When Push and Shove Collide
While the village idiot of Crawford, Texas is flying around Asia on a free (to him) sightseeing tour of ego-bolstering proportions, the dogs of War are nipping at the heels of the few congressmen brave enough to demand change. The Big Dog, of course, is (the) Dick Cheney, who intends to continue to bombast any detractors. As a one-man Ministry of Propaganda, he has little choice. The Party bet all its cookies on Iraq. They forces through their agenda with great relish and fervor, and everyone involved knows this sad truth: There’s no going back.
Any group who embraces the hard line, aggressive politics characteristic of the Bush administration must do so by burning many metaphorical bridges. Now, their collective backs are against the raging torrents of a wide, deep river of discontent, verily foaming with distrust, and all the bridges used to get there are blackened stumps protruding from the rising waters. In this political era of recriminations and regrouping, some truths can no longer be avoided. To wit:
“The flaws in the intelligence are plain enough in hindsight, but any suggestion that prewar information was distorted, hyped or fabricated by the leader of the nation is utterly false,” Mr. Cheney said. “Senator John McCain put it best: ‘It is a lie to say that the president lied to the American people.’ ”
I agree with that. The President did no lie to the American people. His keepers did. George W-is for-Wimp Bush only did what he was told, only said what others told him to say. That’s George’s secret; he believes what he says, and he’ll provide a good showing because of this. That the information fed to the empty figurehead of the Republican Party (heil!) is erroneous does nothing to deter the earnest, shameless delivery of untruths to the public. The evil troika of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Cheney are the liars; Mr. Bush is the fall guy.
So while the visage of our Cowboy-in-Chief is galloping around as far away as his handlers can send him, the real work needs addressing. This is stuff of subtlety and nerve, of which our Favorite Shrubbery has little, and so it falls to the Presidential Insurance Policy (would you want Cheney in the top job?) to manifest his ire at all truth seekers, and in so doing, spin a web of lies to reinforce the aging web already in place.
“The terrorists believe that by controlling an entire country,” he said, “they will be able to target and overthrow other governments in the region, and to establish a radical Islamic empire that encompasses a region from Spain, across North Africa, through the Middle East and South Asia, all the way to Indonesia. They have made clear, as well, their ultimate ambitions: to arm themselves with weapons of mass destruction, to destroy Israel, to intimidate all Western countries and to cause mass death in the United States.”
Sounds threatening, doesn’t it? Yet America believes that by controlling an entire country, we will be able to overthrow other governments in the region, and to establish a radical Democratic Empire that encompasses much of the same areas Mr. Cheney mentions as well as all of Europe, the two Americas, and much of the Pacific Rim. We have made it clear, as well, our ultimate ambition to create a United States of Earth in the form of economic slavery and American dominance of all markets throughout the world.
That, my friends, is the goal of the New American Century, as has been hinted at for the past sixty years, since the end of World War 2. Many of the administrations critics have many of the same goals, overall. Only the methods are debated. As a whole the entire establishment of our so-called Two Party System is in agreement about American Global Domination in one form or another. The Cold War taught us that economics, utilized properly, can be just as effective a weapon as a cluster bomb. The term “corporate warfare” is not always a metaphor. In light of this it’s easy to see our great nation has been involved in some kind of warfare constantly for the past century.
And we, the enablers, the blind, self-absorbed and overweight, hyper-consumers of America, look the other way while our nation dominates the world. Some of us think this is a good thing, but most of the world disagrees. I’d like to end this rant with one obvious point: we’re grossly outnumbered; China alone has over one billion people. When push and shove collide, as they inevitable will, we cannot possible win against such odds.