tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771704622036490711.post577937532478349783..comments2023-03-29T09:34:36.436-07:00Comments on Salish Sea Communications: Where Did You Stand 10 Years Ago? Where Do You Stand Today?Salish Sea Communicationshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390794466991625894noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771704622036490711.post-85864873702299678122013-03-21T10:01:04.833-07:002013-03-21T10:01:04.833-07:00Very good post, Mike. To answer your question, I s...Very good post, Mike. To answer your question, I stand in the same place today as 10 years ago - knowing that war was utterly wrong, and appalled at so much of the US's foreign policy (and of course increasingly appalled at my own government's policies as well - Harper having learned his ropes from Bush). Like you, I suspect, I have have lost count of the times I could easily say "I told you so", but there's no comfort on that phrase, alas. Still, I agree, it's too hard on the soul to be angry, so let's hold onto our hope, no matter how far-fetched it might seem. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771704622036490711.post-73108756354590928192013-03-21T09:30:15.302-07:002013-03-21T09:30:15.302-07:00What's wrong with a foreign policy that embras...What's wrong with a foreign policy that embrasses perpetual war?kenphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02672278527919008865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5771704622036490711.post-56602239681312248152013-03-21T09:08:19.317-07:002013-03-21T09:08:19.317-07:00I guess it's rude to bring up Vietnam, and the...I guess it's rude to bring up Vietnam, and the fact that the horrible mistake of starting a war against indigenous people based on lies was repeated like it had never happened.<br /><br />My comfort is knowing that the neo-con perpetrators of the Iraq war were thoroughly hornswaggled by Ahmed Chalabi and his band of phoney Iraqis to believe that Saddam was oppressing everyone and the whole population would welcome US troops as liberators, grant the US permanent bases and access to cheap oil, when in fact Saddam was the leader of the Sunni minority. The neo-cons ignored the 700-year old Sunni/Shiite blood feud. In effect, US troops defeated Iran's mortal enemy for them. Now Iran has effective control of Iraq, and the US has no influence there and has no access to Iraq's oil. Howard Garretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15694095662928156804noreply@blogger.com