by israelirealities » Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:05 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>the problem is that American citizens are now discovering they are the enemy of their own 'government'<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Eric, i'll take the role of the devil's advocate here, I think americans are for the first time facing what other nations lived with and acquired humility. What I found unique in the USA is a bit familiar from ISrael, when people think that "they found the trick", rather the eternal safeguard against some sort of evil. We call it here "discovering America", in irony. freedom is not something you can secure forever, once you devise a tool, the powers of control will find the bypass, much like the way viruses become always immune and the game goes on forever. If you speak to Italians, for instance, they are much more realistic and down to earth when it comes to politics, knowing the limitations, remembering Mussolini, having the Sicilian mafia, having the vatican..no wonder machiavelli wrote his treatment there. Same everywhere. The Americans will learn, depends how hard a lesson is required, that despite a nice constitution and a lot of money and creative people, the shaddow is always as big as the body creating it. <br>True, the lack of nobility in the USA, which was its greatest asset, now turns against it, everything good will show its downside. But there are no predictions, i think, as to the outcome. <br>However, this is not consolation to those who suffer at the hands of the barbarians. ie Fallujah, and many more people in my region. A news=service here today informed that Rumsfeld, in a private talk with Mofaz, said that bashar assad is the devil...and should be ousted. More suffering coming this way. the funny bit of news was that Mofaz tried to speak in favor of Assad, placing him in proportions saying perhaps he is not that bad. I think Israel is now a little concerned with the independent zeal, coming from the administration, to "change the regimes" all over.<br> <br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>