in solidarity with jon....i too refuse to keep my *petty and useless
comments on a leader, country and political system that is not* my own to
myself as long as the actions of the country keeps impacting my daily
life....
and i truly hope this is the last whinging discussion thread about the lack
of quality of certain kind of posts or the dominance by certain
posters....this is an open forum....if you do not like what you are getting,
get your hands dirty and contribute to change it...trying to impose
self-censorship is futile....
a request to those who get abused off-list....please forward any abusive
emails to the entire listserv so that we know who they are....if these
people do not have the decency to stand by their opinions in public, they
don't deserve the anonymity...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NG19Dj03.html
*Unknown to most Americans, Washington's garrisoning of the planet is on the
rise, thanks to a new generation of bases the military calls "lily pads" (as
in a frog jumping across a pond toward its prey). These are small,
secretive, inaccessible facilities with limited numbers of troops, spartan
amenities, and prepositioned weaponry and supplies. Around the world, from
Djibouti to the jungles of Honduras, the deserts of Mauritania to
Australia's tiny Cocos Islands, the Pentagon has been pursuing as many lily
pads as it can, in as many countries as it can, as fast as it can. Although
statistics are hard to assemble, given the often-secretive nature of such
bases, the Pentagon has probably built upwards of 50 lily pads and other
small bases since around 2000, while exploring the construction of dozens
more.*
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