re: #77 karmic_inquisitor

As I said on the previous thread the US can no longer afford to be in the business of trying to liberate people around the world.

We will do what the French do - pay lip service to high minded ideals and then cut deals with dictators. Wives of the dictators go on shopping sprees in Paris with their blood stained Euros and compete for luxury hotel rooms with the oil princes and their shopping entourages.

As long as we can congratulate each other on our latest declaration of resolve regarding some pathetic oppressed group somewhere while we wait on our shrimp cocktails to be served to us at the latest policy conference then everything will be fine.

Well, it IS what the majority of Americans want.