Featured Post for 05-/22-05/28:
“It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it”
I recalled this statement while I was reading a very powerful look at the My Lai massacre that took place during the Vietnam War. The depravity of humanity gone mad is revealed in this account and one would think that we would never again commit such atrocities. But the powers that be convinced us that we should put it behind us and move on. And now it seems we have repeated the depravity again in Iraq.
Is it true that our future is shaped by what and how we react to events and realities of the present? Have we gone even deeper into depravity since My Lai? And if that is true, what did we not do that would have kept us from drifting into an open acceptance of torture and unjustified bloodletting today? If the future we get IS up to us, what failures of our past determine what we leave for our children today?
Please take a read.
http://rwor.org/a/027/vietnam-destroy-village.htm.
The above link is a very descriptive anti-war piece about Vietnam. You might also notice that it is reflective of the Iraqi and Afghan wars of today. The parallel left me to doubt about our children’s future, but then I realized that we can set the tone of morality and ethical behavior, all we need to do to is reach out and do what is necessary to become what we want to be.
What is it we want the future to be? If we know that, and if we know what was failed to be done in the past, that caused our today, then we should know what must be done to set the tone for the future of our Country.
So why not look at Vietnam and see what it is that we have failed to learn from My Lai? Discover what would have prevented us accepting torture and massacre of innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think we ignored red warning flags in the run up to Vietnam and then we failed to prosecute War Criminals for their crimes after that war.
Consider these red flags from that sorrowful episode in our history: (1) The Lie about the Gulf of Tonkin that was used as a justification to invade Vietnam. Shouldn’t we have learned to deeply question our Government when it is promoting a preventative War?
Then we let President Johnson off the hook when the Gulf of Tonkin was exposed as a lie. And remember the justification using the fear that “If we ignore the Communists in Vietnam, the rest of the Far East Countries will fall to the communists like Dominoes”?
Isn’t this rationale much like the fear of the Saddam “Mushroom Cloud” sprung on us by the Bush Administration? Just compare the Vietnam “Domino Theory” to “Weapons of Mass Destruction” about Iraq.
Consider another Vietnam War red flag (2) “Those people are Godless people who want to overrun the world and it would be better to fight them over there instead of over here”. Really, isn’t this the same chant heard about Iraq today with only the name of the people, Countries, and cultures changed?
Isn’t the prelude to any war propaganda to demonize the people? Would either the Vietnamese or the Iraqis have the capacity to “take over the world”?
And (3) the red flag of questioning the patriotism of the American Citizens who oppose the war, by stating that to support our soldiers we must support the war: Look at the phrase “Support the Troops” and the implication by the war mongers that if you don’t support the war, you don’t support the troops. Does it not sound familiar?
It was also used during the Vietnam War. We must learn to be aware of these red flags when we start hearing why we should start a preventative war of self-defense, against a Country or people who are not doing anything to us. So isn’t this what we should have done before we invaded Iraq, to keep us from repeating the mistake of Vietnam?
Lt. Calley, the leader of the My Lai massacre served all of two days in jail for his crimes. And he spent only three years under house arrest (was free to leave the house and roam about town as long as he was accompanied by his keepers).
After the house arrest Calley went on to rake in a fortune as a speaker to Right Wing groups especially the Religious Right. You know who the Religious Right is – those Bible thumping, God fearing, Ten Commandments, Good Samaritan, clean Moral living people, who support the most immoral, most vile, most ungodly Administration in history, the Republican Bush bunch, yes that’s the good people I’m talking about, the core of the Republican Party.
We must learn to be careful in how we use our vote.
Those Vietnamese who were massacred at My Lai and those killed in Iraq including those tortured to death, are still dead. And Calley was the only My Lai soldier convicted while no one who authorized torture after 9/11 has even been charged. Is there any wonder that people around the world hate us?
And would you agree that the hate is with good reason? What have the many “Police Actions” since World War II (over 50 to date) gained us if not hate? They were called police actions because our Constitution proscribes to Congress only, the ability to declare war. And yet not one single one of those military events since WWII has been a declared war, as the Constitution allows, not this Iraq War, and not the Afghan War, currently being escalated by Obama.
