General Discussion

Whiteness of the NATO nations is easily understood. Nato is made up of mostly the old brutal Empires of Europe who have been invading and pillaging entire continents for hundreds of years. France, Belgium, the UK of course, Germany et al. I guess the nostalagia for the old days when they were powerful oppressors of the people of Africa, India, South America, the ME, hasn't gone away.

If you are not aware of the bigotry which was part and parcel of those Empires, I suggest you study that history.

We are now the most powerful Empire, mainly because of our Military and the old, fading Empires are back in business, doing what they always did, clinging to the coat tails of the latest Empire. A lesson should be learned from their history, but apparently it is not.

As I said, the Whiteness of the NATO leaders was striking and simply reminded me of their bloody histories regarding the people of the continents they raided, the theft of their cultures, Their resources and the brutality of their tyrannical rule over their conquests.

I remember thinking when I was little and reading about the history of the world, how lucky we were to live in a time when Empires no longer existed.

Was that ever naive. I saw them today and listened to their war talk and wished I had been right.

Re other nations forming alliances like NATO.

South American nations HAVE formed such an alliance, thanks to Chavez who saw the threat from NATO and helped form a similar Alliance on that Continent. One of the main reasons why they hated him, which was imo, rather hypocritical of them.

And Gadaffi was trying to do the same thing in Africa, form a power alliance of African nations to prevent the old Colonial nations from returning to that Continent. Mandella and Bishop Tutu referred to him as their 'brother' because of how he helped end Apartheid in S. Africa. We of course viewed him as an enemy which had much more to do with his attempts to form such an alliance and his nationalizing of Libya's oil, than anything else.

Reading the Wikileaks cables was very enlightening regarding Chavez. Funny how they claim the right to an alliance like NATO to 'protect' their interests, but could not imagine that South America and Africa had the same right to do so. In fact it was shocking to them, a real 'threat'.