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In reply to the discussion: I realize this is not a popular sentiment, but I don't give a damn [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)neocons crap that Bush pushed. We are strong, we must anoint ourselves to be the lone protector of goodness over badness. Well, that sounds so wonderful I had to stand up when I wrote it. While that sounds noble, it has a few problems that you don't address. While you are off spending trillions on war, Americans are dying in poverty. But conservatives don't care as long as the war profits are up. Whose America are we protecting? Ask someone standing in a soup line if they fear terrorists.
I will admit that the dream is a nice dream, where we can successfully decide who is bad and who is good and kill only the bad. Of course conservatives believe they have this power, but they have a terrible track record. We have set up terrible dictators to stamp out the insurgent terrorists, and some times we have helped the insurgents against terrible dictators. And in each case the conservatives will tell you that we are doing the honorable thing. These conservatives are blind to the fact that they are being manipulated by the neocons, the MIC, and their Corp-Media.
It would be cool if we could determine the good guys from the bad, but most of the time it's impossible. And most of the time our corp-controlled govment isn't trying. They are basing their decisions on politics and/or economics.