tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post2553762800585230446..comments2024-03-22T05:15:17.042+02:00Comments on Sudden Debt: Hellasioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03564511281240682625noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-47248433899142577752007-01-12T08:03:00.000+02:002007-01-12T08:03:00.000+02:00Ahh yes, but we already knew what you Brits think ...Ahh yes, but we already knew what you Brits think of us. Didn't your Daily Mirror headline read, "How can 59,017,382 people be so DUMB?"?<br /><br />We don't get much appreciation for it, even by our own people, but America is "policeman of the world." This is not something that George Bush made up; it was enunciated by President Harry Truman in the Truman Doctrine of 1947, where Truman said that America had to be the country guaranteeing freedom around the world. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/harrystrumantrumandoctrine.html<br /><br />He defended the doctrine by saying that, no matter how expensive it would be, it would be a lot cheaper than WW II was.<br /><br />Every President since then has followed the Truman Doctrine. Truman launched the Korean war. JFK launched TWO pre-emptive wars against Cuba -- the first, based on faulty CIA intelligence, led to the "Bay of Pigs disaster," and the second, the blockade of Cuba, risked nuclear war with Russia. Then Kennedy launched the Vietnam War. Skipping ahead, we have the Bosnian war in the 1990s, and the Afghan war in 2002. Lots of pre-emptive wars.<br /><br />And people also forget that the Iraq war didn't start in 2003. It started in 1991. It escalated sharply in 1999, with Pres. Clinton's daily bombing of no-fly zones, after Saddam expelled the U.N. weapons inspectors. It escalated again in 2003, but if we hadn't done that, then we'd still be bombing no-fly zones, and we still wouldn't know whether or not Saddam had WMDs. You guys in Europe would be in a lot more danger than we would, incidentally.<br /><br />But you're right, we're all pretty stupid over here.<br /><br />John J. Xenakis<br />GenerationalDynamics.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102429195693595750.post-77095397754182770442007-01-11T18:35:00.000+02:002007-01-11T18:35:00.000+02:00True, but that person had already lost. His army w...True, but that person had already lost. His army was completely destroyed and his cities lay in ruins. He could do no more harm but to himself and a couple similarly delusional fanatics.<br /><br />This one, however, is just starting. I hope the good people of America wake up from their stupor and stop him before he sets fire to the world.Hellasioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03564511281240682625noreply@blogger.com