like reagan's simplistic "just say no " anti-drug slogan , bush's "just stay the course" denies the on-the-ground reality of a worsening situation
We are losing the war in Iraq.
There has been a steady increase in the assaults carried out by the insurgents against coalition forces. The attacks over the past year have risen from about twenty a day to approximately 120. We are an isolated and reviled nation. We are tyrants to others weaker than ourselves. We have lost sight of our democratic ideals. Thucydides wrote of Athens' expanding empire and how this empire led it to become a tyrant abroad and then a tyrant at home. The tyranny Athens imposed on others it finally imposed on itself. If we do not confront our hubris and the lies told to justify the killing and mask the destruction carried out in our name in Iraq, if we do not grasp the moral corrosiveness of empire and occupation, if we continue to allow force and violence to be our primary form of communication, we will not so much defeat dictators like Saddam Hussein as become them. Chris Hedges, New York Review of Books--Issue December 16, 2004)
There has been a steady increase in the assaults carried out by the insurgents against coalition forces. The attacks over the past year have risen from about twenty a day to approximately 120. We are an isolated and reviled nation. We are tyrants to others weaker than ourselves. We have lost sight of our democratic ideals. Thucydides wrote of Athens' expanding empire and how this empire led it to become a tyrant abroad and then a tyrant at home. The tyranny Athens imposed on others it finally imposed on itself. If we do not confront our hubris and the lies told to justify the killing and mask the destruction carried out in our name in Iraq, if we do not grasp the moral corrosiveness of empire and occupation, if we continue to allow force and violence to be our primary form of communication, we will not so much defeat dictators like Saddam Hussein as become them. Chris Hedges, New York Review of Books--Issue December 16, 2004)
posted by dsekou at 7:50 AM
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"we"?
"Our"?
Who exactly is this cat talking about?
Most of "we" don't support the war. Most of "we" have been telling everyone who would listen the facts of the situation.
"Our" Democracy? What is July 4th to the Slave? "we" do not have a Democracy." "We" didn't approve of a damn thing. "We" didn't put Saddam in power in the first place. "We" did supply him with WMD's and later try to pin it on him.
"We" aren't the ones who may have mistook Iranian chemicals for Iraqi chemicals that got put on the Kurds.
So this cat can leave me out of the "we" and the "Our" and speak for his own damn self.
lol...man you know when white folks say "we" they don't mean "us" ...just like when "we" say "us"... "we" don't mean "them"
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