I thought I was cynical...you've crossed the line to paranoid, I do think. The theory that all governments are actually operating behind the scence and in cahoots is permanent; people thought it (wrongly) about Communist China and the USSR; they've thought it of the pretty much every major government, everywhere. While I don't doubt that Bush ahs some strings on him, I think those come from people he's politically beholden too--i.e. major Republicans, assorted individuals on the religious right, etc., and those guys mostly influence domestic policy.



Certainly there are operations behind the scene; nobody denies that, but to think all countries act together seceratly assumes that all leaders have the same interest and desires, which is not true on a specific level--they want power, and prestige, but thier circumstances are different, so they must use different means to get said power and prestige, and different means to maintain it, to the point of pursuing mutally exclusive goals.



Such reality managed to split the Sino-Soviet alliance, and those two countries actually really needed each other with the world situation the way it was. We don't actually need most of Europe, and the only thing Europe actually needs from us is for us to not attack them. We don't need each other to survive, or even to have a decent level of living (although it'd be harder to get there).





Paul
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Cornsnakes and kingsnakes and gophers oh my!

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