by Rex Crosely and Jack Lee
A common assumption: America votes for the best looking guy with the most money that tells the best lies. We are so caught up with the drama of divisive topics that the real issues get swept under a rug. The charade of our political system is merely to distract us while they terrorize people and extract resources all over the world. There is a reason why the USA is the most hated country in the world and its not our freedom, its our ignorance. Rex Crosely
Reply: Rex the first part of your comments is, at least in my opinion, fairly accurate! Voters do tend to vote for the person with the best physical attributes and personality. Since money also buys advertising and voter access, then its reasonable to believe that the person with the most money has a significant advantage.
The second part of your comment is troubling, but it too is not without an element of truth.
“The charade of our political system is merely to distract us while they terrorize people and extract resources all over the world.” R.C.
The assumption here is our government creates false flag events in order to use our power and/or military to take resources from other nations. Let’s analyze that one.
There is no evidence of taking anything by force since WWII. In fact every military event has been under international law, in defense of personal liberties, and national security. Each event cost the US taxpayers dearly…there was no payoff by any alleged Imperialistic effort. What great natural resource was there in South Vietnam? What resource did we claim and keep in Panama or Grenada?
The most glaring example of this leftist view would be the “no blood for oil” rhetoric over our involvement in Iraq. The USA derived virtually nothing from Iraq. There were no lavish oil contracts, no great friendships or strategic bases. We spent several trillion tax dollars and lost thousands of American lives helping to build a better infrastructure for Iraqis and we left.
At the very best for all our efforts…we created a democratic regime that has expanded the rights of individuals in Iraq. This expansion of civil rights may have encouraged other Arab dictatorial regimes to fall, but that is something for history to determine.
It is true that America industry, especially involving mining, oil, and manufacturing, does venture around the world looking for opportunity. However, this is often confused with our military events or foreign policy by the left. What the left calls this exploiting others call progress and growth. I could argue many pages on the difference between exploitation and capitalism, but I must keep it brief. American industry more often provides jobs and economic growth to many impoverished places where only starvation and poverty may have existed before. That’s the bottom line and both sides win when we create customers that can afford American goods for the first time ever.
Why is the United States hated by many countries?
Let’s look at the countries that did or still do, the hating. They all have an agenda and they are generally oppressive totalitarian or radical religious regimes like Iran, North Korea, North Vietnam, Palestine, etc. Most North Koreans were raised from birth to think of America as an aggressive colonial powers that wants to destroy them.
There is quite a bit of anti-American sentiment in Turkey and Syria because they are Islamic states and the US has been cozy with Israel. You can say the same for most Egyptians and many others in the Middle East. We are not liked because we are either a friend of Israel or we are a perceived or a direct threat to their continued existence as a dictatorship (or their religion) and often times they (Islamic terrorists) are a threat to our national security.
The cold war was a war for the hearts and minds of people and we are still on the receiving end for that one. People in many countries were scientifically manipulated by communist rhetoric for decades. It’s reasonable to assume that the monumental propaganda efforts by the old USSR did have an impact in shaping opinions about the US, and that it still does to this day. It certainly had its effect on the minds of leftists within our own country. But, think about what impact that must have had in other nations where contrary opinions are limited by censorship!
Rex, for the most part your politics tells me you are another victim of the cold war. Like so many on the left, you’re constantly taking bits and pieces of truth and misconstruing them with leftwing rhetoric to form something believable, but not necessarily the truth.
What you so often believe is based upon many fallacies and many misunderstandings linked to real events and bolstered with an element of truth. The best lies always have an element of truth in them, don’t they? This is how world class propaganda works and it’s up to the people (when they can) to sort it all out. Unfortunately, most people find it more convenient to believe what they hear and they are not equipped to deal with the complexities behind that rhetoric that points to the real truth.
Your turn.
“There is no evidence of taking anything by force since WWII.”
You wouldn’t call the co-opting of the Iraqi Oil fields by a consortium of Big Oil forceable? How quaint.
Still in all, the rise of Bin Laden and AQ can be traced, in the man’s own words, to the insidious consumerism and cultural corruption perpetrated by the likes of PepsiCo.
We could beat you over the head with it, and you still wouldn’t see it, guzzler that you are.
