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• 1 Egypt - another US disaster. // Feb 3, 2011 at 6:31 am

  As the United States continues the inevitable decline from its position as leader of the economic world, it continues to be haunted by more than 50 years of disasters due to inept political and diplomatic decision-making.

  In efforts to maintain its domination and control of the world, it has consistently supported and financed corrupt regimes and dictators in the name of world security and in ‘defense of democracy’.

  There is nothing democratic about supporting a dictatorship!

  Its financial and military support of a succession of corrupt and oppressive dictators has never been about democracy and freedom for people of the world but has only ever been about world domination, control and manipulation by the USA.

  The USA can never justify its support for the oppressive Shah of Persia, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, President Diem in South Vietnam, the Taliban in Afghanistan, Ferdinand Marcos in the Phillipines and corrupt regimes in South America and South Africa, in the name of freedom.

  Now with Egypt and its support for the repressive regime of Hosni Mubarak, the USA is again reaping the results of its policies.

  Eventually, the people determine that they can no longer tolerate the injustice and in desperation find the strength to rise up and overthrow their oppressors.

  Inevitably, they remember that the main reason for their continuing miserable lives in enforced poverty and misery and subject to cruel torturous secret police, was due to the support provided by the USA.

  Is it any wonder that these people get to dislike or despise the USA with the more radical in the community developing a hatred and a desire for revenge?

  The insular, isolated and largely ignorant USA then wonders – ‘why?’

• 2 Tom Courtney // Mar 19, 2011 at 3:59 pm

  Colonel Gaddafi is no friend of mine.

  He is a demented, paranoid, brutal, dictator, which puts him in the same league as many other ‘world leaders’, starting with his now departed neighbour, Hosni Mubarak. Some aren’t dictators in the purest sense, but in reality, their supposed ‘governments’ are fronts for dictatorships.

  However, I have a problem with the US & the UN becoming involved in the civil uprising in Libya.

  Why was the USA working hell bent (covertly behind the scenes) with the UN and NATO to prevent Gaddafi from ‘maintaining peace and order’ when they didn’t lift a finger against Idi Amin, Pol Pot, The Shah of Persia, Hosni Mubarak, the present army regime in Burma and a whole string of Middle East, African, South American and Asian dictators and oppressors? Isn’t the poverty, starvation, repression and oppression of millions in North Korea at least as bad?

  The answer is simple. We know that the US can’t win a war let alone a battle. The North Koreans and the Chinese belted them. The North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese peasants belted them. Even the Somalis belted them using sticks and stones. They will eventually crawl away from Afghanistan with their tail between their legs and having shown their military might against a weak and underpowered Iraq and in the process having slaughtered thousands of civilians and having destroyed the country’s infrastructure.

  It was the USA which supplied the arms to Saddam Hussein and supported him when he was massacring the Kurds and killing and torturing his own people. Why? Because he was an ally.

  It was the USA which supplied the arms to the Taliban and supported them with intelligence. Why? Because the Taliban were fighting the Russians.

  The USA doesn’t care how corrupt or cruel the leaders are or how oppressed the people are, if the leader(s) support the US and are of use to the USA – preferably have oil like Iran, Iraq & Saudi Arabia.

  The really interesting time will be if there is a major uprising in China. The Chinese government would be forced to put down the uprising using arms. What will the USA do then? Woul;d that be maintaining peace and order or would that be oppressing the will of the people?

  Obviously, the US doesn’t think that China’s brutal repression and oppression in Tibet is worth worrying about. There is no oil, there is no strategic importance, small and largely voiceless people, so why worry about them? No use to the USA! Not worth getting involved!

  Even more interesting will be the reaction of the citizens of the USA as they become a second class country behind China, weighted down with massive debt, falling production due to their second rate products, sustained levels of high unemployment, increasing lack of social services etc..

  Already there is unrest with public servant protesting about cuts to entitlements due to the parlous state of finances of governments in the USA and the Tea Party justifiably stirring emotions about inept and corrupt government.

  Whilst it is not at the army stage just yet, the time for police forces being more heavily engaged in controlling the unrest, is probably less than a few years away.

  As the people of the world become increasingly despairing and rebellious with civil disobedience and civil war, at least Australia will have the calming influence of Bob Brown telling us that having personally avoided the HIV challenge, Climate Change is the next greatest challenge facing the human.

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