US ponders military exercises in Baltics in bid to reassure Russia's neighbours

[JackRiddler]

58. I didn't say you were a neocon.

You are giving neocon boilerplate. About that, there is no dispute here. Your little speech could just as easily come from Kristol or a supporter of McCain.

Neocon boilerplate is largely similar to liberal imperialist boilerplate:

Watch out for China, who's going to stop Russia, Iran, North Korea, U.S. forces are needed all around the world to police and intervene for peace and justice.

And you topped it off with the classic neocon boilerplate ("1938!&quot and, of course, the wilfully ignorant abuse of the Rwanda example.

And North Korea? Really?! Get real. It's a starving nation with about the third the population of South Korea. The only conceivable threat is their nuclear weapons, which they'll never use except to posture and get aid packages. If they ever do, fine, we're in agreement: nuke them. That doesn't require any U.S. forces in South Korea.

Fuck that. A trillion dollars a year into this bullshit, so as to create the enemies they pretend to defend against, and to build a surveillance empire. Fuck them. Fuck the Pentagon.

Meanwhile, children in this country actually starve!

Sir (I'll presume; that's likely), I do not belong to your "we." We are both U.S. citizens, presumably. But your "we" is definitely not mine. You don't speak for America. America is not a "we" that you get to direct against phantom enemies. That's the most fundamental pro-war boilerplate.