Because of the Constitutional requirement that Congress only can declare war, the Executive has usurped a “right” from the Constitution, of wartime powers, therefore many things now are called “wars”. We must learn to hold accountable those who lead us into un-necessary military actions. War should be an action of last resort.
Not an opportunity for a hefty profit stream to War Industry Corporations. A failure to punish people and entities for criminal activity is nothing more than an approval of that criminal activity and that failure to hold accountable, generates more of the same.
“We had to destroy our Country to save it” Is this what we have come to? Isn’t this the general excuse by the last Administration for the destruction brought on America? It started well before the Bush Administration, but the big move came under that despotic Bush era. Remember that on 9/12 a committee authorized by Bush and Cheney and headed up by Feith was formed to mine data that could be useful to sell the need of an invasion of Iraq to the American people.
It later took on the name of the Office of Special Plans. And it seems to make no difference that it was the Bush bunch. Reality has shown that we are now in the first installment of the continuation of those Bush policies. Once again the electorate have proven that a vote for the lesser of two evils gets you the same result – evil.
We must learn to hold accountable those Parties that claim the high road and yet exude corruption.
The destruction to America under Bush is almost unimaginable: We have lost many rights guaranteed to us by the Constitution, We have lost our Moral position in the World, We have become a pawn of Corporate Interests, We produce for the profits of the War Industry, We have become a bankrupt Nation, and we have subjugated the financial future of our children to the International Banking Cartels.
And the justification for all these woes is that it had to be done to protect us from “Them” and “They”, people who hate us for things like My Lai and the newest atrocities, over a million dead in Iraq, over four million displaced in that country, a country ruined for the next several generations. And why? – Sadly the excuse heard today was that it was done to free the Iraqis, yet we still occupy their land, kill their people, and steal their resources.
And the damage done to America in the name of protecting America from it’s enemies, could be paraphrased, “We had to destroy our Country to save it”. Criminals and War Criminals must be punished without exception. There are consequences for not doing so.
The future we get is truly up to us. Haven’t we proven that time and again? We let those atrocities in Vietnam go unpunished. Even worse was the Vietnam War itself, one now proven to be brought about by lies and propaganda.
And most telling, we didn’t learn from the lie (Gulf of Tonkin) that was the excuse manufactured for going to war. In every military excursion since WWII there has been a pre-war PR run up promoting fear of the “enemy”, immorality of the people, followed by a manufactured excuse to exercise military action.
Would we be in war in Iraq today if we had charged President Lyndon Johnson and his War Mongers for their Vietnam War Crimes and successfully prosecuted them? Would prosecuting the Bush bunch for their War Crimes stop a Vietnam or Iraq of the future? How many victims would be alive today if we would have had the courage to do the right thing? We need to put a stop to war criminals.
The one sure way to effect that stop is to make liable those who become War Criminals and those who promote the business of war for profit. When we learn from our past and act on that knowledge, the future we get will no longer be the past we ignored, we will re-set our future, for the better. And surely our children and their children will benefit from our actions.
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Cliff, great perspective on this. If we continue to ignore criminals mass murdering through ‘war’ – we’ll never get anything different.
Thanks Mike. That is what I truly believe. Those who let go unpunished the immoral, the corrupt, the unethical, those who flout the Constitution and its well laid out plan for a cohesive and robust rule of law; these people must be brought to answer for their deeds.
My sincere belief is that a failure to punish the criminal will only embolden others to realize that crime does indeed pay and is an honorable pursuit because the rest of the public demonstrates their agreement by their silence.
We are an honorable people. It is time to act honorable. Bring the torturers to justice.
I think the people of this country can be honorable once again. But we keep electing these people and someone once said that we get the government we deserve. good and hard.
You are right Crystal. The question that must be answered and acted on is - Why do we keep electing charlatans?
