Quote Originally Posted by woodman
Pete:
I can hardly believe that you spent all of that time trying to rebut what I found to be a very concise, to the point (albeit tongue-in-cheek) "explanation" of world affairs, put into language that most any child of reasonable intelligence would understand. Why would you do so? Doesn't it bother you even a little that there's so much hypocrisy going on in world affairs? Over the course of decades, we've supported all sorts of "evil-doers" until we decided that we didn't want to support them any longer ... then, more often than not, they became our "enemy". What a sham! In fact, to quote Woody Allen from the film "Bananas" .... "what a mockery of a hoax of two shams of a mockery" or something like that.

Did you go to all that trouble because you felt that the "explanation" made Dubya's decisions look as imbecilic (to a child or anyone else) as they actually were?
Woodman,

I know you'd agree with this post!

My "rebuttal" sprang from the basic fact that I disagree with it. This makes me- what? Has the US done awful things? Of course. And no Democrat will change this, OR do things much differently than currently being done.

Changing allies in a hard world is a fact of life, or death, depending on your point of view. Both are accurate.

One things' for sure: the world the US has built is far superior to ANY other model. You could have Communism. You could have European socialism, the view I see in this thread, that has Autocratic gov't spoon feeding the population, the same people who led us to 2 world wars (and many, many others before it), and now possess the leadership ability (and authority) of a spoon. You could have Islam. How about Nazi-ism? Or pick a number of utopian pie-in-the-sky alternates the elite would sell us, which in reality WILL sell us, as in out, no longer to be free.

Pete

BTW, I'm not out to be a hater. It's all in the family.