US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)
Tyler Durden
camera_lumina at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 27 06:55:08 PDT 2004
Mr Donald wrote...
>A claim that presupposes that the west is just as totalitarian
>as its enemies, that well known reality is not to be trusted,
>that newsmen and historians are servants of the vast capitalist
>conspiracy, so in place of obvious truths, we can substitute
>any ridiculous fantasy that we find politically conforting, for
>example Tyler Durden's fantasy that the US attacked Korea, and
>attacked to impose poverty on Koreans so that the US can be
>rich
Once again you make the mistake that, because YOU are drinking from a spigot
of hype, that because I disagree with you I must be drinking from some other
spigot.
There are plenty of counter-examples to the "benefits" of US
interventionism, particularly throughout central America. But I don't really
want to debate that point, but instead focus on Iraq.
In Iraq this philosophy of "saving the locals from tyrrany" has taken a new
turn. In this case, I actually believe that George W, Dick Cheney and the
whole cabal believe that:
1. The best thing for the Iraqis would be a western-style free-market
economy. (Check?)
2. An Iraqi free market would slowly stabilise the whole middle east region.
(Check?)
3. Iraq has resources (ie, oil) that could be utilized to kick-start a true
industrialized economy (Check?)
4. The US has the ability to extract that oil and then turn those dollars
into local goods-and-services, thus kickstarting forementioned Iraqi
industrialization (Check?)
5. Meanwhile, Saddam was really, really bad and a terrorist and he's got all
sorts of scary WMDs.
6. It is therefore in everybody's best interests for the US to kick out
Saddam and get this party started.
7. Oh, and the US will benefit too (as we should) as we help ole' man Iraq
get back on his feet.
But apparently, the locals are not particularly happy about the unilateral
decisions we've been making in their benefit. Of course, you might chalk
this up to fanaticism/Islam or whatever, but I suspect they just don't trust
us (Abu Ghraib), and remember the fact that it was the US that propped up
Saddam as long as he stuck to the script.
Who knows? If Bush & Co are able to steal this election, maybe in a year or
two (after the death toll hits the 5 digit mark) we'll start hearing about
how Saddam wasn't so bad after all, and why don't we give him a second
chance? (We'll watch him closely, so don't you worry!)
-TD
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