BF2S Forums Chomsky on current Foreign Policy

"To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration"

Is this guy serious?  Under the 1994 "agreement," Clinton gave NK two light water nuclear reactors.  Well, no shit they would be happy with that wouldn't they?

usmarine2007 wrote:

"To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration"

Is this guy serious?  Under the 1994 "agreement," Clinton gave NK two light water nuclear reactors.  Well, no shit they would be happy with that wouldn't they?

Somehow the Chinese figured out how to get their rockets of the launch pad after they fired up the supercomputers Bill sent over, too.  Diplomacy and appeasement are two very different things.

I must say i enjoyed reading over what Chomsky had to say with regards to Iran.

"They can’t control it [Iraq] and it’s almost impossible for them to get out for reasons you can’t discuss in the United States because to discuss the reasons why they can’t get out would be to concede the reasons why they invaded."

This particular point made really underscores the entire stance towards Iran.

Stingray24 wrote:

usmarine2007 wrote:

"To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration"

Is this guy serious?  Under the 1994 "agreement," Clinton gave NK two light water nuclear reactors.  Well, no shit they would be happy with that wouldn't they?

Somehow the Chinese figured out how to get their rockets of the launch pad after they fired up the supercomputers Bill sent over, too.  Diplomacy and appeasement are two very different things.

The problem is pressure from Industry forces politicians' hands.  Money wins elections, money passes bills, thats the way it works in American Government.  All our politicians, Democrat or Conservative, are slaves to money.

CoronadoSEAL wrote:

usmarine2007 wrote:

"To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration"

Is this guy serious?  Under the 1994 "agreement," Clinton gave NK two light water nuclear reactors.  Well, no shit they would be happy with that wouldn't they?

and we saw how clinton handled the mog first hand didn't we.

Ya, that was great.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Don't you guys see that it is more than just Democrats and Republicans fulfilling their wishes?  Or are you too stupid to see that Bill and GWB (and many presidents before) are forced to do whatever the concentrated capital wants them to do.

Yeah, lets keep bitching about how bad Bill Clinton was while supporting GWB, Reagan, et al., even though the same people/money make all their decisions.

Get your collective heads out of your asses people.

I don't support any of the above mentioned retards.  I know they do not make the decisions.  They are just like a CEO.  My problem is, a lot of people blame Bush and give Clinton a pass.....that is my problem.

/there, head out of my ass.  kthx

"Dick Cheney declared in Kazakhstan or somewhere that control over pipeline is a “tool of intimidation and blackmail.” When we have control over the pipelines it’s a tool of benevolence. If other countries have control over the sources of energy and the distribution of energy then it is a tool of intimidation and blackmail exactly as Cheney said. And that’s been understood as far back as George Kennan and the early post-war days when he pointed out that if the United States controls Middle East resources it’ll have veto power over its industrial rivals."

@ usmarine2007 : That was my point when you erased that thread that went out of control, remember ? Oil=money & power.
Somewhere else in the article, Chomsky talks about the geopolitical interest of invading countries in the Middle-East. The dictatorial problem has never been the primary goal of the US intervention. It was the control of the oil. (just look at a map, you'll see).

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