Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
Global Insurgency? No. Global War on Terrorism? Equally no. Global friction to a US foreign policy in dire need of a fresh approach that is more populace focused and less rooted in sustaining "friendly dictators"? Yeah, I really do think so. But that is just my assessment. I toss it out here not to "radicalize" anyone, but just to gain other perspectives to help shape my own.
Totally agree with you on this -- as always, my disagreement is limited to two factors:

- I believe you significantly misunderestimate the American domestic political impact on your proposed courses of action.

- Like Dayuhan and Tukhachevskii among others, I believe you significantly over estimate the global impact of America the ugly and evil while discounting the impact of America the very excessively rich.

I also believe that the latter error leads in a sense to the first error...

Good ideas can be obscured by the adverse impact of arguable propositions on one's audience.