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Originally posted by Looger@Oct 6 2004, 05:17 PM
bottom line, as soon as america sabotaged UNSCOM, that's it, man.
you are voted off the island of insanity that is the right to any future intervention in iraq, as voted by world opinion.
that line was crossed with dire consequences for all the world. the stakes are much higher than where iraq's oil money goes.
this one's for all the marbles, boys and girls, this issue right here.
the belief of conditionless moral superiority.
i'd even go so far as to say american foreign policy seems bent on making enemies wherever possible.
there's a lot of anti-americanism in the new wave of european far-right extremism, and though many think the climax of that pan-europe movement was surpassed when jorg haider was chucked out of office and jean-marie le pen (sp?) did not win in france, it is alive and well in no small part to american international belligerence.
will we see white christians blowing themselves up in macdonald's?
sounds a little extreme but many things that can be done to turn the world against america have been done. the seeds are sewn.
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Wouldn't you have to say the same thing about the German's French and Russians who sabatoged a program meant to pressure the Iraqi government into coming clean. In this whole scenario even the global community dosen't have a moral high ground.
Even the UN allowed itself to have its own sanctioning program corrupted.
Are the American's at fault. Absolutely, they came across as dishonest when they set the justification for the invasion, they came across as bumblers for thier handling of the after war action.
Nobody can hold thier head high over this