Lizard King, some of us are just not ok supporting the murder of innocent people so a small bunch of the mega-rich can become even richer. It’s not the kind of ‘truth’ of what this is all about that is easy to get behind. Heck i feel a whole load of sympathy to guys like you(or maybe you are not frontline?) that risk their lives so someone else can ensure their family does not have to work again, and gets all the trappings of a millionaires life style.
Post neo-con era(and that started back with Strauss teaching in the usa), the lie is all it is about. I really hate people risking their lives for that, and i really hate the situation that has arisen out of it, where over a million civillians(and counting) have died because of these lies that exist simply to make a small clique of the mega rich even richer. You can say all you like about ‘welcome to the real world’, ‘your delusional fantasies’ etc, but all i’ll say to you is so which is it?
Because either the real world IS all about you guys(soldiers) dying so ‘Cheney III’(etc) gets his yacht OR i’m completely delusional? It can’t really be both.
Btw i still find it amusing how you use the conflicting sides of disparagement to try to carry on with your character assassination. I’m either an intellectual elite thinking i’m so superior(with all the connotations of being easy to hate by regular joe) OR i’m a simple dumbass? Please pick one and stick with it, as the flip-flopping around this does you no favours.
I’m not a peace-nik either, and i’ve already said i’m happy Bin Laden is dead. I just wish people(is that better than ‘amercians’?) on your side of the pond would show a bit more critical distance around all this, as by simply following the lie laid out for you all is not going to end well for you guys, in the sense of you liking freedom and democracy etc.
That is a very good question actually. So far it seems that if you are part of the apparatus that is being used to have the war on terror, you can make a small fortune(Haliburton, Big Oil, BAE, PMC’s etc). So from that point of view it is a good thing.
If you are not part of that clique, which most of us are not, then it is a net loss so far, with some very murky and unpleasent stuff around the corner. As a guy fighting the actual war you are set to lose(morality, mental health, physical health etc). As a civilian in any set war zone for the war on terror you are really screwed(1 million deaths and counting). As a civilian in america or other western european countries you are also a loser, thousands of us have died already and more will in the future no doubt. As a lover of freedom and democracy you are a loser so far; Patriot Act, retinal scans, dna databases, detention without charge for upto 30 days(or is it now 60?) etc.
And lets not forget the huge budget deficits that will/are biting hard, hitting the economy etc. We are all paying for this war on terror and the only ‘winners’ are the guys i mentioned in that first group above. Everyone else is losing so far, with those loses set to get much more extreme and damaging.