Ed wrote:
> Perhaps we do need another war, not a little one like Iraq or
> Afghanistan, but a big one like WWII, which brought an end to the
> Great Depression. Where oh where are Hitler or Stalin when we need
> them?
Well, Ed, if the Christian "dominionists", the ultra-right, the
extreme Zionists inside and outside Israel, the apocalyptically and
eschatologically oriented, along with the essentially amoral (or
psychopathic) denizens of the financial and defense establishments and
the notional 0.01% somehow get it just right and get on a roll, the
USA might be our best candidate for a unilateral declaration of a
Greater Global Prosperity Sphere, a Universal Reich of American
Righteousness.
There are those who sneer scornfully at any analysis emitting the
slightest bouquet of "conspiracy" yet the newspapers and the net report
daily on more or less overt conspiracies. ALEC and PNAC and its heirs
come to mind. Lobbying in its present manifestation is
institutionalized conspiracy. You don't have to make a case for
complicity in 9/11 or an organized plan to dynamite the Dome of the
Rock. The frothing nutters and their unreadable polychrome, mixed-font
web pages make a fine distraction from those determined to project
national (and supra-national financial) power globally, who have
access to positions of influence and money.
Maybe I just have too little historical perspective -- I'm weak on the
details of political history and I've only lived through 70 years of
it myself -- but I have the feeling that several aspects of the
contemporary world are unprecedented. Granted that human cognition,
passions and character probably haven't changed in centuries or even
millennia, I nevertheless think that the Enlightenment approach of
reasoned discourse, common civility and respect and so on are
threatened in new ways.
Indeed, the single sentence from a PNAC paper,
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.
has been realized in 9/11 with results for the American and global
polity unimaginable a few decades ago. [1] Wherever more changes of
the same kind are being imagined, promoted or implemented, there lie
seeds of a new global, quasi-totalitarian hegemony.
Back to Ed's comment: I really do not look forward with eager
anticipation to a new, job-creating conflict between the some alliance
of the USA with developed-world adherents and The Rest of the Globe.
http://www.gahanwilson.com/ithinkiwonweb.jpg
- Mike
[1] You can't fly from England to Canada without getting approval from
US authorities? No explanation or appeal possible if approval is
withheld? Are you kidding? Regrettably, not.
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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