Bush's Next Four Year Plan - Imperialism!

I'll skip a link for this one, because I do not know where to point you to substantiate my view. This is my view, my interpretation of what I heard this past Thursday night, when president stupidhead addressed the RNC.

To preface my discussion, I would like to point out that his entire plan represents the most backward thinking radical platform imaginable. He talked of looking forward to the rest of this century, but I heard policy proposals which will undo the progress of the previous century.

I was a student of government. I consider myself better informed than most, including many pundits who seem to have forgotten that we have 228 years on which to look back and see what lessons we have learned about our place in the world. Monroe's Doctrine effectively created a US sphere of influence around the Americas, a backyard we were prepared to defend by force and it was our decision as to which dictators were to succeed and which ones were to fail.

The implicit Bush doctrine has extended this backyard to include all oil producing nations in the world. He picked on an easy one, Iraq. Now he promises an ever increasing circle of freedom, meaning places where we are willing to conquer a sovereign nation, in the interest of protecting our oil supply.

He also calls for an ever increasing circle of free trade. This sounds to me like the other half of imperialism (conquering armies and hijacking the economies of formerly sovereign nations). Bush is the wrong leader for the wrong nation for the wrong century. He's welcome to build himself a time machine and go back to rule 18th century England. I personally would give money for that end. But GW seems to think that imperialism is a grossly underrated worldview, and will work for us in the 21st century.

Imperialism died for a good reason - people want freedom. Bush talks about bringing freedom to the world, but he has no clue what freedom truly is. He has not yet liberated Iraq, and his plan never will. He has sent our troops to kill Iraqi citizens and sent our biggest international corporations to rape the economy. Iraq's oil (and our tax dollars) are paying Dick to screw up the rebuilding of Iraq. Looks to me like Bush can't even execute the imperialist agenda without screwing it up.

PS to JK: PLEASE steal my talking points.
PS to anyone who wants JK to win: PLEASE steal my talking points.
PS to those who support Bush: be careful what you wish for, if you punish us with four more years, remember what happens when irony bites you in the ass.