As of this moment BBC reported on its site the election's projected result: Bush 254, Kerry 252, racing for the coveted 270 votes, but the White House already claimed Bush's victory.

"Whoever wins, we lose." That's a teaser from the film Alien Versus Predator (AVP) and I am reiterating it here. A more detailed analysis as to who should win if we are to prevent future wars is provided by US historian Gabriel Kolko (from Luis Teodoro's very informative blog)

"Although Bush’s reelection seems to be the worse-case scenario, the worse may actually be better for the world, says US historian Gabriel Kolko".

"The Bush administration, through ineptness and a vague ideology of American power that acknowledges no limits to its global ambitions, and a preference for unilateralist initiatives and adventurism which discounts consultations with its friends much less the United Nations, has seriously eroded the alliance system upon which US foreign policy from 1947 onwards was based."

"If Kerry is elected, predicts Kolko, his administration will try to reconstruct the alliance system, and abandon the chauvinist rhetoric favored by Bush and company. If it succeeds, it will mean an end, though only in the short term, to the problems that the US now faces in terms of manpower and resources and which prevent it from attacking other countries. The result would be continuing US expansion and wars, this time in the name of “progressive internationalism” and under the flag of alliances and even the UN."

"On the other hand, a Bush victory will continue the process in which the alienation of the US’ allies by the ineptness and arrogance of the Bush style has forced a halt to the US attempt to remake the world and dominate it completely. A Kerry win would arrest the process."


Now, someone named TOMMY SMITH, posted his comment: "...white supremacists,sympathetic to the suffering of others, especially people of color. Where do you get this from.can you tell me? white supremacists ,ive lived in south all my life and only met a few like that and no one pays them any attention. never paint anyone like that to you know them. to paint such a wide group of people is wrong. it make me wonder he may be worse than them. but i cant judge you on that."

Despite my having difficulty deciphering his post due to faulty grammar and spelling as well as his doubtful identity (Tommy Smith my a$$), i posted this comment and it really made my day saying this:

"Mr. Smith, that “racism and chauvinism” which defines “most Americans’ views of themselves and the world",is an observation shared by millions of people who are sick and tired of US’ imposition on supposed “sovereign” states like meddling with economic and even national security policies in exchange of aid and loans from US-controlled institutions like IMF and World Bank. How I wish someday that lightning strikes from above and strike America at that to make its government realize how much suffering and death it had caused to millions of people around the world."

And so Mr. Smith, perhaps upon realization of his country's baaadness, joined the campaign to write off the debts of third world countries to his great nation. Seriously, I didn't hear from Mr. Smith again.


time posted: 1:18 am nov. 4, 2004