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I think I talk enough. I mean, I did start this thread, and we are getting off topic.
My whole point to this thread, which isn't a bush-bashing thread, is to point out the mentality that blair (and yes, bush) has been using - a mentality they continually claim they are NOT using, but then just last week gave a speech on the fact they are doing exactly what they claim not to be doing.
On more than one occasion blair has said 'we are not trying to force western values on a different culture' AND 'we are not trying to change Muslim culture' (yes, I'm paraphrasing here).
Then, at a meeting of his supporters he states blatently 'we are in a battle of cultures, trying to change the Arabic world and force them to accept western ideals and principles'.
Bascially, the irradication of another culture, for the simple reason it's different and doesn't allow itself to be pushed around by big business, special interest groups, and other factors which plague the 'western' culture.
Same with Cuba. I've visited Cuba. Tis a brilliant place to holiday. All over Europe, you can get cheap vaction deals to some of the most beuatiful beaches in the world. Americans would never know this, as their government says its off limits. Anyone who has visited there can tell you how beautiful it is. But, due to 'western ideals' there is this big pissing contest because 'western' companies can't do business in a 'western' way there. There are hotels, resorts, and more - paralleling that of any Florida or Californian beach city throughout Cuba, but the way it's portrayed on us television is some kind of back-woods communist regime that everyone is poor, angy, and living in a shack.
Why? Because they 'won't adopt western ideals'.
Cuba, like many Middle-eastern nations don't except western ideals. Now they find reasons to invade these nations, to plunder the resources instead of using big business to screw the local people out of their resources - then claim its not plundering, its installing 'western values' to the region.
By western values they mean big business comes in and takes over along with a beurocracy to work hand in hand with big business and control every persons life.
The fact that the middle east these functions are already preformed by their religion means that its big business/western culture vs. current status quo/Muslim religion.
An attack on the culture is an attack on the religion. And it now is being done in the name of money, nothing more.
And blair, has now officially on record said as much, not that anyone is paying attention anymore.
This, as blair says, is the reason for fighting in Iraq, Palestein, and Lebanon. Not 'terrorists', not 'democracy', not 'freedom', not 'wmds', not anything other than 'culture' - which we know to be nothing more than pure, unadulterated, greed-laden, capitolism.
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