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Originally posted by Buddy
This is a good piece about America's so-called "allies" in Europe. The title is "America's Antagonistic Allies"
The author is George Handlery
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Its really a subtle explanation of how America now must make the same mistakes that Europe made. Suddenly America must save the world from itself. If they don't conform to our standards, then we will force American standards on them. They must want democracy because all people must want democracy - and to be saved by Christianity?
If some actually think, then we will bury them in rhetoric about patriotism, flag waving, speeches from a drug addict called Rush Limbaugh, and 'gods chosen people'. Those alone prove the Europeans must be stupid.
Once Americans were smarter which was why Americans were admired virtually everywhere. America even stopped Britian and France from attacking Egypt - because such war solves nothing. Americans could walk into a war zone as friends of both sides when Americans did not force American values on everyone. When America did not try to save everyone from themselves. When America was not a world policeman. When America did not spend more money on military adventures than upon anything else.
Today, Americans have a testostertone complex. We are right. Then we seek facts to justify that conclusion. Everyone who thinks differently must be America's enemy or a fag. No wonder American popularity dropped from 70% numbers to single digit numbers throughout the world. So many actually think this George Handlery nonsense makes sense - a classic example of reliving the mistakes of history. What happens when Americans are so superior as see enemies everywhere - even among America's closest allies? Its called McCarthyism.
These young studs never learned from VietNam or Somolia. We are right because we spend more on military than the entire world combined. That alone proves we must be right. Its called extremism. "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vise"? Tell that to 50,000 wasted American lives in SE Asia because we were Americans - and therefore must be right. Thirty years have passed. A new generation of Americans knows so much more because might makes right; the lessons of history be damned.
George Handlery writes reason justified by testosterone - because America is superior to all foreigners. We need kill another 50,000 American to relearn? Too many experts need not learn from history.
Actually, George Handlery's article mocks the extremist rhetoric - when viewed from the perspective of logic. Smart Americans don't see enemies everywhere - as George Handlery and George Jr does. American had friends everywhere when paranoia was not represented in the White House. George Handlery advocates that paranoia - where everyone is a potential enemy.
Just as that Wolfovich article proclaimed when it called for preemptive (Pearl Harbor type) attacks on Germany, Russia, and India. Paranoia. They must be enemies.