Posted on 10/25/2001 5:56:44 PM PDT by concerned about politics
They, mostly begrudgingly, accept the need for it but that all can change at any time. When the world no longer trusts us to do what is right and good both for ourselves and the world in general superpower status will be revoked. All they have to do is stop listening and acting when we request it. It is that easy.
Think about it, if no one gave us bases to operate from in the current war we are fighting, where would we stage it from? The answer is there would be no war. As much as I hate to say it, Clinton will live a long and prosperous life and not one day of it will ever be spent in prison. For the good of the Nation, at the expense of justice, he walks a free man.
Think about it, if no one gave us bases to operate from in the current war we are fighting, where would we stage it from? The answer is there would be no war.
The countries that allow us bases do it for their own self-interest. Saudi Arabia allowed them ten years ago because they knew if we didn't defeat the Iraqi army and run them out of Kuwait they would be next.
As far as there being no war, I guess you are right. If one side does not fight there is no war, only conquest. Do you seriously think that if we did not go after the terrorists they would stop their attempt to rule the world through terorists activities? Do you not agree that in order to go after them we have to go where they are?
As far as the world letting us be a super power, a gift they could withdraw at anytime, I find that idea to be absurd. Did they let the USSR be a super power? Why did they decide to longer let them be a super power? That is all nonsense! We are a super power due to our superior economic and political systems. We became the world leader despite many here and abroad trying to prevent it. The USSR failed, as have all other Communists countries, because they have inferior systems. If I have over looked something please let me know.
How do you separate the two? How did we obtain our status but through our system? Free enterprise is superior to all other ecomonic systems.
Not because of our political systems either. Both have been rejected by just about every nation.
What planet are you on? Communism and socialism are fading around the world and democracy is showing its superiority in every way. Do you see people leaving the USA to migrate to other countries or do you see our country being over run by people leaving other places to come here?
Our economic power is fading too. Fast. Others are coming up, equally as fast.
We are still, by far the strongest economy in the world despite the recent developments. How about some evidence and facts to support your position?
economic status: due to accumulated wealth at the end of the WW2 (loans to economically devastated nations, the selling of basic products they could not manufacture, control of trade, creation of IMF/World Bank/WTO, breaking off the gold standard, etc. Those are not based on economic system, just economic opportunities that were exploited and why not. In the Clinton years, artificial pumping up of stock market, reliance on off-shores and money laundering that escaped regulation. A casino economy may accumulate cash but it is not an economic system in the classical sense. This model has been rejected worldwide.
political system: most nations prefer a parliamentary form of government with a few viable parties. We are the only ones left on earth to believe we are operating under a two-party sustem. As unpleasant as it is to say, we, the american public, are politically powerless under our one-party system, installed by Woodrow Wilson. Withstanding our grossly drafted propaganda, the world knows. The latest presidential "elections" could not have sent a clearer message and it was clearly understood.
power fading: the Euro comes together in a few months. It covers a larger population than ours, people far better educated than we are, with a higher standard of living, much higher productivity and far higher economic power (in salaries, meaning their redistribution of wealth is more effective and still leaves room for enormous fortunes.) Foreign funds that have been investing in the US for lack of anything else are now poised to shift to the Euro, from the world over. A lot of top investors lost a lot of money when the clinton "economic" BS came to an end. America financially reliable???Well...Then came sep 11.
GW has a great task ahead and I've supported him from day one. Now he and Ashcroft are trying to correct financial mistakes made in the last eight years. The fact that clinton was not removed has not been interpreted as a sign of health, neither nationally nor internationally. Of course, he and his crooks have damaged us in other areas as well. I for one will never understand what possessed the Establishment to put such an weak piece of sh*t in the White House unless of course it was the best we could do. If so, the rot is everywhere. If it is, Dubya better declare victory asap and bring the boys home. We have work to do.
One question that always comes to my mind when confronted by people with your outlook - If there is such an invisible hand controlling everything, as you suggest, why are they secretive? If they control everything there is no need to be silent. If they exist, why is there such conflict around the world? I suppose you subscribe to the idea that wars are planned and manipulated just to enrich these unknown secret folks. Tell that to Usama bin Laden.
I buy none of your premises about anything. The Euro will not replace the US dollar. Europe is so socialistic now that mounting any enterprise at all is difficult, much less free enterprise.
I do agree with you as far as the Clintons are concerned but little else.
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