I am still denying it. You can’t act as my agent without my consent. You cannot assume consent. You claim that consent of the Iraqi people was there, and yet we both know it was not unanimous consent, so there was no consent of the Iraqi people.
Okay, will open another topic for discussing this.
I have no idea what that flag means. Could you explain?
It was to be the new flag of Iraq. After you make a country into your colony, you give it a colonial flag, no?
A people is not trully subjugated until that time as it is you that get to tell them, what are their symbols.
No. This is just your American exceptionalism.
No, it’s a historical fact. By the way, nice way to ‘refute’ me by simple contradiction.
The British empire and the British economy were already falling apart, along with those of the rest of Europe, by the late 19th century. Starting with the Spanish American war, but really reaching it’s peak during WW1, the United States made all of the existing European governments financially or militarily dependent/subject to itself. During WW2 the United States (which is to say the USG + the media + the Universities, the definers of ‘international public opinion’ and ‘international law’ during the Democratic age - and not coincidentally the origin of the Democratic revolution) finally couped the governments of Europe, and outright conquered the provinces which had remained out of its reach (Eastern Europe, Japan) due to the inability of the previous colonial expansions to overtake them.
Shortly there were problems with this, both Russia and China have remained doggedly defiant of ‘international public opinion’ due to their massive military power, and this is one of the reasons why their regimes have remained (and I think wisely) opposed to ‘freedom of the press’ and other such mob-rule devices by which the intelligentsia of the West conquered the world.
Now this is not to indicate in any way that I consider the US government and its owners to be ‘exceptional’ in any way except position and resources. Like all past empires of serious size, they came about due to a combination of resources, opportunity and the weakness of their neighbors. And like many other past empires, such as the Muslim and Egyptian, they had the advantage of a powerful and spreading ideology which rendered many of the normal forces of human sanity inert against their conquests (though the fact that the US was richer than all of east asia combined, for example, certainly did not hurt). If one were to say that that Greece and the Near East had no independent governments in 323 B.C. (during the height of Alexander’s conquests), one would not be guilty of ‘Macedonian exceptionalism’, one would be reporting reality. The real delusion is that there are such a thing as ‘nation states’, rather than provinces goverend with various degrees of incompetence.
Although I am generally in favor of colonialism, especially in the British case, the United States due to its atheistic Christianity (IE Progressivism/Socialism/Democracy) has done an amazing job of botching what the British had done fairly well at (which is not to say perfectly, for the British themselves were victims of democracy). The fiscal ineptitude alone is disgusting.
Apparently, Edmund Carlyle is opposed to freedom of the press. I think we should give him a taste of his own medicine and ban him from the site.
Apparently, Edmund Carlyle is opposed to freedom of the press. I think we should give him a taste of his own medicine and ban him from the site.
I am opposed to progressive theocracy disguised as ‘freedom’; and what’s more the media and university are not ‘free’ or ‘private’ in any meaningful sense of the word, they are government agencies; more precisely they own and direct government agencies*.* Censorship of political rabble-rousing in the so-called ‘free press’ in a democratic state is no more than a tonic against civil war.
This simply isn’t true. The great empires of the past, for the most part, lacked plentiful natural endowments, and were geographically located near powerful rivals (Rome-Carthage, Macedonia-Persia, U.K-France, Japan-Russia, ect). Prosperity is never the result of plentiful natural endowments or geographical isolation. Privilege doesn’t create wealth.
Indeed, the press and our school systems are not by any means free; there is enormous suppression of anti-“progressive” positions. But all this means is that America, like China, is void of actual free speech (which they both desperately need). There is an absolutely hilarious HBO documentary on “free speech;” I think it’s called, “shouting fire.”