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Originally Posted by myrrh
This is a perfect example of how US politics work, and why I say "US Democracy" as if it is it's own ideology:
"The rocket barrage by Hamas that preceded Israel's air strikes began with the unraveling of a cease-fire, brokered by Egypt, that had been in place since June. Although Hamas said the truce expired on Dec. 19, it began firing rockets earlier, in response to an Israeli raid on Nov. 5 aimed at stopping Palestinians from tunneling under the boundary fence. Hamas needed a truce, but one on more favorable terms than what had applied in the preceding six months. During that time, Israel had largely stopped military attacks in Gaza but kept in place a crippling economic siege as part of a Bush Administration–backed campaign to pressure the Palestinian civilian population to overthrow the Hamas government it had elected in 2006."
That is from Time. |
The problem I have is that, from past conversations, you want to argue for a theocracy. Its not valid to say democracy and economic sanctions go hand in hand. Nor is it valid to say that sharia law is the only answer simply because the world's current super power is internally democratic and externally imperialistic.
In the age of torture and gitmo, pinochet, the shah, millions dead by crippling sanctions, I don't think a lot of americans can still hold the pretense that their government treats their own the same as they treat the outside world (Although lately its been converging to a general practice of despotism at home *and* abroad)
So if even your garden variety average joe the plumber american can understand that the exported product of US DEMOCRACY (trademark, copywrite halliburtan, all rights resesrved) is not recognizable to the democracy they were taught in civics class, then you shouldn't be able to say, See? democracy sucks. lets all go see what the imam has to say about monetary policy and civil liberties.