Re: OT: A premonition

On Feb 9, 5:17 pm, bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Feb 9, 6:48 pm, John Larkin



<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9 Feb 2008 16:44:10 GMT, Jim Yanik <jya...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Heck,most foreigners are jealous of the US and it's way of life.
More foreigners want to LIVE here than anywhere else.

The environment doesn't suit everyone's temperament. Historically, the
US differentially attracted the dissenters, the adventurous, and the
unmanageable. But if the borders were truly flung open, a billion
people or so would flood in.

More foreign countries depend on the US for their own security,too.

If it wasn't for the US,the rest of the world would be enslaved by now,and
that embarasses and rankles foreigners.

Chinese proverb: If you save someone's life, they will hate you
forever.

Hmmm, will the Chinese hate us after we've saved them? I suspect not.

Quite a few of the Chilians who were saved from "slavery" by
Pinochet's CIA-backed coup probably did hate the US for the rest of
their lives - being shot or thrown out of a helicopter does tend
prejudice you against the people who orchestrated the coup, and their
relatives are probably still feeling somewhat resentful.

Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" ISBN 978-1-846-14028-0 has quite a
lot to say about this and other US interventions in foreign countries.
In general, the interests of the inhabitants of these countries
doesn't seem to figure largely in US foreign policy.

I have a nice "crack pot theory" I'd like to inject here. I hope you
don't find my shift to humor offencive.

Imagine a world full of people who loved the US and wouldn't even hear
of doing something against it. Would you need a great big CIA and
military in such a world? No. Would the people that are sent around
the world overthrowing folks and spying etc have jobs in such a
world? No. Do people tend to like to keep their current jobs and get
bigger budgets and more staff under them etc? You bet. Why would you
expect folks in the CIA and the military to work towards destroying
their own careers?

Now flip it arround and look at it as though you were in the USSR of
old and the KGB was the primary actor not the CIA.

This explains why neither the US and CIA nor the USSR and KGB were
never able to stomp each other out. Each side was in fact working to
increase the power of the other. Any ttime one side got weaker, its
ability to drive people into the other camp would be reduced and hence
the system would return to balance.

:)


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