Posted on 05/02/2013 11:48:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
No, that’s just a leftist bogeyman. The elites in the European Union play that harp a lot to keep their populaces favoring socialism. As do US leftists.
You have a phenomenal underestimation of the power of business interests, leave alone other strategic interests of the US in Asia such as military bases, installations and territories.
There is a reason why Saudi Arabia is so influential within the US government. They can send and whisk away citizens at will, and the US fights their wars for them. Almost like a client slave state, shedding blood and treasure for the Saudis.
Business entities are dictating government and public policies, including in strategic areas like immigration, with the voting population literally powerless to do anything, if it cares.
The days of total slaughter-based domination ended generations ago. The world of Carthage is not the world we live in today.
If your country can shed blood for Saudi Muslim scum, and fight their battles for them, your enlistment into war is an India-China nuclear exchange away.
America is one of the reported rape capitals of the planet. In many of those lighter-colored countries, rape is not a reported crime, but business-as-usual.
We have a fag army now so all is well.
Public apathy is a gauge of that. Business-as-usual is why the Steubenville and other rapes got swatted out of the public fora here whereas the one Delhi incident brought out massive protests and legal changes in the other.
There are darker shades in Africa reflecting anecdotal reports. That map is not too inaccurate, and establishes the high rape rates in the US.
“They can send and whisk away citizens at will, and the US fights their wars for them.”
That worked 100 years ago when a semi-literate population could be sold on the Kaiser’s menace to the world (as Americans died for Britain - on whose empire the sun never set - talk about a threat to freedom in the world). Today people are too smart to die for Saudis; we currently use a volunteer force because that allows our government to p!ss their lives away with little reaction from the American public.
The Iraq wars and the arming of Egypt, the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia, US forces securing the area for them, the Afghan wars, reining in on Shia Iran at the behest of arch-rival Sunni Saudis, the whisking away of Saudi terror suspects without investigation, etc., are all happening in the present, not the distant past.
“are all happening in the present, not the distant past”
As indicated in my post, when was the last time you saw a peace demonstration?
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