Point 5: no patience
March 27, 2008
I’m tired that so many Americans think you can rebuild a dictatorship into a democracy over night.
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I’m tired that so many Americans think you can rebuild a dictatorship into a democracy over night.
May 14, 2008 at 1:30 pm
You have been duped into believing that it’s ok for a country to go bankrupt trying to bring democracy to the world at the barrel of a gun. It sounds so absurd in every way, the only logical conclusion is that the war can not be about democracy at all. And that is obvious. It is a scam designed to steal all your wealth. Even if you think you are profiting from this war, you most likely are not, once you factor in the currency destruction it has caused. But you wont even have the honesty to admit that people like yourself are the reason for the commodities ‘bubble’. You’ll convince yourself that it was the ’speculators’ that did it. Not the people who support deficit spending! Nope. Always someone else. Some other group. Never any responsibility for yourself.
May 28, 2008 at 1:19 pm
In response to Iconoclast421: Aren’t you doing the same thing then? It’s not you who are waging this war, or supporting it, it’s those other people. It’s not you who are buying homes on speculation with dubious loans, it’s the other people. It’s not you who are driving up the cost of commodities by demanding more (for less, usually) but the other people. Yes, you stand on the sidelines, smug, and secure in the knowledge that you are right and the rest are wrong. No one will convince you otherwise, will they? You don’t support deficit spending but you definitely support social entitlements and oppose cuts (even cuts in the size of increases), don’t you? That leads to deficit spending. We all support deficit spending when we demand the government pay for that which we support. If “war cannot be about democracy” then explain Germany and Japan today. The “currency destruction” has a more complex cause than the war in Iraq. It involves the rise of the EU, the modernization of China and India (which is creating a huge demand on natural resources) among many other things. The world is not as simple as you make it out to be.