I am naive...
I am naïve and in my naivete, I live or should I say, I live in a world of questioning. The Canadian prime ministers have always held a tremendous amount of power. What they have wanted, they have been able to get. We in Canada have accepted that situation for so long that it goes almost without saying.
Am I so naïve to accept the news coming out of Iraq, from the news reports provided by embedded journalists, whose reports are perhaps echoes of the “party line" propaganda to say the least and lies to be a little more direct. What comes out of the White House is said to keep the American public “on side.” Americans do not want to hear that they are in a war that they can’t win and if the truth were known, they are losing, this very moment. I doubt very much if any true Iraqi welcomes the American presence in Iraq. Peoples of the world have never really liked to have the Americans in any way controlling their affairs.
Yes, foreign countries love to receive American aid, they love to receive American money which so often never gets totally to the people whose needs should be met; monies that end up in the pockets of the powerful and then, into foreign banks, for later use.
Who were the American President's advisors prior to the invasion of Iraq? Why did the invasion really take place? What interests did the U.S. have in Iraq? Now that the Americans are in Iraq, will they also end up in Iran? And, what might any occupation of those counties have to do with China, if anything? These are questions that may be easily answered, but questions that are floating around the world.
I remember a Bosnian saying that if there was oil in Bosnia, the Americans would have been there and the war would have not lasted as long, fewer lives would have been lost, fewer people would have had to become refugees and there would not have been so much devastation of buildings and much less damage to the spirit of the people. It will take another generation to recover from the damages, if ever.
What roles have the Americans played in Africa? What roles can the Americans play there, in the future? What are the needs of the African states? What were the needs of the Americans there during the cold war and how did those needs change at the end of the cold war?
I am naïve, which I admit, but what about the American public?
Am I so naïve to accept the news coming out of Iraq, from the news reports provided by embedded journalists, whose reports are perhaps echoes of the “party line" propaganda to say the least and lies to be a little more direct. What comes out of the White House is said to keep the American public “on side.” Americans do not want to hear that they are in a war that they can’t win and if the truth were known, they are losing, this very moment. I doubt very much if any true Iraqi welcomes the American presence in Iraq. Peoples of the world have never really liked to have the Americans in any way controlling their affairs.
Yes, foreign countries love to receive American aid, they love to receive American money which so often never gets totally to the people whose needs should be met; monies that end up in the pockets of the powerful and then, into foreign banks, for later use.
Who were the American President's advisors prior to the invasion of Iraq? Why did the invasion really take place? What interests did the U.S. have in Iraq? Now that the Americans are in Iraq, will they also end up in Iran? And, what might any occupation of those counties have to do with China, if anything? These are questions that may be easily answered, but questions that are floating around the world.
I remember a Bosnian saying that if there was oil in Bosnia, the Americans would have been there and the war would have not lasted as long, fewer lives would have been lost, fewer people would have had to become refugees and there would not have been so much devastation of buildings and much less damage to the spirit of the people. It will take another generation to recover from the damages, if ever.
What roles have the Americans played in Africa? What roles can the Americans play there, in the future? What are the needs of the African states? What were the needs of the Americans there during the cold war and how did those needs change at the end of the cold war?
I am naïve, which I admit, but what about the American public?
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