03.19.03
A village in Texas has lost their idiot
It seems I'm not the only one in Diaryland with War on their minds today. Understandibly.
I think the American President is not fighting a war for oil, for human rights, or for terrorism. I think he is fighting to maintain First world dominance over the Third World. Iraq is a potentially extremely powerful nation. As a member of OPEC (Oil and Petrolum Exporting Countries), they hold a lot of power over the heads of the First World. Capatilists don't like this. People accustomed to the way the world works right now don't like this. There's an amazing pressure put on OPEC countries to leave the organization. If you ravage a country with war, if you make a small country fight the superpower they will lose. And then they'll spend the next few decades attempting to rebuild their economy with (conveinetly) the money you've graciously decided to laon them. That's what this looming war is about. Dominance.
If France refused to join because they felt that the war was humanly injust, I would applaud them. The same goes for Canada. But France is owed billions of dollars by the Iraqi government for the neucular weapons France sold them years ago. In times of war, all debts are eliminated. Plain and simple, if there's a war, France won't get their money. And Canada, Jean Chretien is an old fool. He may have been a good Prime Minister for his first two terms. But he's a school yard bully that refuses to leave. He's beome a bumbling idiot representing a country that doesn't support him. Liberals and Republicans have never had a great relationship, but the combination of a cowboy and a self-proclaimed "boy from the country" has been disasterous. What will happen to our relationship with the US when they go and we don't? How long will this anti-war resolution of Chretien's actually hold? The US likes to buy trees and maybe eventually some water from us. We don't have the power, or the money, to even decide the price of these commodities. And if they don't like what we have to offer, the won't wait two seconds to go to a country that will give them exactly what they want. Plain and simple, as much as we may claim independence from them, our economy needs the US.
I'm not advocating war here, the problem is that there is no right or wrong answer. Iraqi's have the right to be liberated from their dictatorship. But is killing thousands of them the way to go about it?
International Relations are constructed by men. In times of war, women's presence on the international spectrum practically dissapears. Think about your national government. How many women are there in positions dealing directly with this "War on Terrorism"? One? Two? Maybe. And how much media coverage do they get? The talking heads on your national (or local) newsstation, how many women anchors? Very few.
So do I support Bush? No. Do I support Chretien? More-so than Bush. Do I support war? Not at all. Maybe it's the influence from my country full of fence-sitters, or brokerage parties, but I don't have an answer. I don't know what the solution is. And I don't know what to believe.
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