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The Right was right after all
« on: 2007-10-31 16:29:30 » |
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[Blunderov] Resistance is useless. Or maybe not...
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/26/42
THE RIGHT WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL
By Bob Boldt
I want to confess that I have been extremely resistant to the Neocon argument that we have to establish a beachhead for “democracy” in the mideast. I am not sure that I have completely reconciled myself to their cause, but I do find their assertions more and more compelling. Lets look at one of the main assumptions upon which they base their case.
The Western powers, most notably the United States and to a large extent England and Western Europe, have become used to an extremely high (I might use the word “lavish”) level of expectation when it comes to our consumption of energy and other natural resources. Even though we give lip service to conservation and the development of alternative sources of energy, we really have no interest in inconveniencing our selves or our children by assuming what we perceive as the draconian conservation measures it would take to create an equitable global distribution of the world’s resources.
Once you grant that assumption, the Neocon argument assumes a rather more persuasive dimension. If we in the West wish to continue to live in the style to which we have become accustomed, then we need to set aside our over romanticized notions of a measurable level of dignity and even survival for the rest of humanity. If our children are to live well, then the less fortunate members of the human family must continue to live poorly. Surely no one can possibly envision a world where a BILLION plus Chinese enjoy the benefits of suburban sprawl with two cars in every garage, a heated swimming pool and a satellite hookup for their computer’s home entertainment center. The Earth cannot possibly support such extravagance.
I understand that our leaders cannot tell us the honest truth about this. After all, they are speaking to what is still basically a good-hearted, if naïve, people. They cannot say for example: “If we are to continue to enjoy our God-given benefits of democracy: life, liberty and property, we must screw the rest of the world!” Why disturb the tenderhearted electorate? They do not like to be reminded of the fact, that for us to live well, others must die.
That brings us back to our “democratic” beachhead in the mideast. The primary resource we must all have to survive is oil. It is the lifeblood for the maintenance of our way of life. Ironically it is a substance that is not entirely under our control. The major oil fields are in the mideast. The critics of our new policy of preemptive invasion in the area do not realize that we must have near absolute control of that part of the world if the oil is to flow unimpeded from the Persian sands to our SUV tanks.
There is another factor that has arisen that makes our exclusive control of the mideast oil resource even more necessary: the possibility of our reaching “peak oil” in the very near future. According to peak oil theory, we are about to reach (or have already reached) a point of no return in oil production where, just to maintain present production levels, we, like Alice, have to run faster and faster. As demand equals and then surpasses supply it will become more difficult and much much more expensive to maintain even present levels of fulfilled consumption. The greatest country on earth is not about to have to go hat in hand along with inferior nations like China to beg at the table of Mohamed (blessed be He) for our oil at a quantity and a price beyond our control. We cannot even for a moment consider playing such a cruel game of musical chairs. It is only prudent for our survival and appropriate to our rightful position as the dominant world military power, that we assume a controlling influence in this part of the world. It would be preferable to do this through diplomatic means and puppet “democracies,” but, since that appears unlikely, we must do it through military force. Such is the not so well concealed wisdom of our Neoconservative rulers. Even if we are not in a precondition of peak oil, current growing demand both in this country as well as in the developing world make our control of the worlds oil an absolute necessity.
These visionary Neocons do not paint a pretty portrait of the future. It is however a realistic picture of the modern world based on the imperatives of our consumer economy and our responsibilities of world domination. How many Americans really want it any other way? Certainly not you or me. We are too wedded to our own comfort zones. Our braying about the Brotherhood of Man and the Sermon on the Mount are self-delusional hypocrisies. By any assessment, this will not be a world that anyone who harbors the illusion of a Christian conscience will recognize. The fanciful ideals of our Founders will have to be put aside like children’s toys as we fully assume the burdens of Empire and the mature duties of this American Century. It is a decision that has already been made for us, the decision to not only forcibly dominate the rest of the globe in a condition of poverty and servitude, but also to create a docile and subdued lower class in America as well.
The Neocons feel that this is a war on every level. Being at war means that almost any way is justified if it serves to defeat the enemy and assure our victory. In periods of great stress, when all our self-serving values and institutions are in danger of being swept away, it is necessary for a new breed of man to step forward into the breach, as it were, and place before us a new morality and a new, tougher version of our being in the world. George W. Bush believes that he has a divine mandate to take upon his person just this burden. He will not allow this cup to pass from him. The Neocons are the new Ubermensch who lift this cross, smash the old liberal sentimentalities and craft the new order. They are the state. They will write the past, the present and the future. For the sake of our safety, security and world dominance they must do things that may seem immoral to those who cannot free themselves from old principles.
