Well, I guess I'm in the presence of the moral equivelance crowd. What's sad about this whole goddamned thing is that it will end up becoming a major conflict.
Will end up?
It's been a major conflict for 100 years. The fact that America was impacted recently doesn't mean it suddenly came into existance recently. Nor does our LUDICOURSLY OUT OF PROPORTION OVERREACTION to being attacked suddenly mean that everything's changed.
Get this through your head now so you don't feel a fool in ten years. 9-11 changed ABOSLUTELY NOTHING. The risks we faced on September 10 of that year were no greater than the risks we faced on September 12 of that year. The mindless sheep of this country, however, were taken out of their normal banal ignorant existance for a day and shown thier own mortality. The generation of easily controlled and molded automotons were told again and again how unsafe the world had sudeenly become as opposed to the reality that it was never safe.
It will be far bigger than anything we can see now. There are so many international tensions at work that ten years from now we'll be able to see how much of a turning point 9-11 really was.
That's the most assinine, Amricentric, thing I've ever seen. The truely frightening part is that I think you're not merely misguided enough to believe that it's true, but lazy enough to never bother exploring the reality of the situation. It's become an article of faith for you I imagine. Why did everything change after 9-11? Because Baby W told you so.
It was a wake up call just liek Pearl Harbor. America will always be the world's favorite political battleground. We're the only country it seems that throughout our history the consensus will be "We don't give a crap about you or your problems until you make them ours"
Firstly, the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa are the world's favorite political battlegrounds. Secondly, no one gives a crap about anything until it happens to them. The US has no monopoly on selfishness. What we do have is the power to horribly impact the rest of the world with our selfishness in a way that Ziare, say, can't.
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