My point isn't that *you* don't get it - it's that while many govts play dirty pool, ours has the world's greatest disjunction between our constantly stated ideals and the reality of the kinds of govts we set up worldwide in order to benefit a corporate economy. No other people on earth are as loud about being champions of freedom - and yet no other govt on earth spends close to what we do on military aid to repressive foreign regimes. We don't do this *hesitatntly* or in spite of our ideals - we do it as a central principle of our foreign policy. I think any discussion of what's going on in Egypt has to talk honestly about what the brave people there are up against - it's not just a homegrown dictator, but hundreds of billions of dollars in secret police and army funding from the biggest funder of such things around. As Americans, we have an obligation to go beyond being inspired or hopeful to telling our govt to stop this shady nonsense.
...and of course, you can call me 'thrower-of-shit' anytime and I'll still know you're awesome :P
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Date: 2011-01-29 12:47 pm (UTC)My point isn't that *you* don't get it - it's that while
many govts play dirty pool, ours has the world's greatest disjunction between our constantly stated ideals and the reality of the kinds of govts we set up worldwide in order to benefit a corporate economy. No other people on earth are as loud about being champions of freedom - and yet no other govt on earth spends close to what we do on military aid to repressive foreign regimes. We don't do this *hesitatntly* or in spite of our ideals - we do it as a central principle of our foreign policy. I think any discussion of what's going on in Egypt has to talk honestly about what the brave people there are up against - it's not just a homegrown dictator, but hundreds of billions of dollars in secret police and army funding from the biggest funder of such things around. As Americans, we have an obligation to go beyond being inspired or hopeful to telling our govt to stop this shady nonsense.
...and of course, you can call me 'thrower-of-shit' anytime and I'll still know you're awesome :P