tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post362963423436134426..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Memorial DayJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-11996990411444835712013-05-27T14:36:13.686-05:002013-05-27T14:36:13.686-05:00Remember, a lot of people in 2008-2009 believed th...<i>Remember, a lot of people in 2008-2009 believed that the US would find a way to keep a major troop presence in Iraq; that didn't happen.<br /><br />(Yes, Libya,....</i><br /><br />Is there still oil in Iraq? Then we still have troops there. We <i>have</i> to. It just stands to reason. Like the thousands of US troops still stationed in Libya, after the invasion last year, again because of the oil. They'll be there till the last drop is pumped. <br /><br />The government is just lying to us.<br /><br />It's <i>always</i> about the oil. And US imperialism never changes.<br /><br />Look, I learned certain ways of looking at what drives American foreign policy thirty, forty years ago, and I just don't have the time, or the energy, to learn any new ones just now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-88388675318945634982013-05-27T10:53:48.864-05:002013-05-27T10:53:48.864-05:00And here's hoping that you've managed to k...And here's hoping that you've managed to keep your feet dry despite San Antonio's flooding.Scott Monjenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-46903192657885285172013-05-27T10:25:10.585-05:002013-05-27T10:25:10.585-05:00You're positive interpretation would be my ans...You're positive interpretation would be my answer to yesterday's question for Liberals.zicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-59399897047690142392013-05-27T10:23:39.654-05:002013-05-27T10:23:39.654-05:00Good post, and you may well be right that both int...Good post, and you may well be right that both interpretations are (at least partly) correct. To my mind the positive interpretation carries more weight, especially given the power of what Eisenhower termed the military-industrial complex, and of the dominant foreign/military policy groupthink in Washington.<br /><br />For an anti-war black Kenyan Muslim socialist to successfully wind down two wars and avoid getting entangled in any new ones in those conditions is, from my perspective, an impressive accomplishment.massappealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17883213166005005577noreply@blogger.com