>One needn't know the location of every scale on every alligator in the swamp to know that it's
>foolish go wading in there. Arab media commentators have already been pointing out that the Arab
>nations would rather be oppressed by an Arab tyrant than liberated by an infidel.
They don't have an option anymore, the infidels are about to liberate 'em, come Hell or high water.
I think the Marshall Plan model can work in Iraq, it is a stated policy of this administration that
the objective of this exercise is regime change, to be accomplished by all means necessary, and to
be followed up by the imposition of democracy.
It worked in Japan, where the people most certainly did not want the barbarian aggressors strolling
around Tokyo. Nevertheless they came to accept the new order, and spoke highly in later years of the
relatively painless procedure. It didn't turn out to be another boot in the face.
And, I might add that Iraq is all ready perhaps the most secularized and Westernized so called Arab
nation, they are as I understand it more of a Babylonian operation in practice. Which may explain
why the more traditional societies of the region aren't kicking up much of a fuss, or, they may just
be happy it isn't them.
W mode off.
>We have built ourselves a society dependent on cheap oil. We live in subdivisions not
>neighborhoods. We can no longer ride our bikes or walk to school, work, or the grocery store. It
>doesn't take long reading r.b.m. to figure out that our society is built to the scale of the SUV,
>that the average person out there on the road will not accept any inconvenience no matter how
>trivial that interferes with their God-given right as Americans to drive massive gas guzzlers at
>high speed anywhere and any time they wish. Consider what it says about our political landscape
>that our cycling is regarded by the majority as somewhere between "quaint" and "get off my road".
Check out that big paragraph. You aren't making this quotation process any easier, this is like
Henry Kissinger ordering breakfast.
I think you are too pessimistic. In fact what you say about the direction of American society in
terms of cycling is true, but I think your emphasis is wrong. There may be many Americans who manage
quite well without an SUV, and who don't choose to accept that lifestyle.
I think that if one wants to make a difference the battlefield needs to be carefully chosen.
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