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8 de Noviembre, 2006
Must...Colonize...Must....Or....Die...
Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Imperialism, The White Lens
AND THAT'S JUST WHAT I MEAN when I say that yesterday's Democratic victories (while sure to bring many good changes soon, hey it's already brought one doozy) won't change many important things about America, a country built by those, and still made of many, who embrace the very notion of Colonialism, Imperialism, and keeping tightly glued blind behind the White Lens.
Everytime we grow a democracy, as we are in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's a another victory for us against 'them', those they want us dead. This isn't complicated."
—Seth Swirsky, Conqueror
Yeah. That's what the 14 year-old Iraqi girls-at-checkpoints are telling me, Seth. Whole lotta growin' goin' on over there. Please allow me to paraphrase David Letterman, in his rebuttal to O'Reilly's nearly-identical assertion:
It is complicated—to those of us who are thoughtful.

Everytime we grow a democracy, as we are in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's a another victory for us against 'them', those they want us dead. This isn't complicated."


kick it, ése.