Comments on: Where You Goin’? http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/05/05/where-you-goin/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:15:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: TGGP http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/05/05/where-you-goin/#comment-2433 TGGP Wed, 07 May 2008 02:18:18 +0000 http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/05/05/where-you-goin/#comment-2433 If you change "Iraq" into "Afghanistan" then <a href="http://amnation.com/vfr/archives/010018.html" rel="nofollow">Obama, Lawrence Auster</a> and I all agree on something! If you change “Iraq” into “Afghanistan” then Obama, Lawrence Auster and I all agree on something!

]]> By: Keith Preston http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/05/05/where-you-goin/#comment-2430 Keith Preston Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:15 +0000 http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/05/05/where-you-goin/#comment-2430 While I certainly sympathize with people of Iraq and the unnecessary damage that has been inflicted on them by 17 years of US/UN aggression against innocent civilians, I'm not so sure I'd want the US to leave at this point. I kind of like having the imperial guard bogged down in a colonial war that's draining the empire's treasury. More importantly, I'd like for the resistance movements in Latin America-Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, etc.-to have a chance for survival. I'd be concerned if the troops came home the Neocons/Neolibs would turn their guns on the southern hemisphere. While I certainly sympathize with people of Iraq and the unnecessary damage that has been inflicted on them by 17 years of US/UN aggression against innocent civilians, I’m not so sure I’d want the US to leave at this point. I kind of like having the imperial guard bogged down in a colonial war that’s draining the empire’s treasury. More importantly, I’d like for the resistance movements in Latin America-Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, etc.-to have a chance for survival. I’d be concerned if the troops came home the Neocons/Neolibs would turn their guns on the southern hemisphere.

]]> By: Kevin Carson http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/05/05/where-you-goin/#comment-2416 Kevin Carson Tue, 06 May 2008 18:17:15 +0000 http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/05/05/where-you-goin/#comment-2416 I've seen neoconservatives propose the same thing: abandon responsibility for directly governing Iraq, and leave it to its own devices, but keep a regional strike force on the ground that can obliterate any government that engages in disapproved behavior. IMO the whole point of withdrawal is that the U.S. has no right and no business policing the region, determining what behavior is "permitted" on the other side of the world, or being there at all. I’ve seen neoconservatives propose the same thing: abandon responsibility for directly governing Iraq, and leave it to its own devices, but keep a regional strike force on the ground that can obliterate any government that engages in disapproved behavior.

IMO the whole point of withdrawal is that the U.S. has no right and no business policing the region, determining what behavior is “permitted” on the other side of the world, or being there at all.

]]> By: Nell http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/05/05/where-you-goin/#comment-2411 Nell Tue, 06 May 2008 14:16:50 +0000 http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/05/05/where-you-goin/#comment-2411 I'm having a hard time mustering the energy to find out, so wonder if the answer's clear from the position papers you've already read: What, if anything, does Obama say about the giant moated base that is the U.S. "embassy", and about the other huge bases (Balad, and I forget the two or three others right now)? I’m having a hard time mustering the energy to find out, so wonder if the answer’s clear from the position papers you’ve already read: What, if anything, does Obama say about the giant moated base that is the U.S. “embassy”, and about the other huge bases (Balad, and I forget the two or three others right now)?

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