I couldn't agree more. People all over the world don't hate America without cause!

Hi Ms. Milliscent,

Since the early 70's, we as our nation's people have been losing ground in terms of the quality of life offered by this country. Certainly since the the eighties, there has been a consistent effort for international corporations to sequester itself from the oversight of government regulation. As it stands now, our government appears to be co-opted by the lust for profit that motivates the so-called corporate sector. Governments are no longer directing our affairs.

Gadhafi certainly has his issues but I would have thought that after Iraq we would have learned our lesson regarding our ability to set nations "free" and expecting them to automatically democratize.

Clearly, the west has made another bid to gain an upper hand in the drive for control of the world's natural resources. We've entered a dangerous phase of the capitalist enterprise.

Coming so soon after the earthquake in Japan and, as the college basketball championship progresses, the timing for this new front in our perpetual global war couldn't be better.

This time around we the people didn't even merit a nodding justification for war and the average person in Libya, and how our greed will effect them, wasn't even a blip on the radar.

Best,

scott
Mrs. Kelly's Playhouse

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Milliscent-

The answer to the second is, I believe, 'yes.'

But fortunately, the answer to the first is 'yes.' It's the Pax Americana which, ideally, adds to global economic growth. If the US continues(d) to be among the leading economies in terms of growth, trade and innovation, then such a Pax benefits us disproportionately.

However, as the liberal Democrats entomb us in a Euro-style welfare state, we'll have difficulty capturing that benefit and, soon, be unable to afford keeping the global peace.

But it doesn't take a genius to see that providing global energy security, safety for trade, and general conditions for the rise of multi-lateral trade, all are long term net positive returns to our efforts.

Dear Mistress Milliscent...I too have been asking myself these same questions after this current conflict. On your first question the benefits do not outweigh the price paid. If one asked the second question to the honest rank and file the answer would be no to an empire.

Wouldn't it be enlightening if one time a month one of"us" could meet with the President in a candid discussion, no politics no contrivances, to share an honest exchange to give real input in what people feel? I don't feel very well represented by our politicians.

Hope all is well with you...dave

gary,

Certainly you are correct in that our worldwide military adventures create shocking levels of anger in those they are directed against.

M

scott,

I think that corporate America would disagree that they are running things here. I imagine that perspective is that they are barely hanging on as the whims of Congress, and the edicts of the Executive branch continually cut into profits.

That said, I agree with you regarding Libya, there is absolutely no reason to believe that the next ruling cabal will be any better than the last.

Natural resources: I guess we have to disagree about our nation's motives there. We control Iraq, and the rest of the middle eastern oil producing governments couldn't survive without our support but we are paying almost 4 bucks for a gallon of gas. I don't think we are stealing their oil, but I do think that demanding a cheap price is something that we should consider, if we are going to be protecting the producers.

Lastly, regarding our perpetual war, you and I are in agreement, it must end.

M

o,

Well, I read the time-line as suggested.

In turn, I would recommend that you read Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike, as referenced in the time-line. You will see that his words are taken out of context.

I guess to my mind, when one false assertion is found, one must question all of the others.

M

saratoga,

Thank you. I agree, maintaining a safe and secure world for the free flow of goods and services is a financial positive. I'm not sure that we are actually accomplishing it though.

M

dave,

I think that our leaders are very much removed from the people they govern, and that you are right, honest communication between a leader and a citizen is always a good thing.

M

Hi Ms Milliscent,

I don't buy into this liberal vs. conservative argument. Both sides of the aisle have worked together to create the mess that we're in. I don't see us entombed in a welfare state. If that were so, some of the living corpses would be receiving the basic benefits they deserve as citizens of the Empire.

In fact, it's our ridiculous international belligerence and short-sighted opportunism that's bankrupting our future. How can anyone look at our perpetual rolling war costing billions a day on multiple fronts, in countries whose cultures we don't understand or respect, killing our brave and trusting youth, serving only the greed of an insular elite and justify the choices of our elected leaders?

We may still be Top Dog but our days appear to be numbered. We could evolve into a cooperative member of the world community but our politics are rather adolescent when compared to those who are nipping at our heels.

I get really, really tired of the finger pointing. It's OUR government and OUR leadership. Whether Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or whatever, we elected them and should hold them ALL responsible.

We have serious domestic problems that cry out for serious cooperative attention.

