Comments on: Now what?

By: Truth B Told

Truth B Told — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:12:49 +0000

#146 linda on 01.10.09 at 9:18 pm

FYI there was a study published by impeccable researchers about 2 decades ago that stated wars [major ones] breakout by accident not design. It went on to point out that one of the conditions to a major war is that they are preceded by a significant arms build up.
Hence if our current economic problems are in part alleviated by significant investment in munitions and hardware of war, then it is almost a foregone conclusion!
It is not whether the Western Leaders “know when and when not to participate” it is more a question of under what circumstances will the jeopardy be tolerated, and what circumstances will cause an automatic line to be drawn in the sand with immediate retaliation guaranteed!
WW2 brought on horrendous out cries about genocide and enslavement and resulted in over 6 million deaths. Yet Pol Pot and his “Black Pajamas” allegedly executed 10 million Cambodians with very minimal notice from the rest of the World. Neither instance was in any way closely associated with petroleum or energy resources.
War(s) have been described as a means of population control where other means have failed or not been applied, ie. crop failure, disease, etc. Until Homo Sapien gets with the mind set to live with in the boundaries of sustainability, expect that what you have seen is what you will get.

By: linda

linda — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:18:37 +0000

Thanks Bill and Truth Be Told. I watch the world in three areas- oil/resources, arms manufacture and sales and the money markets, make that four- human blood,sweat and tears. And the politics and policies that affect those areas most profoundly seem to be right-leaning. GWB was still rewriting his history during his speech to the Troops in Virginia, at Thanksgiving. Same story right to the end. Bravo. And Truth, I wonder if things in the rest of the world would have been different regarding client and welfare states if America had known when to go to war and when to stay out of it. Men need to base that decision on a different set of criteria than what’s been used. A few would, but I believe those at the very top are bought and paid for. Do you? I like Got Rope’s theories on the Fed’s re breaking the law (and education). Maybe I connect too many things together but I can’t seem to help it.

By: Truth B Told

Truth B Told — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:14:54 +0000

#144 Bill-Muskoka (Not Anymore) on 01.10.09 at 11:11 am

Additionally, Hamas does not have any money, and all such arms and munitions are DONATIONS FROM OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES! Hamas/Palestinians do not have an economy/industry etc. and are strickly a total welfare case. Now if outlawing the manufacture of arms and munitions was even a practical suggestion it would have been done long ago. Making something illegal does not stop it, but does raise the prices paid and the profits generated. Until there is a total occupation of all of the Arab countries there will always be contraband smuggling, and even then it will continue. Better to abandon those areas, and blockade all oil exports. That is the source of the cash and the ticket to the arms purchases. Even that would be very difficult to enforce in this multi-regionally aligned World.
As far as Canada is concerned, it is none of our business and we should KTFU!