Spooge: Actually I completely agree. I guess I kind of made myself unclear. Allow me to wax intellectual for a moment and clarify. I'm not saying it's a bad idea to station our troops abroad. We have interests in seeing many other countries prosper and there's nothing wrong with protecting our interests, however self-serving they are. What I think is that it's a poor idea to be the ONLY protective force is said country or at least the basic backbone that protects it better than it's own militia/military force. Problem with that is that once we leave that country for one reason or another suddenly we've abandoned them and they hate us. Just look at Afghanistan. If we hadn't gone in and heavily armed the "freedom fighters" and helped them beat out the Soviets then It would have been viewed as a communist victory. The situation that occured there was that, after all that help and the Afghanis win the war, we took off leaving not only a destroyed country but a power vacuum. We cared just enough to kick Russian ass but not enough to stick around and clean up. Now they hate us. Sorry for not clarifying earlier.
As for us bombing ourselves...I agree but not for the same reasons. I'm not big into conspiracy theories, so I'll let the good folks at
Alternet do the talking. Basically, if you read down to #9 then you'll see the government has actually planned to attack American interests to get the public behind a war effort. No, I'm not saying that this was an orchestrated event by the American Govt., but they certainly had previous knowledge of the imminent threat and seemingly chose to do nothing. I'm not going to speculate...like I said, I'm not big on conspiracy theories but it is a bit hard to ignore. If anyone here is familiar with the statute for criminally negligent homicide, you'll catch my drift.