Reply #17: After reading Chalmers Johnson

[Donna Zen]

I now better understand several things that Wes Clark has said in the past. He said that currently our country's foreign policy is being shaped by the military. Clark called that dangerous. And Clark has said the it is the strategic framework that must be changed, because that is driving this military build-up and basing that will lead to the "Long War" something that he doesn't agree with.

I don't know if I dreamed it, but I do believe that I've heard him say that we must reduce the number of our bases. That we wouldn't want China to park a naval armada off of our coast, so why would any other country be happy with facing our long guns.

General, that's right, General Clark understands very well our dangerous course on our road to empire. He has spoken on more than one occasion about the history of lost democracies. He gets it.

This is all so distressing. I see a host of candidates who either don't understand the nature of the strategic framework, or don't want to see it because they are powerless to effect any change. Oh, and then there is our imperial mistress of global corporations vying for our votes by handing out monogrammed plastic water bottles to the masses. (God save me from this crazy shit!)

Okay...now we can return to watching the MSM 08 horse race that is all sound and fury solving nothing. The MSM=traitors, simpletons and charlatans.