We need to start making glass etchings and stone carvings stating: "It really was the 45th President," so that future generations don't have to debate what finally caused the American iteration of empire to fatally collapse.
Must we stop and convince "observer" that not a single taxpayer dime will be spent on wind power? Is this the standard? I suppose the Manhattan Project was funded by the Rockefellers? How about if "observer" explains how taxpayers won't have to pay a dime to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain or Hanford or how taxpayers in Japan will never have to spend a dime on Fukishima cleanup? May I assume "nuclear is what is needed" is in jest?
That was a very thought provoking post. The U.S. government appears incapable of breaking out of any of its old established attitudes towards Latin America. The Snowden affair has shown the U.S. to be almost as big of a bully as it ever was. The U.S. continues to treat Latin American sovereignty as an after thought. There has been no evolution in beltway thinking toward Latin America, not even with our supposed brainiac president.
My thought is that many nations in Latin America seem to have a new direction and a new willingness to find a path to prosperity that doesn't involve the U.S. Maybe it is too soon to declare Latin American independence from U.S. imperialism, but it may be closer than anybody inside the beltway realizes. I can't help but believe that 98% of the people inside the beltway are oblivious to anything that has happened in Latin America in the last 15 years. Their attitude is: "So we grounded some president's plane, pass me a doughnut."
We need to start making glass etchings and stone carvings stating: "It really was the 45th President," so that future generations don't have to debate what finally caused the American iteration of empire to fatally collapse.
You might ask your grandchildren to listen to some Woody Guthrie songs on July 4th.
Must we stop and convince "observer" that not a single taxpayer dime will be spent on wind power? Is this the standard? I suppose the Manhattan Project was funded by the Rockefellers? How about if "observer" explains how taxpayers won't have to pay a dime to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain or Hanford or how taxpayers in Japan will never have to spend a dime on Fukishima cleanup? May I assume "nuclear is what is needed" is in jest?
I wish I had more time to fully appreciate this post, but from what I did read it makes really important points that I am dying to hear anywhere.
BTW: is anyone willing to take bets that the unnamed official saying the case for bombing was "no slam dunk" is Joe Biden?
That was a very thought provoking post. The U.S. government appears incapable of breaking out of any of its old established attitudes towards Latin America. The Snowden affair has shown the U.S. to be almost as big of a bully as it ever was. The U.S. continues to treat Latin American sovereignty as an after thought. There has been no evolution in beltway thinking toward Latin America, not even with our supposed brainiac president.
My thought is that many nations in Latin America seem to have a new direction and a new willingness to find a path to prosperity that doesn't involve the U.S. Maybe it is too soon to declare Latin American independence from U.S. imperialism, but it may be closer than anybody inside the beltway realizes. I can't help but believe that 98% of the people inside the beltway are oblivious to anything that has happened in Latin America in the last 15 years. Their attitude is: "So we grounded some president's plane, pass me a doughnut."