Thursday, August 09, 2007
Pacifica Commentary For August 8, 2007
The current condition of our government is one of absolute chaos. Strangely, it seems that everyone outside of government knows that we have descended into a morass.
The inability of government to extricate itself from this mess is based on a failure to learn the lessons of history. Here are some of the fatal errors:
*Triumphalsm: we are always right and God is on our side.
*Imperialism: the world belongs to us because we have the most bombs.
*Denial: we have always intended to do the right thing but we might have madea tragic mistake.
*Pretension: we care about the Iraqi people, if we leave there might be violence.
All of the above illusions are still in place after we have starved, bombed, tortured, imprisoned and killed the Iraqi people and their children. Violent intrusion into countless Iraqi homes has created a powerful resistance.
We have actually shown our hand by offering Iraq a plan for distribution of their oil giving the lion's share (80%) to private multinational corporation with U.S. and British dominance.
The President claims we are fighting a war against terror. Any sane observer can see that war is terror. Our misleaders have created a massive expansion of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
And now, the very same lies that gave us the Iraq disaster are being used to create a war with Iran. There is even a propaganda war identifying Islam as the problem. But any balanced observer knows that there are fanatics in every religious culture without exception.
Our nation has no authority to attack other countries based on their possession of nuclear weapons. We have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which was designed to abolish nuclear weapons. And now our administration, together with some silly Republican and Democratic candidates with all the banality of evil, say, "Sure we can nuke Iran if we feel like it."
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the markers of our descent into perpetual war. Our brutal international interventions since August 6th and 9th of 1945 have been consistently backed by nuclear threats.
Militarism remains as the final phase of each previous culture. It will be the end of our culture if the people do not create a total regime change in the United States. A malicious polity representing 4% of the world's people will only create resistance on the part of the remaining 96%.
The inability of government to extricate itself from this mess is based on a failure to learn the lessons of history. Here are some of the fatal errors:
*Triumphalsm: we are always right and God is on our side.
*Imperialism: the world belongs to us because we have the most bombs.
*Denial: we have always intended to do the right thing but we might have madea tragic mistake.
*Pretension: we care about the Iraqi people, if we leave there might be violence.
All of the above illusions are still in place after we have starved, bombed, tortured, imprisoned and killed the Iraqi people and their children. Violent intrusion into countless Iraqi homes has created a powerful resistance.
We have actually shown our hand by offering Iraq a plan for distribution of their oil giving the lion's share (80%) to private multinational corporation with U.S. and British dominance.
The President claims we are fighting a war against terror. Any sane observer can see that war is terror. Our misleaders have created a massive expansion of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
And now, the very same lies that gave us the Iraq disaster are being used to create a war with Iran. There is even a propaganda war identifying Islam as the problem. But any balanced observer knows that there are fanatics in every religious culture without exception.
Our nation has no authority to attack other countries based on their possession of nuclear weapons. We have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which was designed to abolish nuclear weapons. And now our administration, together with some silly Republican and Democratic candidates with all the banality of evil, say, "Sure we can nuke Iran if we feel like it."
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the markers of our descent into perpetual war. Our brutal international interventions since August 6th and 9th of 1945 have been consistently backed by nuclear threats.
Militarism remains as the final phase of each previous culture. It will be the end of our culture if the people do not create a total regime change in the United States. A malicious polity representing 4% of the world's people will only create resistance on the part of the remaining 96%.
