[Peace-discuss] and yet, the lesser evil is very evil indeed.

[Laurie Solomon]

With respect to regime change, the American people have been attempting to 
do that with respect to the US for years; but it seems that "the more things 
change, the more they stay the same." It is foolish and ignorant to expect 
that a regime change in another country with a different culture would bring 
about anything other than new people in power doing the same exact sorts of 
things vis-a-viz the masses.  At best, people like McCain are looking for 
new people whose behaviors are consistent with (a) the interests and points 
of view of the US government, (b) the interests and views of US 
corporations, (c) and what members of the US corporate establishment can 
extract a profit from - even if those new people are just as horrible and 
corrupt as the old people.

>I ask because the most common thing my professor friends say to me is:
>"Powerful countries have always exercised their power. Why should the
>United States be held to a higher standard?"

Maybe one answer to your professor friends, who appear to be entwined in the 
academic world of establishment academics and may really be no better than 
the members of the mass media when it comes to critical thought, might be 
"because the United States  has tended to be arrogant and self-righteous 
enough to claim that they are superior to others and hold themselves to a 
higher standard than others."  After all, isn't it the US that is 
hypocritical enough to insist on other countries following the stated legal 
and ethical standards that the US proclaims for itself and declares inform 
the political, economic, and social life of the American society despite the 
fact that the US has consistently failed to meet its own goals itself, which 
it tends to justify by holding to a "do as I say but not as I do" stance 
when called on their deviances for their self-claimed goals and ethics.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Karen Medina
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 7:15 AM
To: Peace-discuss List
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] and yet, the lesser evil is very evil indeed.

Wayne quoted: > Sen. John McCain said Sunday it was time to discuss
"regime change" in North Korea,

Thanks for sharing the article, Wayne.

I have seen people who think they should be able to power over their
yard neighbors. But most people don't actually try to, they just wish
they could. At best, they create neighborhood rules that new people
have to abide by.

So why is it more acceptable for world powers to "reign in" nation 
neighbors?

I ask because the most common thing my professor friends say to me is:
"Powerful countries have always exercised their power. Why should the
United States be held to a higher standard?"

I lived in a country where there had been a very cruel dictator and a
very secretive government 20 years before. Ah, but the United States
had trained this guy militarily, groomed him, and essentially put him
into power. In other words, our regime change put the horrible
dictator into power. So far, we have never helped put in a good
person.

By the way, my friends' final conclusion is: "World domination is a
natural thing. You are wasting your time being a peace activist."

-karen medina
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