Reply #9: sorry, I disagree [View All]

[RainDog]

except to the extent that Ameicans operate as ten year olds when they approach foreign policy...which is probably truer than I want to admit for most Americans.

His speech was devoid of reality, but full of rhetoric about who Americans want to believe we are, in spite of the glaring evidence of our interference in countries around the world via assassinations of democractically elected leaders and corporate interference in economies to the detriment of other citizens of other nations and to the benefit of the richest here.

without information which is pounded into the American consciousness about the lie of Bush's feel-good rhetoric (which would be and is slammed by right wingers as "blame America first" and on and on) people are not going to wake up, I'm afraid, until it's too late and the rest of the world decides to bitch slap the U.S. economically, since it cannot do so militarily.

even then, who knows if Americans will connect the dots.

But it seems we are careening toward a major economic disaster of perpetual war making, and our govt's answer will be further militarism and a draft to "employ" lots of people and we will further alienate the rest of the world.