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Originally Posted by Undertoad
What grows government more than anything else: Stalinism. It's in everyone's interest that the last evidence of Stalinism be removed from the world. Only then will it truly be possible to change the U.S. military mission to something cheaper.
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Dude.
The power concentrated in our Presidency is evidence of the fight to end real Stalinism. We cannot remove every trace. Our propping up of dictators to fight all the little Stalins is a major reason we have no standing in the mid-east. It is time to leave the sandbox to the kids who own the yard. They'll decide who their masters are going to be anyway.
Our present belligerent attitude is energizing terrorism and militarism. We have forced Iran's hand, they will have the bomb unless Israel or the US drops the hammer. I've heard enough fantasizing about US hegemony wrapped in a cloak of realism. That attitude is nonsense. The phoney realists have us in a no-win situation in Iraq and have strengthed the radical clerics in Iran. We don't need any phoney realism now. We need what Bush pretended his foreign policy would be before his election and the hijacking of the Republican Party.
BTW- We both know the differance between mercantilism and capitalism even if our politicians don't. It's still Hamilton vs Jefferson.