamoFundies. Problem is, of course, that it

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-04 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 2 Apr 2003 at 20:11, Tim May wrote: It is economic imperialism, pure and simple. Obviously, after they failed to find Bin Laden or his corpse, they needed to rip a new asshole in some unfortunate arab regime. If it was economic imperialism, they would have done Saudi arabia. Lots of

Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-03 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 07:05 PM, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 1 Apr 2003 at 11:48, Mike Rosing wrote: Which is why MAD works. But a regular bombing run on a few oil refineries would put the US in a world of hurt really quickly, enough for them to pull a lot of their troops out of

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-03 Thread James A. Donald
-- If Russia, Chaina and the EU really wanted to, they could use conventional weapons and force the US to at least retreat from trying to rule the world. James A. Donald: This supposes the US is trying to rule the world, which is not apparent -- at least not to the US. Tim

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-03 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: Tyler Durden wrote: As far as I can tell, we've been actively meddling in foreign governments since the early 1950s. I haven't been; have you? If not, then you shouldn't use the term we. One of the mind games that state

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-03 Thread Bill Frantz
At 11:54 AM -0800 4/3/03, Tim May wrote: If my neighbor wishes to contribute to the Ruwandans or the Iraqi Liberation Front, he is welcome to. Operation Iraqi Liberation has a better acronym. Cheers - Bill - Bill Frantz

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-03 Thread Tyler Durden
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:54:55 -0800 On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 11:37 AM, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: Tyler Durden wrote: As far as I can tell, we've been actively meddling in foreign governments since the early 1950s. I