I gotta come to Allan’s aid here. The Clinton bombing of Iraq and Yugoslavia was horrific and most of us didn’t notice because we were too busy watching our Cisco stock climb. We were all gonna be millionaires! The current Iraq occupation is bad for a whole host of reasons and has only recently surpassed the Clintonian death toll in Iraq from the sanctions and bombing. But we need to look beneath the partisan game that we have been tricked into playing and start asking the deeper questions, like — should we be dropping bombs on these countries? Who is profiting as a result of this activity? Should we be occupying other countries and attempting to “westernize” them? Is it fair for transnational corporations to use our military and private contractors like Blackwater as their Pinkerton men to rough up the locals as they extract resources from other nations? What kind of government do we want? Who are we as a people? What kind of country do we want to be?
Until we start honestly discussing those kinds of things we are just gonna get more of the same. Don’t count on either one of these guys to change much. That said I will still probably vote for Obama but if my friends vote for McCain I won’t be mad at them or try to convince them not to.