Almost forty years ago I was a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Afghanistan. Americans were generally well-liked and appreciated there. What a difference the last thirty years have made.

In thirty more years when my daughter is an adult approaching her middle years, I fear for the world we've bequeathed her generation.

I'm sorry if I've made more of this post than was necessary but we are woefully deficient at cooperative effort for the benefit of all.

Best,

scott
Mr. Kelly's Playhouse

Milliscent-

Once again, we see scott kelly to be an uninformed person.

Where to begin?

Well, first, his bias shows in that he criticizes an imagined grab for control of 'natural resources' by 'the West,' but is oblivious to China's bidding for and owning so much of the world's available oil reserves over the past decade.

This preoccupation with a shadowy US corpocracy is the mark of, well, small, inexperienced, uninformed minds.

If he's ever actually worked at senior levels of major corporations, as I and many of my friends have, kelly would know that such people are not, in the main, that smart, nor that long-lived in their positions as to care about the motives he implies.

Best to stick to reality, scotty.....not the wild imaginings of your feeble mind.

Perhaps you've been in chastity too long, or had one to many swallows of your Cuckoldress' piss, and maybe her bulls' unprotected seed?

-saratoga

scott,

I agree with one of your followup points. Both sides of the political spectrum are guilty. George Bush led us into military quagmire, our current President was elected promising change but the only change we got was deeper into that quagmire. Both are warmongers with no plan to achieve peace.

Likewise both Presidents led us into deeper economic hardship by following the same failed bailout policies.

What we need is real change, not what recent elections have given us.

I also agree with you that we get the government we deserve. If change is to come, it must come from the bottom up, for it will never come from the top down.

Where we must disagree is motive and responsibility. I don't ascribe corporate motives to our military interventions, rather a simple desire for those we elect to use the military as their own sort of 'game' in some sick desire to go down in history as 'great men.'

I also feel that each of us have a responsibility to ourselves, our family, our friends, and the community around us. I don't think that we have a responsibility to somehow take care of people who refuse to take care of themselves or become productive members of society.

M

saratoga,

While you and I disagree with scott's political philosophy we must keep our debate civil.

It is I think always appropriate to attack ideas but we shouldn't attack our fellow kinksters personally.

M

Hello Ms. Milliscent,

Thanks for coming to my defense. I realize that my sentiments and beliefs are significantly to the left when it comes to issues relating to corporate motivations. I understand that many people see it differently.

One point that I would like to respond to from Saratoga's above is the issue of China. I think it's astonishing and reveals much about how hypocritical we can be as a nation that we rushed into unequal trade agreements with China in the wake of the fall of Communism in the Eastern Block.

I realize that we were one of many countries that chose this route and we didn't have a completely free choice in the matter. But after spending most of my life being told of the evils of Communism I find it more than a little ironic that we hopped right into bed with a major country that still is Communist to the core.

Best,

scott
Mrs. Kelly's Playhouse

scott,

As for me, I am a free trader to the core. Free trade in not just goods, but in ideas and discourse.

Nations that trade in goods, and nations that build bonds between people over borders have greatly reduced ability to war with each other, and war must always be among the greatest of evils.

M

Hello Ms. Milliscent,

Your point regarding building bonds between nations is a good one. I just wish we did it uniformly and with more of an eye to where it's leading us. Look at how our good intentions in Afghanistan's struggle with Russia led to so much trouble later. Admittedly our efforts in those days in Afghanistan weren't business oriented.

Best,

scott
Mrs. Kelly's Playhouse

scott,

I think that we often are very naive when looking at other cultures.

Such as the Afghan.

We assume that people everywhere want freedom and democracy. That is a bad assumption to make, for many cultures lack any concept of those ideas.

M

Milliscent-

When someone is so ill-informed and illogical as scott, it's really difficult to separate the person and the views.

I typically refrain from ad hominem arguments, but, in this case, I really don't see another way.

When a person denies some facts and invents others, you can't really separate the person from the reasoning.

-saratoga

saratoga,

But Milliscent says that all must play nice in the sandbox, and as it is her sandbox those who do not play nice can't have a pretty spanking before bed!

M

Milliscent-

Alas, it would seem to be a cyber-spanking. Thus, being denied it would be no denial at all.

-saratoga

saratoga,

That is why I always like to have my boys right where they belong. In my dungeon!

M