One reason could be that those we get to vote on are “steered” upon us. Could we be than unperceptive? I don’t know.
Sickening isn’t it? if I carry a gun to protect myself, I might be arrested for breaking the law. but if these people send a few hundred thousand guns all over the world to kill millions, they get monuments.
Well said. What we have condemned we have become. We are no longer a nation of morality.
Just like the people in power who are there to serve us, we have to hold ourselves accountable. History has a way of repeating itself.
Yes Judith. We have become what we condemned. And we as a Nation will continue to descend into depravity that we would become sickened by – when someone else was doing it, but when we do the very same and even worse, we try to justify our behavior.
Seems like my mother called that hypocrisy.
Cliff Carson, your article is 100% right on. I am a retired US military Officer, with Intel roots, TS/Crypto/Code cleared, and never would I have thought we as a Nation would have committed another Vietnam. Now we are into two-for one! Iraq-Afghanistan. Our pugilistic adventurism must stop. US government policies are rooted in agnotology.
Our Middle east policies have been for decades wrong and just extensions of the British dogma that created the so called nation states therein! The Middle East is really an area of pseudo-nation states as none can stand on their own. This includes Iraq and Pakistan and India and Afghanistan and Israel! What a horrible legacy. So who do we find as our great supporter in this area: the bankrupted British Empire of old.
You are so right on the accountability issues. As long as only a minor player or two get punished for anything, and none of those that set the public policy (like Rumsfeld, Wolforwitz, Perle, Chaney, etc) never get hauled before the world courts this all will continue until our nation collapses…. like it is doing! DUH!!!! YES WE ARE BECOMING A FAILED NATION; WE ARE BANKRUPT! GET IT?
Did not the US government lead the world in holding the Nazi & Japanese leaders responsible for their policies in WWII? We even hung some of these folks. And Saddam Hussein,,, we saw to it he got hung and his gang had done nothing against the US! No less than the Spanish Court has brought this to light.
So where do we go from here? I am old and I do not see the light. In a ten year old book, the Globe Master Gods, it tells of why evil wins. Here I can only sense: evil will win again. Sorry.
Judith above has said it so succinctly.
LoveOurPlanet
Spooner you are certainly on target. It is hypocrisy at its best and just a few minutes ago I watched Republican Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah on C-Span stating why it was more important to find out what Pelosi knew and when she knew it ( as part of his “Truth Commission” ) than it was to investigate if war crimes were committed by the Bush Administration.
His inference was that we wouldn’t be able to investigate whether there were war crimes until we find out if Pelosi was lying.
When asked point blank by a caller if he was leading up the investigation of Pelosi to provide a diversion away from investigating if the justification for invading Iraq was based on lies he acted like he just couldn’t believe why someone would ask such a stupid question.
Thank you for your support LoveourPlanet. A few minutes ago I wrote to a Staff Member of my State newspaper. It is an extremely Republican paper and yet I recall how instrumental it was in bringing equality to everyone in our state about 50 years ago.
But on Monday of this week they ran a cartoon depicting the burning twin towers with a caption underneath reading “2974 reasons to support Enhanced Interrogation.” I was appalled.
The staff member and I had a meaningful conversation about three weeks ago about the trend of American Media toward supporting torture and how that reflected a dangerous trend in our society.
If we are going to claim the high road then we need to be on the high road. I couldn’t agree more with you that this trend ultimately leads to the destruction of America.
Most people remember President Eisenhower’s admonition to beware the Military Industrial Complex. Almost no one remembers what I think was his most telling quote:
“America is great because America is good, if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great”
“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor”
We elected Bush who ran on a non-interventionist foreign policy pre 9/11. Post 9/11 he was launching preemptive strikes and we reelected him. Our election process needs a change.
But, sadly, the USA will never change until it collapses. Then the rebirth is likely to bring a worse government. It’s not going to get better in any foreseeable generations.
Everyone that gets elected gives us good promises, good messages. Bush ran on non-interventionism, Obama ran antiwar, and yet, we have more of both? So, the election process needs to be changed? How about we just stop paying for this fraudulent, criminal government.
abcdefg, You are correct, a transformation will take a long time as we in the transformation sense it. But it is happening.
