The US economy is collapsing, and I'm not saying we need to sell missiles. I'm saying we need to use them to take the oil. Or rubber or tin or magnesium or cheap/slave labour or whatever is out there that we can use for industry. Failing that, we use the bombs to destroy the other country on the priciple that if we can't have it, then no one can. Scorched Earth. Think Vietnam. Competition from China is bad, mmmkay?
It's the only reason. Name one country that ever grew and prospered except at the expense of another. Call it conquest, colonialism, globalism, whatever. Theft and exploitation are ugly but necessary because (and here is my big main point, I hope I haven't farked it up too bad) if we don't do it we get weak and then WE become the targets of conquest. I'd like to live like the Indians but they got stomped by everyone who had a shot at them.
France and Germany are for "peace" right now because it's to their competitive advantage. (France and Germany a moral force in the universe! OMFG! History dies laughing!) Just as we didn't give a damn that Saddam's a monster as long as he's our monster, neither do they. And the poor Iraqi people. Where were there protests for world justice when Saddam was gassing the Kurds or invading Kuwait? They sat back and watched it all happen just like Americans. Now when it happens to them they are victims. Peace and justice mean (and have always meant) "for me and my friends." I don't like it but it's a fact. I don't want to be a victim complaining to some powerless judge in Belgium because the bad men killed my family and destroyed my country. Better to be strong than to get run over and die.
Mostly we don't want to face these facts because we are nice people. Someone has to however or else Mexico would be us and we would be Mexico, if you see my point. I don't want to be Mexico, do you?
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There are other ways of making money y'know.
Maybe if you're Switzerland and you have mountains and banks. Even then you're working for the Nazis and the Mafia. I can't think of another way to make money really. And unfortnately the USA has made lots of money with violence and invested lots and LOTS of money in more violence. It's like if your neighbors spent their money on night school and you spent yours on guns, maybe they're better than you morally but you still have to use what you have to keep up. So you become a robber or a mercenary, or a washed up loser. It's all you have. Look at the ghetto kids who sell drugs and kill each other. Bad people! Are you better than them? No, you would have to do the same thing if you wanted to prosper given the same deck of cards. That is like the USA, the biggest gangster, and the world is the ghetto and it is FULL of smaller gangsters who would eat our lunch if they could.
I don't see why not. We sure can't just roll in there and go "here we are! Give us the oil!" There would be protests and all kinds of resistance. You have to smash a country to pieces before they'll let you go in and set up a puppet government. This has the added "scorched earth" benefit if you happen to lose the war.
So say a lot of people I know but when you show them what it would really mean, I mean REALLY mean to their lives then they are not so sure they want to get rid of the death merchants. Because the death merchants are them, one way or another. None of our hands are clean so "let's not kid each other."
It's like Bob Dylan. "You masters of war" etc. The people's poet. Make us laugh, Bob. He lives in mansions in gated communities where they wouldn't even let you in. He's all tied up with Viacom who owns CBS who have something I think to do with managing public information in a war. (Ie lies.) And his record label is Sony right? Sony who is working with the Pentagon on "Total Information Awareness?" Hey, where does Bob's mansion come from? Those people who buy his records so they can feel like they are some kind of Jesus, how do they make their money so they can buy Bob Dylan records? Bob could make some protest music about Viacom and Sony. But he is like the rest of us. We are no better and no worse. We all love peace, everyone does. So why is the world full of war? It's someone else's fault.
Well the buck stops here! Blame the war on me. But tell me what other kind of world we can live in.
Boorite, I'm not talking about the stock market today. Of course it is jittery with war coming up. Look at after the war.
I know I sound like an asshole (so they tell me) but I think I just say what everyone is thinking but is afraid to say. I really am a nice guy who loves my dog and tips my waitress and buys flowers for my girlfriend. I give change to the homeless and I am PRO welfare. I just don't think we are better than the guy who sticks you up and with a gun in your face tells you it's "nothing personal." Don't you see what he means? It really is nothing personal.
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Let's not kid each other.
