Ever get the feeling these people don’t understand what’s going to happen in the civil war they’re laying the groundwork for?
Yes, they are like the French aristocracy of 1788 who didn’t get it until they were put in carts and driven to the center of Paris where their heads were cut off.
They'll find out PDQ when the food trucks stop arriving at the inner-city groceries.
Pyscho_Bunny:
Why do you think they don’t understand?
In one view, we have been set up to take ourselves out of the international scene, and it is almost a foregone conclusion (may heaven forbid).
Trash the economy; arm the populace to the hilt, create or exploit fault lines between interests; throw in a leadership that makes people buy even more weapons than they had before; get a few misguided, shortsighted, or treasonous leaders to toss out the rule of law; and sit back and wait.
No one is threatened by Yugoslavia.
hmmmm - Cui bono? which government had access to the Oval Office a decade and a half ago? Which government flooded us with hundreds of thousands of cheap “battle” rifles about the same time that weapons bans and rumours of weapons bans were flying around? Which government perhaps spent the most money trying to influence our last election through shell donors? Which government is the number one holder of US debt? Which government has economic or strategic control over most of the worlds shipping lanes (google Global Strategic Positioning)? Which government benefits the most from a US too weak to care about how it treats its citizens? Which country’s economy benefits the most from a US that is no longer the chief competitor for oil and asphalt? Which government would rather let us destroy ourselves than expend its military resources against us when it would be better to save them for conflict with the only other large coastal economic power in its region?
Just some questions, and an observation that we don’t think long term like some other cultures do. Not to downplay the significance of Islam’s war with the West - The West is paying attention not only to the wrong wars but the wrong sort of war, and we will be left behind for it if we do not wake up.
I will not say that it might not even be better for us in the long run, to be a less “powerful player” on the world scene. But I would hope that we will get it together in time to rescue ourselves from ourselves and become strong enough that the world will leave us alone.
Perhaps.
“Ever get the feeling these people don’t understand what’s going to happen in the civil war they’re laying the groundwork for?”
Psychotic adolescents don’t understand anything except the power they’ve gained.
They think they’re brilliant, superior, above it all and
god-like.
Their obnoxious manipulation is without end.
IMHO