I am a student of geopolitical matters and the transformation I think (boy that’s a stretch, chuckle) we are in, is that of governance. The so called national state party systems are becoming irrevelant.
Two transformations are taking place: One is “Immediate-communications (the internet, e-mail, web-mail, iphone, etc, etc) is the expression the Global political body.“ We can see that in the leading international leaders like Obama, Queen Noor and Mandela. They have Global followings.
The second transformation taking place right infront of all of us is the dissolution of the so called Nation State being expressed in by human populations that move in large numbers across not too-solid national borders. Examples of this is/are, the USA’s immigrant intake of some ten to twenty million non-registered immigrants. DUH! All of Europe has this problem too! I guess I could add all of Africa to this issue too.
The root problem of all of this, if we see it as a problem, is global population increases. One needs to eat! Then work, then do all the social things humans do.
Populations are ever increasing and the resources are ever decreasing. So masses of humans will move to meet thier needs. My wild guess based on my past seven decades of life is that no-one will come to the fore and admit mankind needs to self limit itself. We humans are not want to admit we are the problem. So do I see a better future based on the past. NO!
As Cliff Carson so well stated,
The Future we Get is the Past we Ignore
Gotta just, LoveOurPlanet
P.S. A side note: I often wonder why humans do things like NASA and burn holes in our atmosphere to situp space labs at a billion dollars a launch. If I remember right: WE ARE IN SPACE! Chuckle.
Love our planet….
Google that quote and see if you still agree. That was the rationale behind 9/11.
I think you’ve taken me out of context.
I think we all agree that we need change. As I said in my article we need to decide what it is that we want to change to, then we need to do the things needed to make that change.
Whaever we do, it needs to include a return to the rule of law, because as Loveourplant said a population crunch is acoming.
As that time approaches, lawlessness unrestrained by rule of law will certainly become the Government and then we will be ruled by the “Law of the Jungle”.
Cliff, what do you mean “We”? The American people are not to blame. Successive presidents – those with real integrity, have warned the citizens enough! It has always been the controlling class of the wealthy who dictate all events to their financial advantage. No one need be reminded of current fiinancial disasters. The well-being of the ordinary citizen never has been and never will be of any consequence to oligarchs. The response by “love our planet” proves my point. “Our pugilistic adventurism must stop”. That is a typical generalized statement which devolves into meaningless commentary. He should know better. In ANY military operation a PLAN must be followed, almost always in small pockets. ”Love must know this!” A military force never wanders aimlessly, unless they are suicidal. The very best thing the American people can do is to organize openly into small groups of American Militia pledged to follow the Bill of Rights and the Constititution. I say small groups so as to not pose a threat to the flavor of the week that happens to be in power. This is perfectly legal until the day those precious principles are declared illegal and the those in power declare the Militia to be ”enemy combatants”. Then, simply go underground. It is never “We should”, as a mass of people without direction that makes a difference. History teaches that it is always small groups who have a clear goal and undeniable commitment, that are victorious.
a good response gazachs, but I dopn’t totally agree with your premise that “we” ( I assume you mean we the people ) are not responsible.
The people are responsible for not forcing the issue “back then”, because it gets more difficult to force the issue with each passing day.
As the Oligarchs solidify their control and “we” have less and less control because of the loss of rights and the acceptance of the ignoring of the rule of law by those Oligarchs , we do lose ground in the fight to regain control.
It doesn’t mean it can’t be done. It just means that the change will be more difficult to achieve.
One if the reasons that Independent Parties have had so little success in elections is that they insist of remaining as small groups, and therefore they lose the advantage of numbers.
What you are proposing is an open armed rebellion. What my article is about is an awakening of the people to the need to bind together politically to throw off the yoke of bondage that is slowly being placed around our necks.
I believe peaceful change can be forced. If not, there is time for the other option later . But the peaceful forcing cannot come from small groups, it has to come from a New Party, not from the Two Headed Monster we have in Washington now.
