Right. Yesterday we warned Iranians against intervention in Iraq. We and our friends can do that. They can't. I think it was Condi Rice, the former provost at Stanford and a PhD in political science who explained the underlying principle by stating that "We're special." This, as Chomsky often says, is the Fundamental Axiom of International Relations.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>
> > It also raises several questions. Has the American
> reaction to the
> > attacks in fact been a massive overreaction? Is
> the widespread
> > belief that 9/11 plunged us into one of the
> deadliest struggles of
> > our time simply wrong? If we did overreact, why
> did we do so?
>
> Because nobody fucks with the USA. The USA can fuck
> with anyone, but
> don't try it with us.
>
> Is that so hard to understand?
>
> Doug
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