Surprise Visits to Baghdad

Surprise visits to Baghdad by Western political and high military figures are nothing but another indication that this poor country is under occupation. Why else you would go to Green Zone without notice!! I don't think even an intelligent Red State voter is buying the spin that Bush boys and high powered media is putting on the military occupation of Iraq.

US AND THEM

Here is what one of the most influential philosophical, political, and economical gurus of modern "American Rational Capitalism", Ayn Rand had said regarding Arab-Israelis conflict:

"Rand supported Israel during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, which she saw as an attack on a government that supported individual rights: "The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it's the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are."

I didn't think fighting occupation meant you are a savage!!!! This is what the world is facing today -- a much conflicted ideology. I guess Iraqi's are also savages because they want to get rid of the occupiers, even they think they are benevolent.

Those orgies and wild "collectives" parties in New York in 40's-50's-60's must have not allowed her to fully "rationalize" her opinions.

One can see the same disconnect with BUSH's domestic and foreign policies now -- isn't it just adorable. The moral imperative of we are great and rest are either "savages" or "primitive" will be our undoing. May be its time to reconfigure this work in progress to bring in the Moral part of the lase afar Capitalism ideology out more.

Ms. Rand and her swinger life style couldn't produce any more than what she has. The sad part is that large number of so called great minds are following her half baked mind set.

Developing world needs:

- Free Press
- Organic (local) marker economy based on indigenous values and cultures
- Free Health Care
- Individual freedom, even if it does not suite the west
- West getting its cock out of their business in the name of philanthropy, nation building, aide of any kind, fighting poverty, supporting freedom fighters, helping those poor inferior soles so Jeusis will love me, ........................

Lets not forget those good old days of before 9/11 when we were intolerant of one another in a relatively good way. Boy have we the few and proud changed since that day. Those days of innocents when we would separate ourselves from the rest are gone. We have now grown as a nation and have faced the reality of being one of many. Our moral imperatives were left out to dry with Enemy Combatant", Guantanamo Bay detentions, Extraordinary Renditions, and detention without charges. We now are suspicious of way too many things and people and willing to let someone else take care of us.

Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, and Watergate seem like child play these days. Assassination of Kennedy feels more like walk in the park. Boy the old glory is now can really be called "old and mature glory".

This is not all bad or good, its just the way it is. We as the people of this planet (its not American any more) now have to show if we are cut out for this challenge. Our destinies are very much tied together now. We can't sit back hear and watch what happens on the other side of the pond. Not much of the pond is left to isolate and insulate us.