secstats were Alexander Haig, and then George Schultz..

Things don't change. There is now an American assassination squad out to kill an American citizen "on suspicion". He's a moslem now staying in a moslem country. The news doesn't say much about it, but the president has to right to order the assassination of American citizens without charge of evidence of anything. The CLU is trying to fight the current case.

it's insane. the US has created a world of enemies, and it makes more every day by its use of violence. I know some people think I'm too critical of the US. Well, it killed nobody knows how many millions, mostly civilians, in Vietnam. It killed one and a half million in Iraq. Nobody has a count for AFghanistan - but again it' seems to be mostly civilians. It killed 200,000 in Guatemala.jwhole villages right down to babies. It has given almost no aid to haiti. It's "aid" has been soldiers to keep the country quiet after the only elected, democratic leader they had was exiled by the US. It maintained dictatorships over much of Latin America, dicttators who killed and tortured and stole. The US has been at war more often than any other country in the world for ever since 1775. It has invaded courties on at least 175 occasions. It staged a rebellion that stole one third of Mexico,and called it Texas. They annexed Hawaii on the with of Wealthy pantation owners like Dole, and reduced the native population to poverty.  Oh, and I skipped over the slaughters that were called Indian wars.

The US has a far more violent history than we recognize. Now, in a state of fear and hysteria, they're spreading violence all over the world. And driving themelves broke in the process.

Iraq is destroyed. There has been no rebuilding. No government can function. there. Millions are still refugees. Unemployment is something like fifty percent.

Now, Obama, president of a country with millions unemployed and underemployed, with police forces being cut because states are broke, with unemployment benefits run out for miillions, Obama is going to keep 50,000 troops in Iraq, some ten years after Bush declared mission accomplished. But they'll still be on the payroll because he needs more in Afhghanistan. Many of the troops remaining in Iraq will be "private contractors". That means hired thugs - with no exaggeratioon. Andthat means Obama cannot possibly spare money to keep American schools open, and American famiilies fed.

This is a nation in hysteria with one of the most corrupt governments in the world. (In the health care debate, there were six lobbyists for each congressman - spending most of their time giving money and offering various benefits. And it worked.

This is a nation in hysteria, fear, disillusion. With its power, that makes it the most dangerous country in the world.

I don't think we begin to recognize how far democracy has collapsed in the US, and how indiscriminately vioilent it has become.

Timothy -

What threat were the soviets? What countries did they invade after 1945? In the cold war period, the US invaded latin american countries manyl times. It, with the British and French, invaded Iran. The British invaded Egypt. France and the US invaded Vietnam. The US led and supplied a genocide of Maya people in Guatemala.

Tell me about the Soviet invasions of that period. The only Soviet effort I can think of offhand is Afghanistan. And now the US is doing it, with similar results.

Terrorism is not a threat. Common sense should tell you terrorists cannot possibly kill on the scale the US has been killing on for the past 60 years. Islamic terrorism is not  a threat. It is a reaction to the American threat.

Do no so easily assume that we are the good guys with Jesus as our commander in chief.