Cliff, there are two books by UC Prof. Jared Diamond that are really good and can help all in understanding social/anthropological behavior. One is, Guns, Germs and Steel, and the other is Collapse:How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Diamond calls the ruling elite, “cleptocrats.” He explains how such groups (like our two political parties) gain and stay in power. He also explains how religions are so organized. It is all in placating the masses. Interesting information.
LoveOurPlanet
Thanks Loveourplanet. I’m going to get that book : Collapse How…. That has a very intriguing title and sounds like it addresses just exactly what I’m writing about. I’ve always used the word Kleptocracy when speaking of being ruled by thieves.
That’s what our invisible government is and more, and I have been writing a book about the “Shadow Government” that manipulates the public for their profit. And War and the propagandized fear of “They and Them” is their most profitable endeavor. Think Neo-Con.
I believe it was Napoleon that said whoever controls the Financial Structure is in Control of the Government. And those who influence our current Government are the International Financial Cartel membership.
Cliff, in #17, your comments lack focus.
You are advocating the creation of a Three-Headed Monster – or more! What assurance do you have that a “New Party” or parties will not also be dysfunctional – or even worse? It is the system that is wrong, not the number of parties. So how do you propose organizing the complex masses of people to be “responsible” and when should they begin? You are still talking in generalities with only wishful thinking to offer. My solution is specific. You are describing things as they are without a tangible resolution.
Also, I said nothing about “armed rebellion”. I said to organize openly in small groups in support of the Constitution, while it has some semblance of legality. I don’t mean marching and banners. On this you are right. My explanation was inadequate. I’m talking about meeting socially as a group to re-dedicate ourselves to the priciples of freedom.
As you well know, Bush may have succeeded with the Patriot Act which now supersedes The Bill of Rights. Obama has no intention of being involved in that political quagmire. His lofty position is the property of the oligarchs. Despite his good intentions, Obama is trapped. He cannot and will not do anything about the people who caused the fiinancial disaster, as he has obviously demonstrated.
Reply #11 “ABCDEFG” said what no one wants to hear, “sadly, the USA will never change until it collapses”. Cliff, if he’s right, then when the end comes, your time for action will be lost somewhere in the uncertain future whereas mine can begin now. Thanks for your response.
Cliff, sorry for my bad spelling. Klepto- yes!
You bring up the “money-power” world. Interesting in that we are on the cusp of seeing our money-power going way down. I lived in the Middle East on the economy in the Arab world, and they are sinking their (former US dollars) in to precious metals (gold mostly) now. The Brits just sold off almost all of their gold to ME.
The Middle East powers are now looking to China-India as the area to invest as they feel the USA has shot it wad and will not too far into the future devalue. The key action to watch is if Saudi Arabia comes off the dollar standard on oil. I feel they will in 3-5 years. They are giving themselves an adjustment period and assurity that China-India is going to be in the future much stronger markets than the US. With 4 billion consumers I think so! We do, well did have 300 million comsumers. Now not so much! Seriously: LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS!
Here in the US, the discussion that we are loosing power in any way, is not accepted. Especially by the Neo-cons. Agnotology at its best!
Along the way I feel we will hear lots of fear talk, which being so old, I call old-folk-fear-chatter. War mongering (as is now going on) will continue by Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Yoo etc. They will beat the drums loudly… as long as they do not have any family going of to the fight! They’ll send the poor off to war… maybe offer full scholarships as bribes; kinda like we do now! Sad.
LoveOurPlanet
Loveourplanet. First I wasn’t sure whether it was K or C. Thanks for clearing it up. Why on earth would a Mid-East country place its trust in the USA? Every one so far except Israel and Saudi Arabia that has worked as a friendly county with us has been bombed, suffered clandestine activity by the CIA and Special Forces, or threatened.
