[GPSCC-chat] compare sci fi to US empire

[Jim Doyle]

*Tomgram: William Astore,
We Have Met the Alien and He Is Us*

*http://tinyurl.com/hzlh6oc

A former star wars enthusiast makes comparisons
to the US Military in foreign lands.

Including the comment

*Other U.S. military officers have noticed this dynamic.
In 2004, near Samarra in Iraq’s Salahuddin province,
for instance, then-Major Guy Parmeter recalled asking 
<http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/overheard-in-iraq-ready/>
a farmer if he’d “seen any foreign fighters” about.

The farmer’s reply was as simple as it was telling: “Yes, you.”
How are we perceived, who are we to them?”