The Foreign Policy of an Obama
Administration
COMMENTS New
Proud Nation
Posted,
Saturday, November 22, 2008 4:52 pm About a week ago, I read your article entitled,
"The Foreign Policy of an Obama Administration." In it, you
referred to the United States as a "proud nation." Thank you, my
friend. We are a proud nation and a proud people. We have been led very poorly over the past eight years.
You recognized that Bush policy was not the policy of the American people.
Bush was not speaking for us, not even close. The American people do not
support pre-emptive war. We recognize that pre-emptive is just a nice word
for aggressive. We want nothing to do with an empire. Historically, empires
have proven to be the major cause of fallen nations from the Roman Empire to
the British Empire. Beyond peaceful trading with other nations, mostly we
just want to be left alone. The latter I know is a dream, no problem with
dreaming. Sandy New
Right on the Money
Posted,
Thurday, November 13, 2008 2:25 am Bravo! You strike me as a Noam Chomsky without the
off-putting anger. Thank you for another brief, concise & right on the
money essay. An observation vis a vis the elections. Background: our
Republican Party is little more than an amalgam of the old Deep South
Democrats who felt - and still feel - sold-out by the Northern Democrats
and President Lyndon Johnson, and it was about damned time! The Civil
Rights & Voting acts of the mid 1960's wed our old iron-bound racist
Dixiecrats, Boll Weevils & Peckerwoods to our lower-profile northern
racists who have always been with us BUT who didn't develop a Jim Crow
culture after the Civil War. This was racism theory as supported by the fact that
John McCain ran an uninspiring, despicable campaign with as few concrete
reasons for my supporting him as he had scurrilous anti-Obama ("That
One") half truths . . . and still he pulled 46% of the 130 million votes
cast. I believe that it's fair to say that (1) had Obama been white and (2)
had all of the ballots been cast on paper, McCain & Palin wouldn't have
gathered enough votes to wipe their noses. Dave New
Could Not Agree More
Posted,
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:19 pm Could not agree more. You did leave out a couple of important events in the
prewar history of the US as a rogue and terrorist country. Just like Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, we
basically took over Hawaii, (by the mighty US navy putting a gun to the
Queen's head) a perfectly peaceful, non-armed, non threatening, friendly and
helpless country. Nobody in the US government has had the decency or
courage to answer the question I have raised with them which is, "if
Teddy Roosevelt can run amok and go charging up his horse on san juan hill in
Cuba with his bunch of vigilantes, and Ronald (perfect vaccum) Reagan can do
similarly in Grenada, why can't Saddam Hussein run amok on his tank in the
deserts of Kuwait, which was a part of his country when the Turks ruled that
part of the world?" (Hawaii was never a part of the US, nor were,
California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, etc. etc.!) It was the classical 'divide and conquer' policy of the
white christian imperialists of Britain and France that deliberately created
the strife ridden Middle East of today when they created countries like
Lebanon, Kuwait out of whole cloth to suit their needs, just like the US
created Panama out of Colombia. The US continues this policy of divide and conquer all
over the world today (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq are examples). Think of this fact: There is not one inch of US territory that was not
acquired by war and violence and terrorism, (or bought from others who
acquired it similarly: Louisiana)
the Gadsden purchase from Mexico being a very partial small exception,
because the basic treaty of Gudalupe-Hidalgo was a sham as it allowed the US
to steal half of Mexico. The other fact I want to bring to your attention is the
human sacrifice that FDR engaged in by allowing over 2500 US forces to be
slaughtered at Pearl Harbor when he implemented his secret 8 point plan of
forcing Japan to attack so he could go fight Hitler, (when over 75% of the
country did not want war with Germany), and become a world power and at the
same time get the country out of the Great Depression. Both the US and Britain had broken the Japanese navy
codes and FDR is on record concluding 'this means war' two days before the
attack and yet not informing the army and navy chiefs at pearl of the impending
attack (the two commanders had a date to play golf togther on the day of the
attack! The three crucial US navy cable intercepts that would
prove this are conveniently 'missing' from naval records and bletchly park in
Britain conveniently extended the secret classification of the documents
there, which were supposed to be made public 50 years after the war, were
reclassified secret for another 50 years! This clearly indicates that the two so called
democratic powers do not wish to let their people (and others) to know what
happened. Welcome to the world of British/gringo-nazi democracy! It is this kind of white christian
imperialistic/terroristic behavior that causes 9/11 to happen, and which will
be repeated if things don't change in the white christian mind. Mazdi New
The New American Empire is not so new
Posted,
Monday, November 3, 2008 5:31 pm The New American Empire is not so new. And Bush-Cheney
didn't "introduce" torture into the mix. However, they have
destroyed three countries in the process, namely Afghanistan, Iraq and the
USA. These are the men, Bush-Cheney, whom have full-filled the American Dream
of Wide Spectrum Dominance and should be held accountable for that. However,
the USA is not what it has been made out to be and has had a long list of
leaders, presidents, and congress criters, whom have made the ideal of
freedom just a mirage, what with the current police state that we inhabit. It
is not these two men alone that have gotten us to this point. No, it took the
general stupidity of the American populace to follow them there, along with
the others, such as Clinton, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy,
Eisenhower, and not the least Trumann, to establish the National Security
State, the DEA, CIA and the whole host of criminal forces that make the USA
the greatest terrorist organization that ever existed, at home and abroad.
For this reason, the people of the USA find themselves in the position they
are in... JC (Home: TheNewAmericanEmpire.com) |