Reply #17: It's a POV problem [View All]

[alvarezadams]

The admin's worldview isn't TINGED by ideology, it is interpreted SOLELY through the prism of ideology.

They're such extremists that they think that "democracy" and "free marketism" matters to someone who worries not only about where the next meal is coming from - but if they'll make it back alive from the next visit to the market.

And now that dreaded word has popped up again and not in the old "positive sense" (anyone remember "democratic dominoes"?) but in the SE Asian sense. The article mentions the latest ideologue adviser saying something on the lines of "Americans don't realize that the failure of Iraq may result in a domino effect in the ME". And here we have the crux of the ideological prism POV; the ideologues fear a collapse of an untenable status quo.

"Democratic dominoes" obviously was a rhetorical euphemism for regime change ONLY in the countries that didn't tow the US/corporate line. It was never meant to apply to Egypt, S. Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, Pakistan, etc. - it was meant for Iraq, Syria and Iran exclusively. From an objective POV Iraq, Syria and Iran aren't the problems (certainly not from the "war on terra" standpoint), it's our "valued allies" in the region that are the greenhouses for terror and instability.... until we turned Iraq into a mess that is.

Until Americans realize what is really at stake and what is really going on, count on the GOP to have a stranglehold on "national security" for the forseeable future. Even on this board I've seen people posting from the "conservative" POV with regards to foreign policy and war... the same "mindset" that Jost identified (http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/bulletin.pdf#search='jostpdf').