Not the end of conflict, certainly not the end of fighting . . . but it
is worth considering that as we blindly multiply our efforts toward a
supremacy-gap between ourselves and the rest of the world in military
hardware, the enemy is dissolving before our eyes. What can we possibly
be thinking? More to the point, what can the rest of the world possibly think we are thinking?
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The typical conservative leans back on his couch, meditatively stirs
his Chivas and water with a pinkie and declares (with some considerable
justification) "Well, it’s their own damned fault if they got in over their head. What the hell were they thinking?"
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Just when you think every possible outrage has been committed in the
name of George Bush's policy of pre-emptive war, something more comes
from the blind-side to knock the wind from an already winded American
experience.
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A brutally frank and honest assessment of our past 30 years would make
the argument there is little hope for the credit-addicted working poor
but a '29 style crash. An entire nation has been sold down the river of
hopeless wages and easy credit.
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