There were some things said here worth addressing (some are more 'party line-esque' swipes at capitalism, and american hegemony, etc...)
*when terms like "freedom" "liberty" "democracy" are thrown around so thoughtlesly like they are in the u.s., people actually beleive that they are those things
Yes, at it's extreme, it is pure Orwell. We do not control foreign policy from the ballot box, and even those people we elect are not first-person controllers of foreign policy. But don't worry, Victory is available by the glass.
*if europeans feel that americans do not think enough before reacting
It's not just the Europeans.
The proximate cause of the 9-11 attacks were plans and covert private militia that were in turn harbored and supported by what was then the de-facto Afghan government, who in turn were supported by the Pakistanis who in turn are the closest US allies in that region.
HTF did that happen? Read in Time magazine that in 2000 when the outgoing adminstration wanted to brief the incoming on the terrorist threat, they were brushed off, thanks no thanks we'll take it from here.
Everybody was stunned by these events, we are still stunned and the reason that the number of people voted the way they did was because that choice was crafted to appear as if a a nice warm hole would be provided to stick their ostrich heads in while the military made dull bumping noises outside.
I do not agree with the majority of the anti-capitalist rhetoric, but it is absolutely the case the US has an Oil problem and we need to admit that Oil has taken control of our lives and we are powerless over it
, then *really* get on the twelve step program to alternative energy.
The Europeans do us a huge service when they point out at every possible opportunity that the American people were let down by the idiotic web of illusory control that was being operated by people who siphon off BILLIONS of dollars of tax money and who are *not* elected but appointed or hired 'career' diplomats, because, guess what, THEY see the 'working end' of what these people we're paying do and WE DON'T.
Most people in the US still aren't interested the right way, and
this is to the discredit of the US public at large, and in the interest of keeping the ostrich hole nice and opaque if one does happen to be interested, we're not going to hear about it from sources here.
