America needs an enema...

measl at mfn.org measl at mfn.org
Sun Sep 30 19:41:00 PDT 2001



On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Steve Schear wrote:

> Its angering how much lip service though little progress has been made 
> since 1973 on freeing America from her chemical dependence on petroleum in 
> general and mid-east oil specifically.  If the U.S. had no direct economic 
> interests in the mid-east would it be propping up the governments of 
> Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or contending with Iran and Iraq, etc?

While I would *like* to think that your point is _completely_ valid and
all-encompassing, I'm afraid I can't :-(   Unfortunately, we are just as
interested in "liberating" everyone else (read: forcing them do do as we
please, but not necessariily as we do) on the planet.  The U.S. has a
rather intense ego problem.

This is *not* to say that your point doesn't have a great deal of
validity, for obviously it does.
 

-- 
Yours, 
J.A. Terranson
sysadmin at mfn.org

If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they
should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers,
associates, or others.  Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of
those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
first place...
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