tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post226107512406514176..comments2024-01-22T18:22:29.391-08:00Comments on hedera's corner: Safetyhederahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-35317511185617328032010-11-26T05:59:13.491-08:002010-11-26T05:59:13.491-08:00Heddie:
I think the whole "war on terror&quo...Heddie:<br /><br />I think the whole "war on terror" was a plot cooked up by Cheney and his cronies right after 9/11. "How can we use this crisis to further our aims?" The obvious thing about stirring up fear and diverting people when you're rifling their wallets is to convince them they're "in a war"--and then you can institute all kinds of unreasonable "martial law" measures. What's a war on terror--a permanent, open-ended condition with no fixed entity. When does it end?--"when we say it does!" <br /><br />With a permanent "war on terror" we could invade any country in the world, suspend all sorts of freedoms (search and seizure, freedom of speech, habias corpus, privacy), all in the name of some vaunted "emergency" which was like a blank check against the Treasury, and our political tolerance. <br /><br />What would have happened if we'd never invaded Iraq and Afghanistan? Would we still have our burgeoning deficit?<br /><br />I fantasize Bin Laden in one of his primitive caves, chuckling with his subordinates: "Binny, have you heard what they're doing at their airports? Sticking their fingers up between the passengers' legs! Using "x-ray" vision machines!" (laughter all around). This is exactly what they had in mind ten years ago when they dreamed up the jet hijacks. We've done everything--EVERYTHING--they'd have wanted. 9/11 was a total and unmitigated success for Al Queda. Our standing in the world has fallen irreparably, and we find ourselves now confronting our real enemy--China. And the outcome is by no means certain, as it would have been, just a decade ago. The real war is always about money, and China has always known that. That's the war we'll probably lose, not the fake "war on terror."Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-2834191252575065662010-11-24T19:54:21.867-08:002010-11-24T19:54:21.867-08:00Very, very well said, hedera (which is now my favo...Very, very well said, hedera (which is now my favorite ivy).<br /><br />David PayneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com