China and India are the coming powers and they are neighbors of the Mid East. It makes sense.
gazachs. Actually it was me who was not explicit enough. I have long advocated getting rid of the two headed monster -one at a time. I think the Republicans are ripe for going defunct. So that’s the one I have been railing against. I have vowed never to vote for a Republican Candidate again. If enough people takes up that mantra, and a lot have, the Republican Party’s lights will go out.
The Third Party I have written about for the past three years, I suggested a Coalition of Independents to supplant the Republican Party. There are many good Republicans who would leave the party, and are leaving the party, but we must give them a better alternative than the Democrats.
If the GOP dies out and the Third Party becomes viable, then the Democratic Party will have to make a decision, choice one would be better as a representative of the people, and choice two would be something else but if we did the first part right, they would soon join the Republican Party in the dust bin of history.
See I think it is the Party loyaty of the members and the corruption of the leadership that I think is the problem. If we can open the eyes of the membership of the two parties and offer better governance this scenario can succeed.
I think highly of your ideas and concerns. Everyone wants the same outcome, but we have divergent ideas.
Cliff you said it when you wrote: “Everyone wants the same outcome, but we have divergent ideas.”
I think our current President hit that nerve right on. He is more open to everyone & their ideas. Obama, is from what one can see, a more inclusive person. Very interesting.
I am a 100% independent (Well, and happy atheist too, gads! Yes Toto there atheist in the fox holes. I was US military 1961 to 1999).
So… I come at a lot of matters as liberated from many bound up ideas, accepting of all and kinda an outsider. I’ve worked in 50 plus countries. Which for me is/was great. This all made me open to almost all that goes on whether in religion and/or in politics…. and especially open to as you say, “Everyone wants the same outcome, but we have divergent ideas.” So very true! Just do not trash the earth or cause hurt.
Now I think as you assess; the Republicans have gotten so far whacked-out noeconish, that they are not acceptable. Luckily for the Democrats they are ridding in on the shirt tail of an Obama populist, not a Democrat as the Dems might want to think.
So we are now of ONE kinda-party, albeit a hybrid thing. I think Obama having seen and lived out in the world and not so much in this US closed-compound camp, closed-mind homeland. He sees matters in away that allows folks like you and I, a chance to see our ideas expand. We can embrace the entire community and not just the chosen kleptocrats (chosen by the party as you and I see it).
I think of Obama as a beginning of a Populist-Ideas-leader using the Democratic Party to his-our advantage. How do you see this?
I wonder what a Populist platform would be? I am not smart at politics,,, and for sure do not want to see another kleptocratic system gain more control than we see now. Absolute power corrupts.
We do need a checks and balances; as the Bush administration so well has shown us. These principals are in our constitution but they have become, via the party system, ineffective.
Succinctly;The PACs have corrupted our congress and courts.
I could never of thought up of the US having so terrible a group get a hold of our federal government. I am afraid that they (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Yoo, neocons, etc, etc,) have done something that no terrorist group could have ever done: destroyed us from within. They destroyed, trashed and ignored the very principals that our the foundation of our nation. They are a perfect example of agnotology.
I wonder if now we are seeing as expressed in some of your prior blogs; the front end of our nation coming apart. I would vote to leave, separate, from the east-coast NY-DC-PAC cabal. Hummm.
LoveOurPlanet
Loveourplanet. Another good example of agnotology at work would be the smearing of Rachel Carson ( Silent Spring ) in her quest to expose the dangers of pesticides.
The Chemical Industry went after her big time portraying her as a person who wanted to ban the use of all pesticides. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Her thing was that the irresponsible use of pesticides was the problem, for example crop dusting pesticides and tanker fog blowing ( as in do not trash the earth or cause hurt ).
To find out what a Populist platform would be I invite you to check out the Home page here and read the Populist 10 Planks and I ask you to not stop there, please continue to read everything and especially read the “A Populist America”.
I am a Populist.
These are a couple of masters who wrote the playbook. Our government is runing the plays. Hopefully, we are losing, but at what a cost!
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels
29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945
“Naturally the common people don’t want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same for any country.”
Herman Goering to Gustave Gilbert at Nuremberg, 18 April, 1946
Now we have Netanyahu on Iran.
