I just started a book: "Imperial Hubris" By "Anonymous"...(actually a former C.I.A.-analyist who is now retired, and appeared on P.B.S. FRONTLINE). It is a VERY "in-depth" analysis of "Why the West Is Losing The War On Terror". It echos what I hgave been saying for years; that "We are hated for what we are, what we think, and what we represent" is "Errant and potential fatal nonsense". "Robotic-repetition of " because they hate freedom", does not do as an explanation". Muslims have NO concept that separates "church" & "state"; therefore, any "attack" on their governments is also deemed an "attack" on their religion. This concept has OBVIOUSLY escaped the limited mind of George W. Bush; since he admittedly "doesn't read books". He would rather prefer to use an "Wild-West" approach to a complex, ideological problem. Bush would rather "carpet-bomb" or use "cruise-missles"; an approach which has attracted FAR more "Jihadists" to their cause.. In a book called: " The National Interest", professor Daniel Byman writes: " A body-count can be mis-leading", "because of the size of the terrorist cadre is unknown, and many of those killed or captured are low-level recruits who can be easily replaced. More importantly, it fails to reflect the impact on the adversary's morale, recruitment, fund-raisning, and residual ability to conduct sophisticated attacks." A U.S. Marine was interviewed near the beginning of the Iraq war... He was asked how the Marines would "bring-Democracy" to Iraq... To which he replied": "I don't know, that's not our job. Our job is to kill people and blow stuff up"..... Bush is now "grand-standing" various "photo-ops" of the "sucessful election" in Iraq., tearful exhibits of ex-Iraqis voting and relatives of dead American troops. .. an election BOYCOTED by at least 25 % of elegible voters, which was not monitored by ANY INTERNATIONAL AGENCY, which experienced ballot-shortages in Kurd-districts, and which does NOT address the fundamental issues which caused the 9-11 attacks. An election which only confirms the Jihadist's belief that America is war a "colonial" assault on their countries, and therefore their religion, as well. Bush, yesterday gave his "State of the Union" address. NO mention of any "exit-strategy" in Iraq: He HAS NO PLANS TO "EXIT"... in fact, we are now building 14 Military bases in Iraq.; a "permanent" presence; much like the 40-year investment in Korea. Al Queda "director" Zawahiri, has stated often on Al Jazeera Television; that Bush's "arrogance" and "religious-fanaticism" make it MUCH easier to conduct jihads against America!! Bush is actually Al-Queda's #1 recruiter!!! He is attempting to "kill flies" with a shotgun!! While standing in his own pile of shit!! The word "HUBRIS" is defined as :" excessive pride or arrogance; the excessive pride and ambition that usually leads to downfall". Similarly, the definition of "MEGALOMANIAC" is: " one possessed of infantile feelings of omnipotence and granduer, with a craving for more of it". Sounds a lot like some "un-elected" president; one who acts as a "puppet-king" and "shill" for corporate-interests.!!!!! A president, who now wants to divert our Social-Security into high-risk Wall-Street investments; REMEMBER ENRON, WORLDCOM, ARTHUR ANDERSON?????? With an anticipated "administration-cost" of 30 PERCENT, such "investments" are little-more than Gambling. The definition of "gambling":..... "A tax on people who are bad at math." I, personally have lost more than $25,000 in "secure" Mutual Funds, under the Bush administration... This past month, I was faced with "re-financing" my home with a risky "adjustable-rate" mortgage; to avoid bankruptcy!!! Bush's accounting has LOST more than $8 BILLION in Iraq, and has ammassed the larges FEDERAL DEFECIT IN HISTORY!!! His fiscal-responsibility is CRIMINAL!! He has NEVER met any of his "fiscal-projectoins", yet now he wants us to support an vague, undefined plan to "privatize" (read: give-away") part of our Social-Security fund!!! Without suppling ANY details, or numbers!!! STOP THE MADNESS!!! www.votetoimpeach.org Dave
- posted by Dave @ 11:34 AM