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Originally Posted by Godless Dave
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Originally Posted by seebs
One thing I would love to have is more detailed information on neo-cons. My mom is a near-libertarian atheist, but she generally likes neo-cons, because their rhetoric (when they're pitching it to general audiences, not Rapture Ready folks) sounds fairly similar to her positions. I think that, if the various claims about these people and their end times beliefs could be substantiated clearly, it would erode their support substantially among people like her.
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Pesonally I feel that even at face value the ideas of the neo-cons are imperialistic, warlike, and un-American. And from a purely practical point of view, installing friendly dictatorships overseas in order to increase our security and access to natural resources is what we did during the Cold War and it didn't exactly turn out so well: the mujihadeen turned on us, the Shah of Iran was overthrown, Saddam Hussein turned on us, Central and South Americans fled their US-supported dictators to become illegal immigrants in the US, our support for the Saudis bred resentment that was exploited by the mujihadeen who we had trained in terrorist tactics. Aside from any moral objections to a free nation pursuing a military-driven imperialist foreign policy, chickens always eventually come home to roost. |
GD, I don't know how you continue to do it. It's like you have the ability to express my opinions. Uncanny.
I have only one quibble with this statement: the term "un-American." What you have described seems to have been the American imperialist mode since they focused their attentions on the indigenous peoples populating North America. I'd say what you describe is "very American."
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