Reply #72: Agreed, except... [View All]

[dpibel]

This is rather the crux of the matter, and Americans blithely deny how much havoc has been wreaked upon the world to ensure our way of life which is, according to DaddyBoosh "not negotiable."

I do think Mr. Kunstler is 'way off when he says this:

"But I have trouble imagining what Harry Shearer thinks the Middle East would be like now if the US had not overthrown Saddam Hussein and was not struggling to maintain this police station there in the hot center of things."

I imagine Harry Shearer thinks the Middle East now would be much like the Middle East was before the Fierce Warrior Chieftain got his war on: no model, but a hell of a lot better than it is now. We are aware, are we not, that even after a decade of the most brutal sanctions in the history of the world Iraq's infrastructure was in better shape before Little George's Big War than it is now? And this "police station there in the hot center of things" is policing just what?