Reply #48: So you're saying,

[Burning Water]

The real forces in American politics are the ones who pump money into the corrupt elites. That is where the power emanates from, and the elites don't care a whit for what the people think, other than to keep them distracted with truckloads of fluff, that the corrupt elites cannot demagogue their way into rousing up the sheeple? I really think we should define terms to carry on this discussion as we don't seem to be speaking the same language. If the corrupt elites did not need the people, they wouldn't have to keep them distracted.

The people can be led, to where they want to go. Sometimes they can be led where they don't want to go. I suspect that most Americans feel that Spain is entitled to its own foreign policy, as is the United States. So why would they worry if Spain disagreed with us?? What I am afraid of, however, is that there might be a severe backlash against those who encouraged or applauded a foreign government trying American soldiers for events in which they had already been cleared by the American government. Somehow I suspect the people who did so would once again be tarred with the "unpatriotic" or "treasonous" slur by the modern McCarthyites who run the government. Why give them the ammunition??

And, as we seem to have diverged from my original point I will repeat it. The Spanish judge is posturing and grand-standing. He will never see these soldiers in court. As long as he is doing this, why not do it big?? Why not issue an international arrest warrant for Bush, Cheney, or Rumsfeld?