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chuck-the-canuck1 year, 7 months ago

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One of the first things most of us realized upon becoming adults is that certain things won't go away just because we have chosen to try and ignore them.
I would imagine that some sort of dialogue would be preferable to jingoistic ranting and sabre rattling.

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  TemplarScribe1 year, 7 months ago
  
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  "...some sort of dialogue would be preferable to jingoistic ranting and sabre rattling."
  Not for the past seven-plus years. Or so Bush-Cheny and their cronies would believe.
  Anyone recall the first four months of the glorious Bush adminstration, when we had that little airplance incident with China? Our spy plane was rammed by a Chinese fighter, and the plane and its valuable technology were kept hostage (along with the crew)? Rather than try and talk our way back from the brink, the Idiot In Chief threatened China with war over the situation.
  It took cooler heads (ie: Colin Powell) to convince the knuckleheads that you can't push the Chinese with threats.
  Luckily, we had that other little incident, the "new Pearl Harbor," a Neocon's dream come true. Plenty of smaller kids on the playground to push around and bully. No need to resort to consensus-building or gaining allies' trust. Except for that propaganda about the "Coalition of the Willing."
  
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    TemplarScribe1 year, 7 months ago
    
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    That's the kind of diplomacy Neocons prefer: instead of "Speak softly and carry a big stick," it's more like "Wave your stick around, beat everything senseless within arm's length, and threaten everyone else within earshot."
    Anyone who suggests we do otherwise is routinely called an appeaser, which is ironic, since the ones holding this stick act far more sympathetic to the Nazi way of things (rely exclusively on the military, repeat the Big Lie loud and long, eliminate your political opponents rather than try and work with them).
    And it's our own fault, every one who didn't complain about unequaled Republican spending, and who didn't speak out vocally against an unnecessary Gulf War II.
    When we elect politicians who lie from day one ("no nation building," "compassionate conservative," "reach across the aisle") and are not challenged by those with the power to oppose them, then we allow ourselves to slide this close to tyranny.
    
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