Apr 16, 2006 14:47
TERRORIST! i said it, what can you do? send me to jail for saying the word that has been transposed into the minds of todays populace as the face of evil. When Senator Joe McCarthy started a witchhunt he used the word communist and he targeted anyone and everyone; when this incarnate of a government takes someone and humiliates or sends them to secret "indirect" prisons outside of the US where "indirect" torture can be used LEGALLY, all for the sake of freedom- i tend to have a problem. Dont get me wrong im as patriotic as the next Iranian nationalist but the thing about it is we are the most hated country in the world. Even Canada aint too cool with the US. We have grown too powerful, we have allowed corporations to grow to a level unpreciedented, to the point where a country's relations with the world are based on if they give their natural resources and cheap labor force to a multinational (United states based) corporation to exploit and turn a profit upon. Capatalistic "democratic" republics have failed, are failing in the very least and everytime a third world country is overturned for its oil or stretegic military position, a new president/shah/warlord/prime minster of pain arises to help quell the rise of communism, terrorism (enviromental, economic, fundamental) and this great strategy on the part of the world police to put a mole in power tends to bring about a leader who, while loving the US, 75% of the time turns into a far-right facsist dicator much worse than the guy he replaced.
When an empire is formed a point comes when it must inevitably crumble, in these days of late capatalism can the united states bow down out of the spotlight gracefully. Can a country as greedy and rich as ours just disarm our nukes and retire from the world police force without any fuss?... No.