Re: RAT ANTI-NATO-ART

[ActorsGng1@aol.com]

Wow.  I just went through the sixty-some-odd bits of thought about this and I 
continue to be as baffled as before.  At any given moment, there are more 
acts of oppression, murder, violence being committed than we could possible 
count, or even know about.  The additional tragedy is the selectivity of 
which, if any, of these acts we are "told" to be upset about.  The "Western 
Democracies" (i.e. the corporate part of the world) has spent most of the 
last fifty years telling us that free markets and money will save the world.  
That it's not about religion, or morality, or ethnicity.  Well, what if the 
U.S. took the ten billion it's about to spend on bailing out another S&L and 
had simply gone to Milosovic and said, "We will pay you one billion a year 
for the next ten years to allow us to peacefully help rebuild your country 
and create a stable, free society".  If all any one of these "third-world" 
nations wants is money, let's give 'em some.  I wish it was that easy, but 
it's not.  The world is made up of mostly arbitrary borders and we're all 
just a bunch of groups of tribes of families who see the world as "us and 
them".  There are no simple answers, and until every covert op and shady 
backroom business deal and one-sided media coverage is exposed, we're going 
to continue to find ourselves having heartfelt discussions about what should 
have been done after the fact.  

Thank you for letting me spout, since none of this is new to anyone.

Mark