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I dunno, guys. Fenton I know doesn't bitch about Obama just for partisan reasons--TN I'm not so sure. But either way, we are at war with people who want to blow us up and no, I don't believe that pulling out of the M.E. is going to appease them at this point. I'm glad we're "all up in Latin America" because it is the stepladder into the U.S. and everyone who hates us has tried establishing something there. So good for us.
I failed to see the inflection point moving from Bush II to Obama. Hell, Geitner, Summers, Paulson, Goldman Sachs; everyone came along for the ride, and then no real constraints were put on Wall Street so we're most likely going to have another economic meltdown at some point until we actually change something besides swapping out parties (as if we really have two distinct parties) and/or personalities. Obama's been a drone happy muthfuggah and a great deal of our economic situation and debt has to do with us wanting to rule the planet militarily. What is it, a $1T dollar or so military budget? How many military bases and installations across the globe? Obama sure didn’t do anything to slow down the surveillance state apparatus at home either. Neoliberalism and neo-conservatism all wind up in the same place to my eye, with “the people” on the pavement and a heel on our collective adam’s apple. And really now, if you’re going to tell us we need a permit to protest I rather think ya don’t quite grasp the concept of protest, but the system knows a backlash is coming at some point, and I don't much mind that.
Furthermore I must agree with TN on this whole matter of “exceptionalism”; smacks of entitlement. To the resources of others. To the markets of others. To decide the governments of others. To intervene. To hack and then bitch about hackers. To strike preemptively. To bomb the living fuck out of civilians. Once again, when we allow concentrated corporate wealth and power to take over the media/information, the political system, the economic system, and our collective perceptual reality, at some point, it should dawn on us all that they need us fearful, anxious, discombobulated, divided and incoherent.
As for Latin America, we've always been all up in their shit. Almost all of the intervening we've done post WWII is to kill off social movements of citizens, and often those movements were about poverty, equality, and feudalistic conditions of the unsubstantial people. We do not trot around the globe to advance liberty and/or freedom, we do it to advance american style capitalism and military hegemony.
And lo and behold, folks resist. We should all take a page from their book with our exceptional selves.