Comments on: The Bush administration's Imperial Grand Strategy

The Bush administration's Imperial Grand Strategy

Postroad — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:16:44 -0800

Dominance and Its Dilemmas Noam Chomsky.What more be said? Those on the Left: Appaud. On the Right: sneer. If you are brither than a 15 watt bulb : read and then decide.

By: Postroad

Postroad — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:17:28 -0800

sorry about typs! early in the morning.

By: RavinDave

RavinDave — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:35:34 -0800

I really enjoy these tranquil and sedate weekend mornings ...

By: kozad

kozad — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 05:06:55 -0800

Given what has happened in the last year or so, Chomsky doesn't sound as radical as he used to (except, perhaps, when he calls preventive war "very simply, the "supreme crime" condemned at Nuremberg.").

By: angry modem

angry modem — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 06:16:00 -0800

I'm brither than the sun, baby.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 06:47:57 -0800

I am more blithe than a 15 watt bulb. Thanks for the post.

By: drgonzo

drgonzo — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 06:50:59 -0800

I can't wait for the missiles to start flying towards Ottawa whenever we disobey. Oh wait, I forgot, they don't need to use missiles on everyone; too expensive... they already routinely violate others' sovereignty by threatening to destroy free trade, slowing truck traffic to a molasses crawl and imposing fictitious and draconian tariffs on goods if their laws are not obeyed in other countries. "If they don't give us what we like...." A janus of peaceful and warlike hegemony, certainly.

By: hama7

hama7 — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 08:08:42 -0800

*sneer*

By: adnanbwp

adnanbwp — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 08:51:25 -0800

Ownership of space? I guess it is important to own a way out for the elite commanders when they nuke the earth to oblivion.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:43:57 -0800

Those on the Left: Appaud. On the Right: sneer. Those in the middle: duck.

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:48:23 -0800

Those in the middle: duck. Those in the Z-2 layer: scramble for the vomit bags.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 11:59:09 -0800

Left, Right, Dems, Reps , Nazi, Commy ...this is all so 1990. Now it's Evil vs Good. Just history repeating, I guess...

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:27:23 -0800

When the occupying army failed to discover WMD, the administration's stance shifted from "absolute certainty" that Iraq possessed WMD to the position that the accusations were "justified by the discovery of equipment that potentially could be used to produce weapons." Senior officials suggested a "refinement" in the concept of preventive war that entitles the United States to attack "a country that has deadly weapons in mass quantities." The revision "suggests instead that the administration will act against a hostile regime that has nothing more than the intent and ability to develop [WMD]." The bars for resort to force are significantly lowered. This modification of the doctrine of "preventive war" may prove to be the most significant consequence of the collapse of the declared argument for the invasion. Here's hopin' not.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:42:04 -0800

US soldiers bulldoze farmers' crops US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking US troops.

By: Sxyzzx

Sxyzzx — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:57:22 -0800

I didn't know jazz could blare.

By: the fire you left me

the fire you left me — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:22:56 -0800

An excellent point is made regarding the uprising in the early nineties. There was a great chance for an Iraq led by the people, or the Kurds, at least, as Washington allowed them to die in terrible, mass death. Was Sadaam so much better for invading?

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:36:55 -0800

Speaking of the Kurds, don't miss Ralph Peters' latest column: Bush's Betrayal.

By: mitchel

mitchel — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:27:38 -0800

kurds = red herring after all what interest do neocons have in giving kurds a state? none in fact, though they enjoy talking about it for symbolic reasons