The reasons "liberals are so obsessed with appeasing people who want to kill them" is that they do not LIKE having been ENDANGERED by the "initiatives" undertaken by "NeoCons" in "promoting" a world view that GOADS people halfway 'round the world into murderous (even suicidal) vengeance! SOME of us, at least, think OUTSIDE "the box" --- and have come to realize the UNDERLYING motivation of the whole obscenity that "we" have actually "cultivated"!

We CONNECT THE DOTS --- and come to recognize the fundamental FAILURE of "our" past MISguided (or maybe more like MISBEGOTTEN!) MIS"leadership" (both “political” and also “corporate”!) to fulfill their ACTUAL obligations to the membership of this society (and others) --- which WOULD have been to OPTIMIZE BOTH THE CHARACTER AND THE QUALITY OF "OUR" PRODUCTS, rather than to merely MAXIMIZE ”THEIR” MONEY!

Actually, a VERY LARGE PART of the blame REALLY even rests on the heads of all those ORDINARY folks who long SPONSORED and BANKROLLED the likes of a Saddam Hussein --- by buying so much of what he "had to sell", and then brainlessly burned it up as a mere fuel to power “our” automobiles! --- and who (or whose kids and grandkids) have subsequently been lured off into fighting a dirty little "OIL war" over in Iraq, making "us" lots of enemies both there and the world over, and in some cases even coming back dead or permanently damaged themselves, or who may have LOST LOVED ONES or friends therein!! Surely that is an UGLY, HATEFUL reality to which to have to face up. But would it somehow be any "better" for people to now just meekly try to erect a "psychological defensive barrier of DENIAL"??! Would not THAT actually merely COMPOUND the REAL fraud that has been foisted off on all the REALLY aggrieved victims??!

With respect to those who have "bought into the bullbleep" and still CLING to MILITARISM as the supposed "answer" to the whole problem (Dobbs, for instance, at least REPRESENTS himself to have "combat experience", suggested to have been in Vietnam, and I see no reason not to take him at his word), it can all become a way of life. Somehow many such folks never quite come to recognize that "THEIR" war was NOT the wonderful "cause" to which they gave a measure of devotion --- and many of them ACTUALLY, GENUINELY BELIEVE that there could have been no more intelligent alternative to what they have embraced. These people need to be guided back in out of the cold.

Vietnam, it should be noted (by EVERYBODY!) is now finally (forty long hard years later) now largely HEALED and relatively PROSPEROUS. And the people there DID THAT FOR THEMSELVES, without (and indeed rather IN SPITE OF) any "help from "US". (And no, there was NOT any cascade of "dominoes" that came "tumbling down" in the aftermath!)

So too, hopefully, the three different ethnic groups who comprise the artifically-cobbled-together (initially by Winston Churchill) nation of "Iraq" will ALSO recover, in time (whether they remain "bound together" or --- as I for one think perhaps more likely --- go their separate ways; in any case it really doesn't matter).

The only question is whether THIS nation will actually continue to prosper, in the aftermath of having now SQUANDERED so much of its resources (particularly its OWN Providential Endowment of PETROLEUM. Fully 70% of that endowment --- and specifically the "cheap, easy" stuff --- as is now KNOWN (originally by Hubbert-inspired statistical methods now fleshed out by satellite mapping and sonic-imaging mapping of underground structures) TO BE ALL USED UP.

This country now needs to get busy developing the TECHNOLOGICAL ALTERNATIVES to its abject, addictive dependency on OTHER PEOPLES' OIL --- instead of trying to "engineer" wars by which to "control" (and ultimately expropriate) reserves elsewhere. Those alternatives HAVE been devised, investigated, and many even "piloted" going back the last 30-35 years now alteady. It is now time to get SERIOUS about IMPLEMENTING them.