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Entry: Bungle in the Jungle Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/bungle_in_the_jungle#13240 Post contents: You worry too much. These overseas adventures are driven by domestic politics (not oil or the like), specifically they are driven by the Republican's growing inability to compete in domestic politics in the face of the overwhelming cultural power of their supposed opponents. It is an expensive and desperate campaign con game that can't go on forever, at least without a rest. What's more, the vast majority of the American people realize what a savage, irredeemable hell hole most of Africa is, and even the Republicans understand there is no domestic political reward for getting physically tangled there. (We signed a treaty that obliges us to intervene militarily in cases of "genocide" but you don't see anyone rushing to honor that treaty in Darfur, do you?) Besides, the chief way that the Republicans have sold out their nation and constituents in order to placate the media dictatorship (while servicing big business) is with open borders. We already have virtually no national interests because we are no longer really a nation, which is why almost all our recent wars have been in the name of what some call "liberal imperialism", wars to impose the principles of multiculturalism that don't work at home on basket cases abroad, aimed more at supporting the policies back home than helping others. It is hard to imagine the coming third-world/leftist ruling coalition spending money overseas that could be divvied up between the tribal groups making up the empire back home. It is also hard to imagine that even the Mid-Western and Southern white military adventurers who now make up the majority of combat troops will continue to volunteer to die for this new political reality. Even they are bound to tumble sometime to the suckerhood of dying overseas for a system that has as its chief moral principle their dispossession and elimination. Sent at: 2008 09 08