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Baberg you present good facts, but your cynicism does nothing for your credibilty.
What an odd statement. I could understand my cynicism hurting my credibility if I presented no facts and simply ranted without backup. However, when I give facts to support my ideas I don't see how the delivery should affect those facts. Maybe it's just my style - sarcastic, cynical, and bitter.
Try reading it as if Jon Stewart of The Daily Show were reading it - add a touch of humor, some sly remarks. That's the style I'm looking for. But regardless, I find it strange that my presentation should have any bearing on the facts therein. But that's just me.
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France, Germany, Russia have fail because because of thier own self centered interest had prevented them from estabishing a united front.
That's right, those three nations did have their own self-centered interests. So did the US. It just so happens that the US's interests involved invading a soverign nation while France, Germany, and Russia did not. As for "upholding UN resolutions" I ask you this - why did the US and UK essentially fight this war alone? Gulf War I (with Bush Senior) was fought with the united backing of the UN. France sent warplanes, Germany assisted... Everybody was fighting against the Iraqi aggressor. But in Gulf War II, there were only a smattering of nations involved.
I had a revelation last night. I was thinking of the book
1984 by George Orwell which, incidentally, you all must read. It's a short book but packed full of relevant material in the post-9/11 world. Startling, as it was written in 1949.
In one scene in 1984, the people of Oceania (US and UK, essentially) are in the midst of a "hate fest" where people gather together to hurl insults at the leader of Eastasia (China and other eastern nations, essentially). Then, in the middle of the hate fest, the image changes to the leader of Eurasia (Russia et al). The populace, so used to taking what the government and media say for granted, immediately forget that they were at war with Eastasia and now hurl insults at Eurasia. The anger of the populace was redirected immediately onto somebody who was, until that moment, not hurting anybody in Oceania.
Compare this to the US with respect to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. For weeks after 9/11 the populace of the US was made to hate Osama Bin Laden and everything he stood for. Afghanistan was invaded, the Taliban was overthrown, but Osama Bin Laden was replaced by Saddam Hussein. People redirected their hatred of Osama onto Saddam almost immediately, to the point where a majority of Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning of 9/11 (when, in fact, 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and none from Iraq).
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