How’s this for crazytalk.
Given:
- The USA is now revealing itself as a fascist state. The ’08 Hillary vs. Rice election would be the ultimate example of how fascism co-opts Liberal ideals to attract the Left. Nevermind they are both fascist mouthpieces – they’re WOMEN! And many here just got the urge to say that fact would be more momentous than the fact that we would be choosing Fascist A or Fascist B.
- The US gov’t sees it’s own people as a primary threat to it’s current policy course (that darned veil of Democracy is a pain sometimes). This means that, long term, we are going to see more and more policy that does not represent the will of the people. Why else would you have to spy on everyone everywhere?
- The re-deployment of resources toward Security vs. Defense creates an unending opportunity to loot the taxpayer’s wallet and make another administration pay the bill. Defense is an achievable state. This is why the military industrial complex doesn’t like the business as much as Security, a psychological state that can easily be prevented from ever being reached, regardless of spending. The is just a point where your defense is good enough, and many were of the opinion that we had reached it. Acting out of fear of limited profits, the corporate end of the complex demanded change. They got both the short-term boost of two wars, and the longterm smorgasbord of the DHS.
- This is not a conflict of cultural values. It is a conflict for resource access stability. Yet, it is still a crusade. The purpose of our presence in the Middle East is indeed messianic change. (Perhaps It’s all just a question of who, if anyone, actually needs to be Saved.) The method is not going to continue to be country-by-country invasion, the paradigm presented almost universally as the method of approach towards the region. This is false. The method is to create chaos (lack of security for populace that ‘requires’ our military presence), divide (promote sectarian violence) and conquer (clamp down on infrastructure and revenues, let the fighting go on in the neighborhoods). Does anyone wonder where all the missing oil and oil revenue is going? The divisions were already there: Shi’ah vs Sunni, Iraq v Iran, and Arab vs. Non-Arab Muslim. The first step to work is splitting the Sunni and the Shi’ah. In case you haven’t noticed, our side is Arab and Shi’ah for now. The next step is (new) Iraq versus Iran. And once the new arrangements we make for resources start drying up, look for us in Indonesia (oil), even more involved in the Philippines(transport) and Africa. All Muslim areas. Conflict of cultures it’s not, but it sure will look and act like one hell of a crusade. Why does everyone living on top of the reall sweet stuff have to be a Muslim?
- The American populace is not capable of understanding events such as these quickly enough to make changes that will effect outcome. This may or may not be our fault. There’s the problem of media control and government secrecy. But in a country where cities can be paralyzed because of an immigration bill, but an illegal war for profit gets precious few on the streets, there is little reason for the powers that be to feel threatened or to change not just this policy, but the general approach to the world beyond our borders.
- This present conflict, the Muslim civil war, stoked and promoted and shepherded by the West (remember Britain and Spain and Italy helped when it counted) is designed to weaken our intended prey as a method to exert final control over their resources. It is being done to soften an opponent, not to liberate or democratize anything. We care not which line of descent owns the rights to ‘Real’ Islam. It is being done with an ultimate East vs. West war in mind. We’ll call that future America’s mini-armageddon or maybe even Cold War II : Crescent Moon Boogaloo.
- It is NOT true that it is necessary to fight these people now to limit the damage to us during the unavoidable future mini-armageddon. The Bushies would like us to think that this East v. West conflict is inevitable (they are sooo good at predicting the future), so we have to engage in it now, pre-emptively, so it never becomes a real Armaggedon. Well that sort of makes sense, right? The fact is, the future war is only inevitable because our leaders have decided that through this conflict lies the only path on which THEIR version of OUR country can survive. Perhaps the oil men are just scared of getting into a new business. Perhaps they know stuff we don’t. Perhaps they are so jaded and politicized and controlled that don’t actually have the capacity for Hope, positive goals or progress. Only destruction and fear and easy money.
- It is possible to turn this conflict into an opportunity, despite the irreversibility of our course (once the Shi’ah v Sunni war starts ‘Bigtime’, our job is all but done). Some must work in denial of this probable future, incase it is somehow avoided, but some must labor under it’s weight as if it is a known fact.
So.. What does a decent Secular Humanist do in a world where generational violence has been started by evil, evil men and good men stand aside and call it a ‘mistake’ while extremist forces on two sides of an avoidable conflict are lining the world up against one another, demanding your personal resources and that of your children to finance their games? You are already playing and paying for it all, so I say you have to play to win.
Let’s over-simplify WWII to give an example. The British-German relationship was the real crux of the war in the beginning, the Socialists/Communists but pawns in the political wrangling in the build up to war. WWII was about wannabe fascist states duking it out for control of Europe, it’s trade and it’s colonies, regardless of who started it. This conflict was set up to split the colonial world up between them, as the Cold War eventually did split the world between US and Soviet factions. Only problem is that the US and Soviets had other plans, and the rest is history. When the old European powers were weakened, we stepped into the power vacuum, et voila. Secular Humanists need ‘Other Plans’ such as these.
To play the Big Game on the same terms as the Bushies, we essentially need play the role the US and Soviets in European WWII. Deploy resources to profit from the conflict (see USA, Prescott Bush), re-invest those profits into a (perhaps stateless, or so remotely based as to be near stateless) military force capable of stepping in and ‘King Making’ at a point in the mini-armageddon where both sides are critically stressed (see USSR in WWII and recently in Kosovo). We need to prepare for what we know is coming in order to dictate the terms of the outcome. I fear that it may be the best case scenario that we can hope for as the important parts of the world are increasingly run by extremist, fatalist (heaven is a-comin’), bellicose war mongers who treat their own populace like the machines in the Matrix, sucking our efforts’ produce into the feultanks of their machinisms, in endless pursuit of the self-same Security that they themselves destroy.. They are a bunch of crazed Milo Minderbinders, selling eggs to themselves for profit.
We CAN watch it all go down from the sidelines and hope that either the Judeo-Christian fascists or the Islam-o-fascists turn out to benevolent rules in a world of declining resourses, with nature run amock and our last drops of Oil wasted on War and destruction instead of development and sustaining ourselves longterm. Heaven is a comin’. Will you get in or do you need to be Saved, too?
Everytime a Tinfoil Hat wearer is eventually proven to be right, she or he probably doesn’t think it a victory.
