RE: US to invade neighboring countries?
Posted: 12/8/2003 11:55:23 AM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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I'm with you most of the way on this. You're right - there is no 'good' reason to invade Canada... but I still live in fear. Since when has the US ever needed a reason to unshackle its war machine? Past experience has shown that the most cockamanie pretext will do. Remember Panama? Panama was relatively stable. Fat lot of good that did for the 3000 civilians that died.
I live in a nation with 10 % of the world's fresh water, and 0.5 % of the population. To the south is a nation that has ummm, California, for example, which has dropped their water table several metres over the last century, and has shown little evidence of whole-heartedly embracing sound agricultural practice. They will NOT be able to go on like that much longer. So, when Canadians decide as a whole that we want a fair market price for our water (which we appear to be willing to sell), then I expect that your alleged leader would bring the troops closer to home.
What resource does NAME_OF_COUNTRY_GOES_HERE have that they are not selling to the US at (or below) fair market value? Seeing as your answer for Mexico isn't NULL, I think we could see both. Shudder.
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RE: US to invade neighboring countries?
Posted: 12/8/2003 11:55:23 AM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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To be honest, I can't see us invading Canada for purely racist reasons. Why should we go in there and kill a bunch of white people?

But I'll tell you what, as much as I joke about wanting to conquer Canada, if our government actually did it, I'd probably go partisan for you guys. That's just wrong. I would support an invasion of Mexico precisely because they are unstable and very much oppressed, and many Mexicans cross the border every year to escape that. We might actually give all Mexicans a better life by conquering them. But Canada is a totally different story.

I share your fears, my friend, and I'll do my best in 2004 to alleviate them, but I don't trust our voting system much anymore. Whether you believe Bush and Company screwed up the vote counts in Florida or not, it has become quite clear over the last century or so that our voting system doesn't work to represent the "will of the people".

And water is likely to become the next killer resource. Don't forget that over 1/3 of the US is desert, and another 1/3 of the US suffers droughts often enough that they're borderline desert anyway. Water has always been plentiful, but it is also the single resource we (or anybody else on this planet) can't live without.
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