Hitler plus Chamberlain equals Czechoslovakia
Netanyahu plus Obama equals Iran
“I have no further territorial ambitions.” Adolph Hitler, shortly before the headlines, Nazis invade Poland!
Steve, your quotes are chilling; but appropriate. And the parallel you show now of Netanyahu and Obama’s interactions to the lead-in to WWII hit home here as I am a three-decade Ret military guy.
Just as Bush-Cheney-Wolfowitz-Perle pimped the US population for a military attack on Iraq while saying we are looking at all options (Which they were, but they were not considering them!) Chuckle, here we go again!
The only good thing here is, “The pugilistic states, US-Israel-England,” are out of monies. They are financially bankrupt. It is good in that these governments can not afford to pay for a new war as attacking Iran. They are broke, but bad it is bad, in that they will likely commit a desperate act. This act of desperation no doubt will be dramatic; so they can rally their sheep like populations behind them. We hear the propaganda daily on NPR.
For you and I, all we can do is keep our heads down and motor on. I fear all of this is just the playing out of the nature of our species. I call these acts of wanton stupid violence the work of the “Caingene.”
Seems mankind would rather put a lot of effort in building war machines than schools, music, happiness. I often wonder if say just in theses past ten years if we would have gone in to the Middle East and made roads, schools, & hospitals, etc, ; just that for the populations; if they would not now be very prosperous & not be wanting to be attacking each other as we now see.
In keeping with my rant (chuckle) about mankind’s bad behavior,
may I rant that I see “RELIGION” as the core cause of most of these so called bad behaviors.
Religion is divisive and pits one persons beliefs against another: as we see in India (HinduXSeik), Middle East (JewXMuslim), Balkans (OrthodoxXMuslimsXRoman Catholics), North Ireland (CatholicsXProtestants). It is fun being an atheist as I am free to look at and accept all beliefs equally,,, stupid! Chuckle.
Religions are based on ignorance (that which is not known or understood) and so religions appeal to wishful thinking. This is why the poor & ignorant are believers by quantums over the better educated. In the US there are four times as many agnostic/atheists in the PhD ranks and general population than there are Pentecostals&Jews. Religions leads to beliefs like, ” I get more land because God (well my god) promised it to me. I want more believers because my belief is the true belief!” YIKESSsss!
Any way, bet we see an attack on Iran by Netanyahu’s election time. Then we will see a retaliatory oil embargo. Chuckle.
Reality is: The Middle Eastern oil Kingdoms now have a better market in Asia to tend to and that would give them a reason not to pull along the weak and to go to the stronger (bill paying) economies of India & China.
Reminds me: the middle ground players here are the non-aligned African and South American Nations, who will do fine with out a war on their soil. Brazil, Argentina, etc will do well.
Keep thinking. LoveOurPlanet
The Middle East Oil Wars could be coming to an end with the discovery of over 2 1/2 Trillion barrels worth of Oil Reserves here in the U S.
Keep in mind that a trillion is a million million. To put this in perspective , if the U S uses 20 million barrels of oil a day , then this discovery would give the U S 20 million barrels per day for the next 342 years.
But there is a problem. Royal Dutch Shell is going to be the “owner” of the largest portion of this new find in the U S and then there is Canada. Some of it will belong to the U S, but I’m sure the Oil companies will be able to somehow weasel out more subsidies like they did in the Bush years.
How many American citizens know that the U S Oil Companies got $642 Billion in subsidies during der Bush while making profits that would eclipse all the oil profits made since the discovery of oil?
Yes we have a two headed monster in Washington and they are not sure that they have gotten your last drop of blood, so the squeeze will continue.
“Yes we have a two headed monster in Washington and they are not sure that they have gotten your last drop of blood, so the squeeze will continue.”
However it seems that We the Sheeple are gradually mutating into turnips, and you know what they say!
Good one Steve. What also is a worry, is when they can no longer blood from you, what’s next on the Agenda? Do we become fertilizer?
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