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<blockquote data-quote="sanzar" data-source="post: 89303"><p>classic french view point eh?</p><p></p><p>I love how he "doesn't care about their lives" first of all, if it were for oil why are we still paying $2.50-3.10 a gallon? Secondly, thats their job, to protect this country, and let me see here if im not mistaken i believe Bush has the power to send the military into conflict if he sees fit, thats what they get paid for. Third, it wasnt just Bush who sent them over, look at the whole congress, senate, house of representatives.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>It definately is Bush's job to'protect his country', the defining point however, is how he goes about it. You see there is a major difference between offensive and defensive security strategies. Bush and the neo-conservatives (always thought this was a funny contradiction in terms, there's nothing 'conservative' about the current administration) have what's called an 'offensive realist' approach to security and foreign policy, which means they see the best way to achieve security as being by seeking global hegemony. In order to gain this they look for 'monsters' overseas that can be sufficiently hated by the public to get their mind off the fact that in order to achieve this massive military control they also have to begin taking away domestic social security systems and civil freedoms.</p><p></p><p>In any case, it doesn't seem to be working... Iraq is a mess and Bush seems to have copped a hammering in the mid terms! Thank god the US is still reasonably democratic (I say 'reasonably, because of the 2001 election).</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="sanzar, post: 89303"] classic french view point eh? I love how he "doesn't care about their lives" first of all, if it were for oil why are we still paying $2.50-3.10 a gallon? Secondly, thats their job, to protect this country, and let me see here if im not mistaken i believe Bush has the power to send the military into conflict if he sees fit, thats what they get paid for. Third, it wasnt just Bush who sent them over, look at the whole congress, senate, house of representatives. [/b][/quote] It definately is Bush's job to'protect his country', the defining point however, is how he goes about it. You see there is a major difference between offensive and defensive security strategies. Bush and the neo-conservatives (always thought this was a funny contradiction in terms, there's nothing 'conservative' about the current administration) have what's called an 'offensive realist' approach to security and foreign policy, which means they see the best way to achieve security as being by seeking global hegemony. In order to gain this they look for 'monsters' overseas that can be sufficiently hated by the public to get their mind off the fact that in order to achieve this massive military control they also have to begin taking away domestic social security systems and civil freedoms. In any case, it doesn't seem to be working... Iraq is a mess and Bush seems to have copped a hammering in the mid terms! Thank god the US is still reasonably democratic (I say 'reasonably, because of the 2001 election). [/QUOTE]
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