Reply #494: Modern domino theory.

[JackRiddler]

As in Indochina, the force likeliest to push over the dominoes are the US aims and policies of war: as ever ill-informed, destabilizing, arrogant, duplicitous -- their variety of material interests cloaked in pious missionary ideologies -- profit-seeking, chaotic, murderous, imperialist, insane and ultimately self-destructive.

Too bad the realization of the last comes only after millions die, with twenty or one hundred brown foreign people killed for every precious US soldier. (Not counting the belated casualties of war injuries, PSTD, freak-outs and whatever poisons will inevitably come to be associated with this war.)

Do the reflexive geostrategists of unreal "realpolitik" and might-surely-makes-right never tire of being wrong, decade after decade? Of course not, because that's their job. So they seek out the next threat and the bloody merry-go-round starts again, and always there are those who will step up to help the inspiring new leader as he discovers new and better, more humane reasons to go to war.

Brzezinski was among the professors at Obama's department as an undergrad at Columbia. Figures.

But what's your excuse for identifying with the war machine rather than its victims, Freddie Stubbs?