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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Picture of the Day - 2







Nepal.

6 Comments:

  • It's nice to see Bush-style democracy being spread across the globe...duck!!!

    By Blogger Reality-Based Educator, at 1:36 PM  

  • We're not invading them, are we?

    We're doing even less for these people than for the people af Darfur. Their king must be letting us have his resources.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 2:26 PM  

  • I think we're ignoring them Mike. The only oil they have is hash oil. Not worth it to them to be worrying about the oppressed populations of resource poor nations.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:38 PM  

  • And, they're not useful militarily and we aren't trying to roll back the Russian eastern bloc. We're using other nations in the region to counterbalance China. Just shows how much it's rhetoric, eh?

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 5:17 PM  

  • I've never understood why when Bush apologists show up on TV and claim we had to invade Iraq because Saddam was such a muderous thug who slaughtered his own people that nobody slams that talking point down their throats by listing all the other countries with murderous dictator thugs and human rights violations that we either coddle, ally ourselves with or ignore.

    Wouldn't be fun to list them all?

    I think you already started, Mike, by naming Nepal and Darfur. After this week's Hu visit, I suppose we should add China. For all the rhetoric out of the right on Cuba, I notice that Fidel Castro is going to die peacefully in his bed after 45+ years running Cuba. Then there's Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, Yemen, etc. in the Middle East.

    How many other countries with human rights problems do we either ignore, ally ourselves with or prop up?

    So right you are about it all being rhetoric, Mike. Unfortunately so many people believed the bullshit rhetoric. Hell, just as little ago as Bush's 2005 SoTU address, the TV talking heads and pundits were still stroking the administration over its "principled world-wide democracy campaign."

    Of course, Iraq and too a lesser extent Afghanistan have taken care of that campaign for most people.

    By Blogger Reality-Based Educator, at 5:39 PM  

  • The Congo, Zimbabwe, Kazahistan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Saudi, Myanmar, Pakistan....

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 6:07 PM  

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