I do not know if Bush was instrumental in the planning and inauguration of the events of the eleventh of September two thousand and one. I do know that everyone acknowledges the circumstantial evidence that might be put forth by any prosecuting attorney, that he had motive, opportunity and means. I also know this, if 9/11 had not happened, it would have been necessary for them to have created it. Of that there is no doubt. Let’s assume for the moment that Bush was the responsible party in this American Reichstag fire. Would he not be branded a monster? No, I think we would forgive and understand that the death of over 3,000 American martyrs was necessarily if we wish to summon a sufficient degree of outrage, and if we were to find the courage to overcome the constraints of constitutional and international law that would keep us from our destiny.
It is not without precedent that horrific events have been planned by past leaders in order to rouse a somulent people to a sufficient fever pitch to even go against their own perceived interest to be persuaded to smite the infidel. Remember the Maine? Remember Pearl Harbor? Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Remember Operation Northwoods? Remember The Gulf of Tonkin? If the truth of the authorship of these mal-conceived plots had been known by Americans at the time, many of our public and military officials and possibly three presidents might have been given long prison sentences and would have been grateful to have escaped with their lives.
As in the past, our present leaders are not beyond deceit, fraud, and even murder to advance their goals. These men sleep well at night, knowing that what they have done and what they are doing is for the greater good. If we knew the full ramifications and final results of these tactics, we too would probably endorse these strategies. Without 9/11 we would probably not be quite so enthusiastic in our support of the somewhat dubious programs of this administration leaders. Without 9/11 we would not be so acquiescent in giving up our liberties in exchange for the promise of security. Without 9/11 we would not be so eager to believe that the military option is the only effective way to defeat and convert the more adamant followers of Mohammed (blessed be he.) Granted our assumptions and our goals, can we really blame President Bush if he creates a ghastly tragedy or two to unify the nation?
I think 9/11 was just the beginning. I’m sure other, even more terrible plots. are being hatched to keep us on the path. If a nuclear device is released in the Sears tower that renders most of Chicago a death zone, will we dare accuse anyone except the Iranians? Who would question our leaders’ decision to jail certain traitorous members of the Senate who have urged restraint and diplomacy? We should be more than happy to give up the last of our useless freedoms to our strong protectors. In the final analysis, we must admire such pluck and determination on the part of our rulers who have the audacious courage to face and renounce the consequences of an unrealistic approach to realpolitik. Their difference from many past captains of state is not so much a matter of kind but degree. Considering that the American people are at present a confused uninformed flock, we need a strong leader who does not bow either to popular sentimentality, the false guides of law or an outmoded morality. The American people are no longer capable of or interested in living in a democracy. They must be ruled.
I see a world of squandered, dwindling resources, governed by sovereigns, beholden only to all-powerful elites reigning over a large population of a narcotized proletarian/consumer classes who live, play, shop and die at the whim of their masters. The question remaining for those of us who would escape this Orwellian netherworld is not whether we would maintain any individual values and rights, but whether we can lay claim to some strategy or economic advantage that would put us near to the top of this heap. A due respect for our personal survival as well as the survival of our nation demands that we jettison our flimsy, outmoded ideas of human dignity and non-violence.
Of course we cannot expect the rest of the world or even certain elements of our own society to sit back and go gently under our yoke. They would not trust to the benevolence of their false gods (blessed be their names) to smite such a greedy, selfish, brutish nation into the dust. They will struggle tooth and nail against their servitude and domination. Those among them that we do not appoint to the dubious distinction of house servants, will resort to terrorism. Who can blame them? The American people, especially those in the upper classes and those at the top of the ever dwindling middle class will probably be too sedated by an unending flow of media-pap to know or care about the horrific state of the world or even the state of their fellow countrymen. They will place their simple trust in an American God and in his servant, George W. Bush. They will awake to a movie-world morning, turn on the filtered Good Morning America, pop a soma and kiss the wife on their way to the job at the Pentagon.
Wishing you the peace of the grave….new…world.
Peace,
Bob Boldt
Post script: Author’s Post Script:
Last night it occurred to me, as I was watching a portion of Julie Taymor’s Frieda, how much the great revolutionaries of the past would give anything to be alive today. I think of Freda and Diego, Rosa Luxemburg, Emma Goldman, and Karl Marx himself – how they would envy our opportunity to smash these cardboard cutout, capitalist war-mongers.
The old disparities between the haves and the have nots, the relationship of greed and corruption to power and the transparent manipulation of the masses have never been as obvious or as flagrant as they are in the present actions and policies of our American rulers. It is no coincidence that the old, seemingly outmoded Communist/Socialist, rhetoric of the past seems to come so readily to our lips today. George W. Bush has made this all possible and necessary.
Comrades, be not faint of heart. The greatest revolution yet is within our grasp. These greedheads who presently think they control our country are the irritant that will produce our Revolution!
My sympathies are with my faint-hearted Democrat kindred who still think they can effect change through the ballot. This Revolution will not be peaceful, non-violent, or bloodless. George W. Bush has gradually, inexorably closed all our peaceful, democratic options.
Or in the words of perhaps the greatest Communist of all: “I come not to bring Peace, but a sword.”
Bob
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