Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opposing society for trying to mess with the best or a way of scaring them into surrendering before we killed everyone (which we can do, you know, city by city, town by town, every last fucking one of 'em, if it comes to that). But in Panama and Iraq, those reasons made no sense...
...Iraq, where a lot of them did support the guy we were after, no amount of civilian death would convince Saddam to surrender--he'd just let 'em all die, and he didn't care about the Young Americans for Freedom pledge to nuke Iraq into the world's largest glass coffee table. His bunker, after all, had a heated swimming pool. (Odd that we know all about the swim-up bar in that bunker and we have no idea what Bush's looks like...
...only are many Americans disgusted with their own politics, but Kuwait, which continues to oppress Palestinians and its other foreign workers, has made hardly a move toward actual democracy. Saddam Hussein remains in power. Hafez Assad of Syria is prospering. The Kurds are still dying, at the hands of Iraq and of our ally Turkey...
Kuwait's economy is up and rolling again, with thousands of new jobs for unemployed Egyptians and East Asians. Iraq, too, is rejoining the world economy, under UN-encouraged imperialist terms. Israel is getting more American aid for its cooperation. Panama continues to be a safe money haven and the canal continues to be ours. And the other banana republics still send us all the bananas we want...
...like Keynesian economics, raises the aggregate demand. It's a dependence effect, an addiction where you need to try harder just to forget how bad things are. Very few of us would stand for just another Panama or just another Iraq without squealing a great deal. And very few of us would mess with the really big bad armies and navies that haven't yet come in from the Cold...