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Re: Hezbollah Trains Iraqi Militants, Says Interrogation Reports

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Originally Posted by Luap View Post
This looks like more of the same thing, though, demonizing America. No foreign state influence is really wanted anywhere, but it's a fact of international relations that there are stronger states and weaker states, and that the former impose their will on the latter. A rather regime of international law and international institutions has developed over the decades, but there is still no denying that powerful states can and will do what they desire. If history had a different trajectory, then it is entirely possible that North America would be subject to foreign occupation and manipulation. When it comes to the energy supply that makes civilization work, it is not just a "Middle Eastern affair," either. Every industrial and developing state has an interest in what happens to the oil supply of the world.

Also, it's a weak attempt, IMO, to attack the American government pledging money to Burma. If that is so bad, why not comment on the fact that America is one of the more actively opposed states to the military junta that is essentially the reason so many people died because of lack of infrastructure? Why not villify China or India or Russia for supporting the junta with business and weapons?
The fact of the matter is that we do support such disgusting regimes, when it suits the vested interests of the elites.

For myself, it's a scathing indictment on humanity that we haven't evolved beyond power politics and reached a point where international law is more than just a cheap pretense, and it is for this reason that another world war is all but a certainty.

Hope you aren't planning on having any children, Luap, because as ugly as things presently are, it's nothing compared to what is in store for us in the very near future.
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