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This is all quite depressing, of course.
But many Americans lose sight of the essential truth in
these matters, and when you do that your analysis becomes inaccurate and your politics
become empty.
I discount the commonly-cited notion of "globalists."
Although certainly there are people who fit that term, they are most certainly not
the people creating the serious problems we see in the world. To my mind, that
idea as an explanation for events borders on fantasy, and it indeed effectively
assists those truly responsible.
What I very much do believe is that since 9/11 (and we will
likely never know whether that event in itself was a kind of “FDR and Pearl Harbor”
set-up intended to get things kicked off), the US has been on a violent rampage
to re-shape part of the world's geography.
All these "terror incidents" are blowback from
that rampage, all of them, and I’m sure even leaders such as Theresa May know
that, but they will not say so because they have fully embraced, under duress
or otherwise, America’s cause in its rampage.
The same rampage is the source of all of the refugee
problems plaguing Europe and making Americans fearful. It is a self-inflicted
wound, and one, by the way, for which America in the most cowardly fashion
takes no responsibility, always pretending to be a victim of something horrible
“out there” called Islamic extremism, a vague expression which explains nothing
but does give people a name to clutch.
After all, the history of Christianity is likely the
bloodiest in all of human history (everything from the Crusades and Holy
Inquisition to vast religious wars and massacres and world wars and the
Holocaust to the gifts of Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini – each of those
gentlemen in fact raised as Christians). The Hebrew scriptures are about little
else but bloodshed and hatreds, and contemporary, re-created Israel sits on
other peoples’ land, people who are held without rights or recourse of any kind.
So, calling Muslims especially violent is pretty ridiculous.
The American establishment – its crinkly-faced, lifetime
Senators, the CIA, the Pentagon, major special interest lobbies, and America’s
wealthy elite whom they all serve – decided quite a few years ago to flex its
muscles even more in world affairs.
The reasons were multiple, one being dark fears about the
relative decline of America as shifts in the world’s economy continue. It is a
valid fear, but the truth is there is nothing to be done for it. Countries like
China and Russia and India are now inevitably headed for their place in the
sun.
Neither wars nor Trump’s ‘great again” rhetoric can alter
that reality, any more than you can stop the forces of evolution. Still, the
response by America’s establishment is one of lashing out, intimidating, and
making demands here and there because it is a powerful entity and it is not
ready to accept its relative decline. It is an angry bull elephant lunging at
anything it approaches.
That set of behaviors is almost diametrically opposed to the
behaviors of “globalists,” who, at least as most would define the term, tend to
be rather idealistic, liberal-minded, perhaps even somewhat unrealistic people,
advocates of international trade and standards and agreements. Such people are not
friendly to wars and oppression and, in fact, represent almost the opposite
camp to the American establishment’s pushing aggression and imperial dominance.
Tied in with the American establishment’s fears is the rise
of Neocon influence in America. The Neocons basically have been preaching for
years: “Go ahead, America, you have the power- military, financial, and
diplomatic, so use it to get just what you want. “
It is a somewhat soft version of fascism, if you will, and
it has very much taken hold, notions growing like dragons’ teeth to shape
American policy towards aggression. The great war correspondent and observer of
history, William Shirer, said way back during the Nazi era, which he uniquely
documented, that America’s temperament could allow it easily to go fascist. He
knew what he was talking about, and it has done so.
I use the word “fascism” advisedly since one of the key
aspects of 1930’s fascism was lots of swagger and militarism and readiness to
use aggression to get what you want. If that doesn’t characterize how America
behaves today on the world stage, I just don’t know what does.
Always behind the preaching of the Neocons is the mostly
unspoken agenda of a powerful and aggressive United States being good for
Israel and the hell with anyone else, especially anyone who even somewhat
disagrees. This interest is, of course, diametrically opposed to the long-term
interests of the American people, and for many reasons, especially the fact
that Israel is a pariah state in violation of countless UN resolutions,
international conventions and treaties.
Israel arouses great anger across the region which is why
Israel so opposes democratic governments and likes dealing with absolute
monarchs (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Oman, etc.), unelected governments
(“President” Mahmoud Abbas), and juntas (Egypt). America’s committing both to
supporting these and to attacking others, for Israel’s benefit, puts it on the
wrong side of history and commits it to continued aggression to enforce its
will imposed on many millions of people.
It is easy to see the marriage of convenience between Neocon
advocacy and American policy in the Mideast Wars, all deliberately started by
America, although often given barely-plausible cover stories such as describing
induced and subsidized terror as local revolts and always given lots of empty,
windy rhetoric about fighting terror and getting the bad guys. America has been
both creating a cordon sanitaire around Israel and gaining new authority in
this large and important part of the world.
Despite all the empty words of people like Nikki Haley, in
the end, if you start wars and bomb people, you are the aggressor, and
aggression has consequences.
Every bit of blowback from America’s efforts becomes another
excuse for further reductions of freedom and rights on the home front. After
all, the very governments who created the whole mess – America and its close allies
– have amply demonstrated that they are comfortable with seriously restricting
freedoms. Did you ever hear of aggressors who have much respect for such
things? The police/military mentality is never friendly to rights and freedoms.
Never.
Of course, the shock and disappointment of Trump is that,
after showing promise during the election campaign of being a genuine maverick
who could temper America’s dangerously aggressive course, he has signed up in
blood for the establishment’s cause and is now making more threatening noises
than Obama did.
