On Aug 2, 2007, at 12:58 AM, Dave Land wrote: > I had a conversation with a smart Silicon Valley type yesterday who > said that the US has chosen to project the wrong "brand" to the Middle > East. That's not so very different from what you say here -- give 'em > hospitals and the Internet and project a brand of "helper" instead of > "invader" and you're likely to win more hearts and minds, and at the > cost that I would wager is quite a bit smaller than the brand we're > projecting now at the point of our many guns and missiles.
Yeah, that was what I had in mind. Lo those many years ago we weren't a military threat to China -- feh, we still aren't now; they outnumber us four to one -- the idea was to give them what they wanted. Well, what does a lot of the ME want? Not our "freedom", as the Retard in Chief has claimed; rather, they want to have a little, oh I don't know, comfort maybe, The comfort derived from money, possibly; or the comfort of having a voice in world affairs. Barring that, I suspect they'd like to be able to kiss their children good night and not have to wonder if they'll wake in the morning to find their kids' bedrooms have been turned into a US-made crater. > And it wouldn't have cost us the growing shame of the Pat Tillman > story, which is starting to smell more and more like they shot their > own hero because he wouldn't read from their script. Pat Tillman was killed by George W. Bush. The progression is obvious; no Iraq, no invasion; no invasion, no PT volunteering; no PT volunteering, no sortie in hostile territory; no sortie, no PT getting shot. Every man and woman dead in Iraq today is dead because of George W. Bush. Iraq was an *elective* war. It was a war Bush CHOSE TO EXECUTE. The responsibility for every dead man, woman and child rests on his retarded head. George W. Bush has killed more than 3700 American boys and girls, and probably ten times that number of Iraqis. He is a coward, he is a traitor to his nation, he is a murderer, and he is guilty of treason. He is, without question, the worst president in the history of the US, and he is a shame on all of us. >> Here's my dream ticket. Gore and Kucinich. >> >> Think about that for a while. > > I will. Just finished watching Inconvenient Truth and nearly wept > for what might have been done in this country with a leader who is > not a whacko cowboy oilman puppet, but somebody who has apparently > dreamt of a better world, not just more power, for most of his life. You know, Gore is far from perfect. Why I like him is he's willing to say so. It's a refreshing change, isn't it? > Thanks for that hopeful thought, but I don't think the Vice President > (Gore, that is, not the Dark Lord of the current infestation) wants > to remain in a position to say "I used to be the next President of > the United States." He may not have a choice. If he is not on the ballot in November, I think I might just write him in. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
