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simplicity sells.
it results in alot of needless death too, but hey, they're just brown people far away so really, what difference do they make?
what matters really is consistency. poli sci 101 understandings of geopolitics are the order of the day. everyone is a little kissinger. (powerclown's arguments above are point for point kissingers about the election of allende in chile--those arguments yielded yet another brilliant triumph for american foreign policy....and if the rest of the world took that same line about the united states, i would suspect there would already have been a coup d'etat here)
it's funny, the right cheerleads for continuation of the conditions that create "terrorists" then exploits "terror" to market its politics and then claims they are boxed in by "terror"...the americans have enormous power, but they are hedged in on all sides by an invisible enemy.
interesting bind marketing sometimes creates.
inept and ill-conceived polices come to be written in stone.
nitwits become heros.
elections are apparently won.
everyone is happy.
it's easy. it's safe.
except for those extra dead people.
but hey, they are just brown people far away--worse still probably muslim--so who really cares?
if the administration had any foresight, any courage, they would undertake changing american policy toward the middle east precisely because it would contribute to diminishing the problems they face from militant groups. the way i see it, this administration has none of the above, and worse needs these groups to legitmate itself.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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