Dying Iraq War Veteran reads "Last Letter" to Bush

[zboy1]

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[abcdavid01]

Yeesh, that birth defect one is grisly. I say that having been to a number of medical museums with brains in jars and such. Still pretty grisly.

A friend sent me a link to the story and here's what I wrote back:

Bah, there's no such thing as international law. Any systems theorist worth his salt will tell you that international relations exist in a state of anarchy. Not that I support the Iraq War by any means. Mainly because I don't support democracy. Sometimes an authoritarian is needed to keep the proles in line. In fact, that's probably most of the time. But that guy is, like anyone in trauma, simply over dramatic. It's not the French Revolution. Nobody will care about this letter come tomorrow. Zeit without geist, my friend.

http://www.amren.com/features/2013/03/i ... n-america/

"There may be no better place or time to meditate on the defects of democracy than the United States in 2013. What an absurd figure we cut in the world, as we try to impose on Afghans and Iraqis a form of government utterly alien to them, while our own rulers lurch from crisis to failure back to crisis."

[zboy1]

Yeesh, that birth defect one is grisly. I say that having been to a number of medical museums with brains in jars and such. Still pretty grisly.

A friend sent me a link to the story and here's what I wrote back:

Bah, there's no such thing as international law. Any systems theorist worth his salt will tell you that international relations exist in a state of anarchy. Not that I support the Iraq War by any means. Mainly because I don't support democracy. Sometimes an authoritarian is needed to keep the proles in line. In fact, that's probably most of the time. But that guy is, like anyone in trauma, simply over dramatic. It's not the French Revolution. Nobody will care about this letter come tomorrow. Zeit without geist, my friend.

http://www.amren.com/features/2013/03/i ... n-america/

"There may be no better place or time to meditate on the defects of democracy than the United States in 2013. What an absurd figure we cut in the world, as we try to impose on Afghans and Iraqis a form of government utterly alien to them, while our own rulers lurch from crisis to failure back to crisis."

Exactly. Why are we trying to impose "democracy" in a foreign country when our own constitutional republic is in crisis? Doesn't make much sense....