The US as a great warrior tribe

[StarfarerBill]

By Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst

According to tribal Yemeni tradition, if a dispute has been resolved peacefully, any dagger that has been drawn cannot go back into its scabbard unless it tastes blood. Traditionally, an animal is slaughtered to satisfy its thirst and restore its holder's honour.

Since the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact without a single shot, let alone nuclear warheads, being fired, the 'Greater Middle East' region has been turned into a real theatre of war.

From the Gulf war in 1991 through to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, from Somalia in 1993 to Yemen in 2010, and through Afghanistan and Pakistan, the US military has gone to great lengths to demonstrate its strategic capacity to act in faraway places and to prove its ability to guard and advance US and Western interests.

In no time, military means and out-right war and occupation replaced diplomacy and international law.

In return, the Pentagon's budget has almost doubled from the level it was before 9/11 to surpass the combined military expenditures of all the countries of the world, all under the guise of the 'global war against terror'.

Alas, the costly failures in Iraq and Afghanistan and other countries have demonstrated that the Muslim world is far too stubborn to be offered as a sacrifice in the pursuit of global leadership.

More:
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/imperium/2010/01/201011110202267810.html

[Vidar]

1. K&R.

[winyanstaz]

2. K & R.......

That is not how a great warrior behaves.
A great warrior protects the weak and the helpless.
He feeds the people before he himself eats.
A great warrior does not seek power in the way the world thinks of power.
Rather he seeks power over his greatest enemy..his own ego and self.
So that when he dies he can stand strong before the Great Spirit with no shame in his heart and with clear and steady eyes.

[bertman]

3. Nice, St. Staz. K & R.