America and global alliances

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Feb 20, 2007 at 12:44

Dear AS , thanks again for your fine comment !

> the sad part is that its not America. its 1 guy with say 5-6 ppl around him. and they clearly r not the best men.

In politics (be it a democracy or tyranny) it is not the best men that rule. It is the most powerful. And these two types usually don't overlap.

> democracy is a process of 'election'. i am not sure why 'election' would always be better than some form of 'selection'. at least at the moment, the so called democracies of the west and in India too have managed to elect the worst jokers who are proving to be miserable to the challenges.

I absolutely agree. One can remark that alas the notion of "democracy" has largely been devaluated and degenerated to serve as a decent cloak for plenty of indecent interests. Well , democracy can serve as a perefect fraud too. Germany once upon a time got such "a democracy" as a fraudulent way to disarm and down her. In 1918 the victors ( first and foremost Woodrow Wilson ) made her believe the moment the Kaiser goes just peace and equality would be assured . No one was of course ready to fulfill the vain promises and the effect was the unheard-of hatred of this fraudulent democracy.

> on america's relation with saudi arabia. am completely at lost. it's amazing how the saudis have the american establishment in their clutches. and its not even the money they pay. i mean all of mid east economy is just about equal to Germany"s!! even Saddam could hv paid those kind of bribes. he was pro business and secular with a christian PM. and this joker general from pakistan. he opens his mouth and only lies come out. he has been taking america and england for a ride since 9/11.

So what's in your opinion behind that Saui-infatuation if not Saudi billions? Just the admiration for Roosevelt and his friendship with ibn Saud or what ?

> the west should realize their only only allies as of now are muslim nations!! everyone else has serious problems with their actions.

The irony of fate is though that America is nowhere so much hated as in these Muslim nations she does so much to support and extoll importing the venom of Islam which will eventually kill her if it continues.

> stretching their military far n wide with their land open to muslim immigration, reminds me of ancient Persia. with its military stretching from Greece to central asia, it fell in one blow to arab thugs!! and within 15 years it was islamized!

I am just reading a book about that "The Arab conquest of Persia" by A.I. Kolesnikov. What an incredible story ! Which of those proud kings of kings before Yezdigert III would have ever believed if someone had prophecied that once their empire would fall victim to those camel-driving gangsters from the deserts of Arabia ? ... Well, will a prophecy seem too incredible that those turban-bearing will once rule over America and the shahada will replace "the Star Spangled Banner" ?

As to the Persians , the only true Persians are those Parsees that fled to India and have retained their Zoroastrian traditions and beliefs. The rest are Arab bastards.

> America should roll back its military and STOP immigration. and deal with latin american countries including chavez for oil. even if Chavez yells at american capitalism, he is still better than killer islamists.

Sorry for being too cynical , but the only way to do that would be by bribing the American administration to change its ways. Otherwise it will hardly work. But who is so rich as to outbid the Saudi billions ?

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