But political leaders badly distort reality when they magnify the threat. Worse still, they inflate support for solutions that aren't working now and hold little hope of future success.
What Washington and its few close allies are trying to achieve is theoretically constructive. Spreading democracy, confronting fanatics and keeping unpredictable states from building nuclear weapons is, indisputably, in the common interest.
But the difficult transition from theory to practical application suggests that good intentions are not nearly enough. To be effective agents of meaningful local change, even powers as muscular as the U.S. must be credible.
It isn't now, and that makes it heavy lifting to advance democracy, fight terrorism or control Iran.
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It's Not Our Freedoms That Fuel Arab Anger
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Michael
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2006/200608/20060822.html">http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2006/200608/20060822.html</a><p>---<br>"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."<br />
- Justice Louis Brandeis
...never mind his daddy, do you know who his grand-father was? Do you know how he made the family fortune in WWII??? He is the prodgenie of corporate fascism!! You have to understand business people of militarist weaponry corporations. The middle east isnt just geography, its the very Mother of all Markets, literaly.
Zionisim, both in its original racist and religo-supremicist doctrine of the 1840s, and the subsequent terrorist-style expulsion Arab speaking peoples from Palestine, their farms and their holy places, since arbitraily abrogating the 1948 UN plan, are the Fuel of MUSLIM anger, worldwide! You didnt know this???
Well youre right-on about our side making a joke of democracy. Hamas actually spends 90% of its budget on schools and hospitals, thats why they got elected, in a vote, by the people.
Hal, Ottawa
Hal, Ottawa
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Dave Ruston
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Michael
Profiteering through human suffering - nothing new here. The game remains the same.