Yeah, Germany was such a sapp!! Those fools, paying retributions...
They should have just denied responsability and let it dragg in courts for the next 50 years, untill everybody that had something due dies out.
And Japan? Haa! Just imagine how many clock radios and walkmans they must have built to pay all those war retributions, unnecessarily!
[sarcasm]
I see a pattern here. The US only wants to be on the receiving end, not the paying end. They left Vietnam abandoned to their rotten luck, and didnīt pay a cent for those carpet bombings. Neither did France for Dien Bien Phu, wich might i add is now on its 50th birthday.
It seems that since the Cold War started, no nation has ever payed its dues anymore. Hummm, except one country and guess just what country that was?
Thatīs right!! But no cigar for you!! The name is Iraq!!
They payed it with their own blood and a big chunk of their own future.
The pattern is simple:
When a powerfull nation is on the receiving end, and the poor country is on the paying end, the first will muscle their way into a fat retribution pay check, and the poor country has to shit gold for them till they pay it all or go bust trying.
But when the tables turn, the powerfull nations will muscle their way OUT of paying their dues, maybe by placing a convenient threat of sanctions or two, or wave the battle axe around.
As for Iraq, it will end up with the short end of the stick, like always. They are getting quite acostumed to it. Ever so often, a powerfull nation or empire will come allong, reek havok all around and then leave in a cloud of dust.
The British Empire did it for ages, around the world and never payed one friggin cent. Why should the US be any diferent? They come, blow the place to kingdom come, harvest every resource available and then leave those poor bastards to their rotten luck...
The Spanish Empire did it, the Portuguese Empire did it,the Roman Empire did it, Kublai Khan did it, and Bush Junior will do it too. Fact of life.
Paying retributions, allthough morally and legally right, is for suckers! Only the poor ever pay them. The rich will sleeze their way out of it, as always. The only time when youīll see a powerfull nation paying retributions is when they are rased to the ground, like post-war Germany and Japan. If those big strong nations manage to keep some of its military might intact, there is no one nor nothing that will force them to pay.
In the immortal words of James Hetfield, itīs "sad, but true".
I wish it were diferent, but it isnīt.
Anyone that expects the US to be true to their word of rebuilding Iraq, is a total sapp!
While giving with one hand, they take twice as much with the other.
The US is in there for the bucks, not the hearts and minds. As soon as the bucks stop flowing, itīs time to shit fire and scram the hell out of there.
Thatīs why something has to be done, before there is nothing left to save.
They need real elections, the US forces to leave, and friendly troops to come in.Shurely not Iranian forces, nor turkish. But there are plenty of arab nation friends to Iraq that donīt have their own agenda to maintain. Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt, even Jordan. These nations donīt have plans to take over a chunk of iraqi territory for themselfs.The iraqis just want the americans out, because they grow weiry of them. 12 years of sanctions, bombings, and now a full scale occupation? Of course they are scared. They see it as another Palestine, another Israel. But if you change american forces with Arab League forces, the majority of iraqis will comply.
At least itīs a damn better prospect than having the americans there. And itīs a more viable solution for the region.
The question is: Will the americans accept giving up their goose with the golden eggs?
Slim chance...
:meh:
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