Hey, but they are "enemy combatants" so the rules don't apply
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Unfortunately, one day anyone who opposes the government, even in the most righteous of circumstances, will be an "enemy" one day.
Who would have known that we would not only import Chinese made goods but our government would import their political philosophy.
Let's be thankful that China has not imported our affinity for murdering people around the world.
Good points! On a related topic of American Global death and destruction
we've all heard the last few weeks of Iran's threat of something big tomorrow (2/11) that is suppose to shock the western world. What will it be? Some suggest the balloon will go up and Iran will either reveal a secret nuke program with weapons to match to an attack on Israel or even American assets in the Middle East. Nothing is impossible when it comes to the loonies that run Iran but let's be honest, it'd be an act of sheer suicide and Iran wouldn't live to see the sun set on it's ancient and historic lands and I think the folks in power, not unlike our own loonies here, are more concerned about staying in power for tomorrow and next week than being a national martyr for some Pan-Islamic cause.
Now this hasn't stopped our own loonies of benefacting from the whole affair as AP ran a pure propaganda piece on Iran nuke program only to later retract it and offer up a different storyline. Scott Horton at Antiwar Radio
interviewed Antiwar.com editor Jason Ditz on the matter and Scott takes a little fun/political license suggesting Jason forced AP's hand to pull the story but regardless of why, AP did pull it. It doesn't help matters that Iran's leaders and Islamic leadership council lends itself at times to being easily demonized but if Iran takes some physical, military approach tomorrow, I believe it's bye-bye Iran.
However, what might be more plausible and makes good sense is an economic strike and Iran is fully capable of that as we speak. In 2006' Iran and the US weren't best buds but they had a behind the scenes relationship in regards to the situation at the time in Iraq. It's easy to forget that Iran
supported the US Iraq invasion and granted motives weren't the same obviously, they weren't the enemy then that they are painted to be now. So what happened, where did the train jump the tracks? I'm sure the warhawks can supply many answers but there's an old saying, follow the money. Iran, like Saddam was in good standing, even tolerated but Saddam made a
critical error in the late 90's and began a quest to circumvent the global money of western control of oil trading by trading oil not in dollars but in euros. Saddam's Oil Bourse threatened the dollar as the global reserve currency but then Iran followed suit and it was learned 2004/2005 that Iran would open it's
own bourse and at first rumors flew that this new State owned market would trade in gold but later this subsided or found lacking. Regardless, Iran was now squarely in the gunsights of US economic hegemony and it's storebought pitbull otherwise known as the US Miltary.
If I had to guess tomorrow what Iran could do that would strike a huge blow to western power and yet not be a physical provacation, it is to announce to the world of the wide open trading of oil for Euros or even some other currency at the
Iranian oil bourse on Kish Island. What plays into Iran's favor is the simple fact that for some time
other global states have been lining up against the current dollar domination and now the time is right to strike if this is what Iran has planned. It's brillant if not perfect and leaves American monetary monopoly with egg on it's face and utterly powerless to do anything about it unless it chooses to show it's true imperialist power and use pure might but then the storyline of spreading freedom and democracy could clearly be seen as the sham that it always has been.
Tomorrow will be an interesting day indeed and it may come to past of nothing more than the Iranian fearless peter..uh I mean leader just verbally posturing and chest thumping for the home folks knowing most of them can't see from outside the forest. However, if he plays the economic trump card that all the little pieces have been lining up to play, Obama and the Congress, both the democrat and republican heirarchy may indeed find themselves facing a gov't that is completely broke but the question is, how will they bankrupt? They did in 71' but were able to do so by closing the gold window and telling the world to pound sand at the death of Bretton Woods. There is no gold window now so will they collaspe or hyper inflate? I'm betting the latter! And it may not be just Iran
laughing tomorrow either but we did it to ourselves. Never fight a bigger, stronger opponent to his strenghts, sucker him in and defeat him with his weakness. Damn idiots in Washington, All of them!
Oh, and for those who are rolling their eyes of a bankruptcy of the US in 1971'? That was actually the 2nd 20th century bankruptcy as the first happened in 1933' when FDR closed the domestic gold window. You see, the promissary note you and I call a dollar use to look like
this and had the 4 components to make it a true promissary note. A payor, a payee, a due date and an amount paid to the presenter. In the case above, the payor is the Federal Reserve Bank, the payee is the one who holds the note, due date is when presented and the amount is $10. This was the same as a
promissary note we commonly call a mortgage and is the source of the old saying, "my bank holds
a note on my house." That note had the 4 critieria of any common promissary note, payor (you) payee (the bank) due date (end of 30 years by installment) and the amount (total at end of 30 years). If we no longer have the means to pay we stop payment and in effect commit an
act of bankruptcy so to speak. It's then up to the note holder to begin legal processes to retrieve property and if then a 3rd party is called in by the debtor to negociate a settlement between debtor and all claimants. In 1933' the US gov't told all US citizens it was refusing to pay it's debt to the citizenry (a debt of labor and goods exchanged for a medium of exchange in the form of a hard currency commodity represented in a paper IOU we commonly call a dollar) and then in 1971' it told the same to the world. In either case, the claimants at damage either were powerless or refused to sue for settlement. So in reality the US has bankrupted twice (unable to pay it's debts), with the first time being 20 years after the Federal Reserve was created, the 2nd was nearly 40 years later and now 40 plus years later again, where do we find ourselves? Seeing a pattern here folks?
As I said, tomorrow will be an interesting day indeed. Global payback?
It's a pure crapshoot how it will turn out.
