it's like getting hannibal lecter to babysit
No matter our feelings about the war, all of us hope for a better future for the people of Iraq. A future where Iraqis can make their own destiny and be free from war, terror and political oppression.
Yet currently the task of overseeing the transition to democracy in Iraq will fall on the shoulders of a man who was chosen by the Bush Administration in secret. Without a confirmation hearing or even a press interview.
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It is all just so circular, American foreign policy. It goes around and around, and then they have the audacity to have no understanding why it comes back at them!
Posted by: adrienne | April 24, 2003 1:43 AM
That's a good point, but you also have to admit that the rest of the world isn't that stable, and nothing is staying put in an ideological way. It's not as if the rest of the world is utopian and we are destroying it. It's all about adaptability.
And, even though the United States does things that any reasonable person would call heinous, so do the countries in the rest of the world.
Does anyone know where someone can go on the internet to figure out what is going on in Africa? I've read of some amazingly brutal occurences there over the past year, and seen some radically ugly numbers on deaths from illness and war.
Posted by: Grekon Farsi | April 24, 2003 10:12 AM
This is a good place to start: allAfrica.com. Try the Guardian's news guide too.
Posted by: gwen | April 24, 2003 10:49 AM
yes.. I restricted my comments to the current situation in Iraq, with the one main thought in mind being that Bush's bold comments are just a blatent indication that he and his government have no value for an introspective exploration of their history. Because they are hypocrites. Of course there is some nasty stuff going on globally... everybody is behaving very badly! I live in the South Pacific, where successive Australian governments have enforced their own "US-style influences" in the region. However, if a very privileged, very rich hyperpower sets this dangerous precident of massive militaristic intervention in the name of "human rights" .....what next?
Hypocrites.... hypocrites...
Posted by: adrienne | April 24, 2003 11:56 PM