Thursday, July 08, 2004
Who's zoomin who?
The goddessAretha
We ask that question first of Israel....who has decided that Iran will go after them first in a nuclear first strike. Why Iran would do such a thing has not yet been publicly explained to Israel or to US citizens. But our government has decided saber rattling about Iran is the best way intimidate Iran about nukes. Given that Iran has told the US in return that they're not going to scrap their nuclear program even with our previous threats this hardly seems like it will work either. But as we all know, Bush is a master foreign policy expert and diplomat so everything will work out just fine. Right?
Next we pose "Who's zoomin' who?" to our President and his merry band of Stetson adorned evil fighters. This cabal seems intent on implementing a nontested, nonworking missile defense system. piece by retired general Robert G Guard asks why we're dumping all this money into implementation when we've essentially skipped the real testing process. I frankly don't understand why we're focusing on this system at all. The real threats against the US aren't from ballistic missiles launched from another country. It's from individuals who sneak into the US and do attacks from within.
Is this just another effort at an homage to Reagan? Are the wheel greasers of the Bush Campaign so important as to keep the Department of Defense focused on an untested and unworkable system because they are bathed in cash so deep that it keeps the Executive from focusing on the real dangers?
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We ask that question first of Israel....who has decided that Iran will go after them first in a nuclear first strike. Why Iran would do such a thing has not yet been publicly explained to Israel or to US citizens. But our government has decided saber rattling about Iran is the best way intimidate Iran about nukes. Given that Iran has told the US in return that they're not going to scrap their nuclear program even with our previous threats this hardly seems like it will work either. But as we all know, Bush is a master foreign policy expert and diplomat so everything will work out just fine. Right?
Next we pose "Who's zoomin' who?" to our President and his merry band of Stetson adorned evil fighters. This cabal seems intent on implementing a nontested, nonworking missile defense system. piece by retired general Robert G Guard asks why we're dumping all this money into implementation when we've essentially skipped the real testing process. I frankly don't understand why we're focusing on this system at all. The real threats against the US aren't from ballistic missiles launched from another country. It's from individuals who sneak into the US and do attacks from within.
Is this just another effort at an homage to Reagan? Are the wheel greasers of the Bush Campaign so important as to keep the Department of Defense focused on an untested and unworkable system because they are bathed in cash so deep that it keeps the Executive from focusing on the real dangers?
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