The US has made $$$ from the gulf, cos kuwait it paying it all back... Who do you think is going to pay back THIS war? um, there are gonna be alot of oil field under US control... (are you thinking what i'm thinking)
Imperialism needn't be plain outright as it once was with the freign flag flying high over someone else's homeland.. just a freindly face for the cameras, and iron fist for the locals, and a willingness to deal with large checks with out asking questions that have morals/ scruples...
Sly: I'm from Lincoln (ENGLAND, you bastid 'mericans stole OUR NAMES... j/k, LOL), I'm studying at Leicester.. I'm originally born in libya (benghazi), and yes i was there on the ground in 1986 when we were bombed by Thatcher and Reagan... but i've grown up british (more scotish than english mind you, we left libya in 1988)...
Basically I was only 3years old during the raid, but it's a scary memory, and i when i got older i found out the places that were bombed (including the French embassy :D , the Us couldn't deny that one), and a hospital for those with severe learning difficulties my dad knew, and i think worked in.. which is something that was never reported over here... but what can you but try to correct the up and comming mistakes...
I've also sifted through alot of Arabic/ Isreali/ White supremist/ leftist/ right wing propaganda... and find it really intresting that the tactics are the same... I'm trying to get a copy of Noam Chomsky's book at the mo..
But on the whole I'm a mild pacafist, who agrees with war under EXTREME conditions...