“There is quite a bit of anti-American sentiment in Turkey and Syria because they are Islamic states and the US has been cozy with Israel. You can say the same for most Egyptians and many others in the Middle East. We are not liked because we are either a friend of Israel or we are a perceived or a direct threat to their continued existence as a dictatorship (or their religion) and often times they (Islamic terrorists) are a threat to our national security.”
Cozy? And will everyone please note the Palestinian Question being mysteriously absent from Jack’s assessment.
“The cold war was a war for the hearts and minds of people and we are still on the receiving end for that one. People in many countries were scientifically manipulated by communist rhetoric for decades. It’s reasonable to assume that the monumental propaganda efforts by the old USSR did have an impact in shaping opinions about the US, and that it still does to this day. It certainly had its effect on the minds of leftists within our own country. But, think about what impact that must have had in other nations where contrary opinions are limited by censorship!”
This says … what? exactly? What on earth does cold war propoganda have to do with the fact that we intervene in Libya, where there is much oil, but not in Sudan, where there is little … and what there is the property of China. You may well hug those blinders tight. But the rest of the planet does not.
Libby: “You wouldn’t call the co-opting of the Iraqi Oil fields by a consortium of Big Oil forceable?”
A lie told oand over is still a lie. America did not co-opt Iraqi oil and big oil companies didn’t co-opt Iraqi oil. Iraq SOLD its oil. They have a product others need and they made a very good deal for Iraq in the process. I posted the story that explained how the deal was made when you made this outrageous claim once before. Short memory or just stubborn adherence to progressive hate America BS?
I wouldn’t say the Germans hate us, but instead of Polish jokes, they have American jokes.
How many Americans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A committee of 5 to 7 to discuss it and at least two $taffers to call in a consultant.
Libby, any thoughts on this: “Iraq wanted to strike a deal with Americas Exxon-Mobil, which would have been great for all concerned. However, three meddling American Senators — John Kerry (D-MA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) –stuck there big meddling noses into the process. Iraq, being desperate for income, gave the deal to China and its China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). Big Government has the full and interesting story, here’s an excerpt:
Its the classic American political tale of self-loathing crafted by the usual suspects. With its government firm and its security at its post-surge best, the Iraqi government needed to quickly bring its oilfields online. It desperately needed the revenues. The summer of 2008 saw oil prices above $100 per barrel and Americans were paying $4 per gallon at the pump.
The best in the business the best in the world is Exxon-Mobil. And the government of Iraq turned to Americas Exxon-Mobil to bring undeveloped and underdeveloped fields online to rejuvenate its own revenue sources and ween itself and its people off of American aid.
But three American Senators would have none of it. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) sent a public letter to the Bush administrations Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, imploring her to derail the Iraqi deal. (See: In China We Trust: Senators Closed Door to US Oil Investment In Iraq.) As the Senate troika stated, It is our fear that this action by the Iraqi government could further deepen political tensions in Iraq and put our service members in even great danger.
You see, these three American Senators insisted that Iraq shall have no revenues until it passed an oil revenue sharing law that met their distant standards. Or at least, Iraq should have certainly had no additional revenue. Their letter was dismissed out of hand in Washington. But in Iraq, the desired consequences of the letter took hold. The Iraqi government became spooked as the reportage of the letter turned, as one would expect, into wrangling and infighting by those seeking to leverage it to their advantage in the hotly contested revenue sharing process.
And there was Big Oil political gamesmanship afoot amid the 2008 presidential elections.
As the author of the above article, Steve Schippert, notes, “Unrestricted Warfare was more than just a passing thought published by two Chinese colonels in the Peoples Liberation Army. It was a strategic response to the American dominance of the Gulf War that has been adopted as grand strategy.”
We have useful idiots in Washington.
Here’s the latest oil deal Libby, no Americans involved:
“The ministry of oil of Iraq signed a contract with the Russian Lukoil Mideast Ltd. & the Korean Samsung, to apply the project of import and build oil collecting system & central processing system for the west Qurna field- second phase.”
Libby…here are the top countries importing oil to the USA in order of volume:
CANADA
SAUDI ARABIA
MEXICO
VENEZUELA
NIGERIA
COLOMBIA
After these countries the amount of importation drops off considerable. Source DOE 2011.