[quote]Varqanir wrote:
FightinIrish26 wrote:
Varqanir wrote:
We will continue doing what we are doing, to our peril, surely. There is no alternative that does not involve great austerity and sacrifice, which Americans hate more than they hate the French.
Petroleum supplies will become scarcer, and thus more expensive, and “blood for oil” will start sounding more and more like a fair trade.
Whose blood will it be? Yours? I think not.
As long as its you that has to tell the mothers that, after their sons corpses lie in fields of black gold. That’s what I call freedom, eh?
No, it won’t be, if I can help it. It almost might have been, though. I got out of the Army a few years before the first invasion of Iraq, and a lot of my friends were mobilized. Could have been me.
I doubt it will be you, either. But I can’t make any promises about your sons, brothers, cousins, etc. Nor mine.
Just to clarify, I don’t think this current state of affairs is a good thing, Irish, any more than I assume you do. I am just stating things as I see they are, and as I predict they will continue. If you can see a feasible way out of this situation, please share it with me. Better yet, share it with the Department of Energy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
True, I don’t live in the United States anymore, so perhaps it can be said that I have relinquished my right to criticize its actions, but for the record, I love and have always loved America. If I did not, I never would have volunteered to defend her many years ago. At that time, there was a real perceived threat to the nation, and real enemies with nuclear weapons that we were up against.
Today, however, I do not think that I would volunteer to defend the gluttonous standard of living of the only remaining Superpower, nor encourage anyone else to do so. I would bite my tongue before criticizing anyone in the military: my hat is off to the brave men and women who are out there now risking their lives, and I pray they come back alive. I only hope they realize before it’s over just what it is they are fighting &mdash and dying &mdash for.
It ain’t freedom.[/quote]
You have every right to criticize, of course. I jumped to a conclusion after reading your post- it didn’t seem that you minded that this scenario would happen. Apologies.
But I do not think we will war for oil so blatantly. Call it my own anti-corporate agenda, but I think this war is about as blatant as one can possibly get in trying to have a prescence where the oil fields are. However, it is still shrouded and masked by the “Democracy for the poor Iraqis” rhetoric that the administration spews every day; people are finally begining to see through that. I hope.