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Who is this schlemiel Spengler anyway? A fugitive from the Vice Presidents office?
Thanks largely to a longstanding lack of balance in our Middle-East policy and the almost stupifying diversion of our military capability into Iraq at a time that we needed to be wholly focused on tracking down Bin Laden, we're now facing a challenge from Iran that just didn't have to be. But when you lie us into war to satisfy the raging impulse to revenge, cynically thinking all along that it will help assure your re-election, you deserve what you get. Sadly, we're all in it together.
The full impact of the disaster that is Iraq will be felt quite clearly when the Iranian army lines up at the Iraqi border and George Bush, once again, starts playing Benito Mussolini. There'll be no escaping a draft at that point, and perhaps, finally, the American people will set aside their tendency to sleepwalk. This whole thing, the cartoons, the Iran/Syria war talk is getting out of control. It's precisely this kind of momentum that set-off WWI. And now we have Spengler to guide us? Oy!
Iraq was a decent counterbalance to Iran's regional aspirations; now, with that gone and a more Iran-friendly government in place, America is in a worse situation than before.
This is the kind of mess that happens when shoddy philosophers and daydreamers take over a nation's foreign policy. Instead of hard realities, we get sweeping generalizations like 'All men want to be free.' Thus are born foolish ideological crusades...
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Who is this schlemiel Spengler anyway? A fugitive from the Vice Presidents office?
Thanks largely to a longstanding lack of balance in our Middle-East policy and the almost stupifying diversion of our military capability into Iraq at a time that we needed to be wholly focused on tracking down Bin Laden, we're now facing a challenge from Iran that just didn't have to be. But when you lie us into war to satisfy the raging impulse to revenge, cynically thinking all along that it will help assure your re-election, you deserve what you get. Sadly, we're all in it together.
The full impact of the disaster that is Iraq will be felt quite clearly when the Iranian army lines up at the Iraqi border and George Bush, once again, starts playing Benito Mussolini. There'll be no escaping a draft at that point, and perhaps, finally, the American people will set aside their tendency to sleepwalk. This whole thing, the cartoons, the Iran/Syria war talk is getting out of control. It's precisely this kind of momentum that set-off WWI. And now we have Spengler to guide us? Oy!
John Lowell
Iraq was a decent counterbalance to Iran's regional aspirations; now, with that gone and a more Iran-friendly government in place, America is in a worse situation than before.
This is the kind of mess that happens when shoddy philosophers and daydreamers take over a nation's foreign policy. Instead of hard realities, we get sweeping generalizations like 'All men want to be free.' Thus are born foolish ideological crusades...
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