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SDR
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Unfortunately, "Crazy Ed," I think you may have put your finger on it. . .
Good thing "it" wasn't the "red button". . .!
Then there's: our trade imbalance, the national debt, the implosion of social services (due in part to the growth of the retirement sector and the impossible cost of health care delivery), the gutting of environmental regulation combined with a determined ignorance of our part in the production of greenhouse gasses, etc, etc, etc
Lord help us -- whether we deserve it or not.
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csintexas
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My best guess would be that there is no attack on Iran comming anytime soon. For some reason the US government often uses threats instead of diplomacy but mostly both at the same time. Oil is the life blood of the US economy and in the end, when oil truely becomes scarce, we may very well have some major problems because of it.
We have time to fix all of these things. The problem is people do not respond until something becomes a crisis.
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Ed Ziomek
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:27 am Post subject: Time to fix? No profit in that... |
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Chris... certainly there is always time to fix. My problem is that it seems politicians want the problem, much, much more than any solution.
Solutions are easier for you and me, but have no dollar short term dollar profit. Profits and maintianing power are with the problems, I guess. What is Haliburton making on the war? Guess... $10 million per day? Does anyone know?
And yes, Cheney is alleged to receive $1 million per year, in "pre-retirement money" from Haliburton, or so I have been told. Conflict of interest? No, of course not.
I don't know anything anymore. I can't figure it out.
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csintexas
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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Certainly seems like a conflict of interest to me.
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Ed Ziomek
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject: Reflections on Viet Nam's Past |
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I don't know why I continually reflect on times past to try and solve the riddles of today, but let me take you back to Saigon, 1964, when Diem was overthrown by CIA sponsored military.
At the same time of the Diem overthrown, I would read about Bhuddist monks immolating themselves in public displays of disgust and revolt over the occurrences within their country.
I could never understand why, and it is easy for me to sit 10,000 miles away from Iraq or Afghanistan and try and fathom the internal suffering and suicide that is tearing a country apart, with America in the middle.
Now, looking back on the 1.5 million Vietnamese dead, and the roughly 50,000 American dead (in-country), and the staggering collateral deaths in Cambodia and Laos and even in America that happened AFTER 1964, I can now understand why Bhuddist monks might take their own lives simply to protest the out-of-control governments of the United States and Saigon.
I have even talked to a Vietnamese citizen, here in the United States who told me of the final minutes of Diem, who, with his brother, took shelter in a convoy of tanks. A famous South Vietnamese general named "Big Minh" apparently knocked on the top of the tank, advising them to open up and he would protect them, etc. etc. Bang, Bang, they were both killed.
Big Minh went on to a successful??? short career with the South Vietnamese military, and at the end, negotiated the surrender of the South to the North, then was officially arrested, and immediately released!... Apparently by his own brother who was a general in.... drum roll, ....the National Liberation Front!
So the top Vietnamese General in sponsorship by the Americans may have been a double agent.
Now Iraq. Not a civil war? Not brother against brother? Not double dealing with us and against us?
Who can win in this environment? I tell you how America "Won" in Vietnam.
A. We left.
or
B. We were kicked out.
America can win, by leaving, or never going in the first place.
Everybody loses in war. Does America know the lessons of history?
Is America prepared to win the peace? Do we know how to win the peace?
Not yet, I truly believe.
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