Bush is like Hitler. He blames defeats on his military commanders, not on his own insane policy. ...
Paul Craig Roberts
Is Bush's war insane or just obscene?
The question is prompted by this comment from a correspondent:
"We turn on the news to hear that some poor bastards in some distant dusty village in Somalia are blown to bits by the most lethal technical kit in the world, and against which there is no defence. Then we change the channel... take the dog for a walk, have a coffee. ... Why don't people get angry anymore?"
The reason, I'd say, is that we've been blowing poor bastards in dusty villages to bits and stealing their resources (when we're not subjecting them to conditions of slave labor) for so long that it is hard to imagine things being different.
So naturally we carry on a usual when a new lot of peasants gets blown up, see their kids with arms or legs torn off, guts hanging out. Brains scrambled by shrapnel.
If it's not insane, there's no question it's obscene.
But you have to remember that if the wogs happened to be on top, they'd no doubt see us blown to kingdom come without giving it a second thought.
No, they'd see us blown to kingdom come and give a derisive cheer.
Margaret Thatcher used to maintain that running the country depended on pretty much the same principles as running an efficient household.
Not so.
At home, if necessary, you might ask your neighbor to lend you a cup of sugar. But if your running the country and it seems necessary, you hit your neighbor over the head with a lead pipe and steal whatever you can. The only thing you have to worry about is that your neighbor survives the attack, figures out what happened and fire-bombs your house.
The problem with democracy is that you cannot have a sensible discussion about these things. Once you admit to killing kids for oil (I estimate the cost at roughly one Muslim per $4.5 million in oilco profits) some folks get emotional and say you shouldn't do it.
Her's where the media come in.
Their job is to get the home crowd to understand that they're the victims. You know, 911 (while the USAF stood down), 7/7 (when four guys with return tickets, and families to return to blew themselves up while Visor Consultants were running an exercise involving "simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning,"), the liquid bomb plot, a scheme to slaughter countless thousands of innocent travellers with tubes of Brylcream and a pinch of salt.
It's the media's job to tell folks we're killing kids in far away places for the good of the natives: we're bringing them democracy, repairing their potholes, bringing them the inestimable gifts of girls' education, same-sex marriage and publicly funded abortion clinics. So just keep changing the channel, folks; walk the dog and, for God's sake, don't stop shopping.
As for Bush's war policy being insane, take a look at the news. The Iraq war will have paid off with the passage by the Iraq Parliament of the law handing over the oil to western oilcos.
The trick to launching the next phase is to nuke Iran without it looking like naked aggression. Nukes are essential because the American Government cannot raise the troops without fear of a domestic revolt.
But it all seems to be going smoothly. Iranian President Ah'm Mad for Jihad must be an American agent. First he denies the holocaust, which is like saying the world is round when everyone knows for a legally certifiable fact that it's flat. Then his government makes it clear that it will take only a little needling and they'll explode a dirty bomb over Tel Aviv or some such thing -- all the justification necessary for a massive US/Israeli assault.
A few Iranian army divisions wiped out, the odd town and government complex turned to glass and the Iranians will be ready to fold. At least, that's the idea. Then your looking at much greater oilco profits and a strong dollar as people forget about abandoning the dollar as an oil currency.
So if it's us or the Muzzies (or the chinks, or whoever happens to threaten our interest) on top dishing out the depleted uranium, what's your choice?
Or is there another option. Could there be a world of brotherly love and kindness, of truth and hope for all mankind?
Not, evidently, in the world ruled by George W. Bush.
Happy New Year.
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