Reply #1: there is no comparison [View All]

[UpInArms]

of the Marshall Plan to the current "plan" by the WH - if the WH denies the comparison of Vietnam's quagmire to Iraq - and if they say that the $87 is an "exit strategy" - one has to consider that there are still troops stationed in Japan and Germany 50 years later.

So what is the comparison thing about? Another maneuver to propagandize the situation in a "positive" light - that we should be behind such a grand plan of rebuilding a country that "we" destroyed with no cause (other than the PNAC plan).

Or is it just an obsfucation on depleting the pockets of the US taxpayer and putting the contents thereof into "righter, tighter hands" (quote from GHWB)?

I just believe that the journalists are not asking the right questions one more time - using buzzwords and catch phrases that don't really matter - never seeing the underlying policies for what they actually are and do.