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Thread #113349   Message #2421038
Posted By: CarolC
24-Aug-08 - 12:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: War in Georgia (2008)
Subject: RE: BS: War in Georgia
I think it might be productive to look at the whole question of loyalties from an entirely different angle, anyway.

To me it looks like what we have now is more like a franchise operation. The US, the UK, some of the former Soviet satellite countries, and Israel, all being franchises of a larger enterprise (an emerging global empire), and that the loyalties of those in power are to the larger enterprise rather than to their own individual countries. Of course, they no doubt think that what is good for the larger enterprise is also good for their own countries, so they probably don't see their loyalties as being divided at all. Others of us might tend to see things differently, because we see an inherent conflict between what's good for our own country and what the neocons think is good for the world.