OT: Regime Change (also known as 'Nation Building')

Published 04 July 04 04:49 PM | alexcampbell

When we hear the words 'regime change' or 'nation building', we usually think of them as things that the USA does to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Chile, Haiti, Guatemala, Cuba, South Vietnam,  etc.  As an aside, it's worth noting that these doctrines have made all of these places highly rated tourist destinations for Western tourists.  I've spent this weekend reading Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival, and it has induced some urgency into my view that 'regime change' is something that the people of the USA need to do to the USA.

I imagine that many Americans are going to see Fahrenheit 9/11 this weekend.  As I live in Australia, I probably won't see it until 26 July so I'm sitting on the couch at home watching Bowling for Columbine this afternoon.  I've seen it several times, but it is still the only movie I've ever seen that makes me feel the need to cry.  It makes me think: there can be no doubt that Noam Chomsky is a brilliant thinker with cutting insight into the state of international relations, but he is inaccessible to a wide audience.  This is where Michael Moore comes in - he presents many of Chomsky's issues and viewpoints in such an emotional and accessible way that any moderately educated person in the Western World can understand them.

Reading about the wide-spread reactions to Fahrenheit 9/11 gives me hope that regime change is on the way for the USA.

Comments

# matthew said on July 4, 2004 07:58 AM:

Speaking of regime change, this page has got a good set of articles on the CIA & the USA's regime changes (in Cambodia, Chile, Iran, and many other horrific stories)

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/CIA_GreatestHits.html

# Michael Moore sucks said on July 4, 2004 05:27 PM:

Michael Moore is a crazy fool.

# Jeffrey R said on July 4, 2004 05:56 PM:

There are some of us who love the administration more when wackos like MM keep up his propaganda... I'm looking for regime change in France... :)

# Eric Newton said on July 4, 2004 07:03 PM:

MM is so far left even the left arent sure what he stands for. I hear that the obvious bias plays into the entire movie so I just think its "singin to the choir". People irrationally hate Bush... just because. Because why? Just because.

Great freakin answer.

Go ahead and believe that Fahrenheit 9/11 is an accurate account of events. And I'd like to the 1993 version of Fahrenheit 9/11 and see if its as biased as this one...

oh wait MM has a political agenda of "I hate Bush." right...

# Unfairenheit 9/11 said on July 10, 2004 04:44 AM:

Read the linked article for a good analysis of F911.
I've seen it - it stinks.