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I hate to say Bush is right
about anything, but ...
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
January 15, 2007
I hate to say I think Bush is right about anything, |
but when he
points out that folks are going to use control of critical resources
against the United States, he is stating an obvious truth.
Face it. We "the people" have been in collusion with a predatory
(and massively incompetent) military cooperating with greedy US
corporations for more than a century. General Smedley Butler put this
plainly in his War Is A Racket booklet.
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Tables turn. US military intervention in China to support the opium
trade; mass slaughter in the Philippines; the invasion of Mexico; the
war against the Spanish for control and exploitation of their
colonial possessions including Cuba; wars against popular national
movements in Viet Nam, Nicaragua, Angola, Greece, and so many other
places; the destruction of numerous democratic governments to
facilitate exploitation by US corporations including, but not limited
to, Guatemala, Iran, Chile; and so many other criminal acts have all
been weighing the balance pan of justice deeply out of balance since
there have been essentially no negative consequences for the US public.
While we in the US have been wallowing in a sickening excess of
material wealth, the rest of the world has been left to starve, or worse.
The rest of the world frequently find themselves faced with attack,
with being sprayed with poisons, having their water, electrical and
industrial base destroyed (conventionally referred to as being bombed
back to the stone age), and most recently having their soil
permanently contaminated with lethal uranium weapons. "Real Politic"
will need to be replaced by real neighborliness if we, as a people,
wish to rejoin the rest of the world as a partner rather than a
perpetrator.
The persistent nuclear blackmail directed against any and all
competitors should be expected to have induced a tremendous urge
toward revenge on the part of the other 95% of the world population
once the threat of US military attack fades. And that is just the
history of abuse of power. Threats and incomprehensible
obstructionism (think about Kyoto) continue at an accelerating rate
as the regime in Washington finds that ever more violent threats are
needed to preserve power for US corporations.
And it is not just US corporations any more. The US government is
now captive to multinational corporations who seek to use US military
power to enhance their dominance of the world economy. So here we
are, holding the bag for these folks who could not care less what
happens to the US citizenry. They have mobile capital, while we are stuck
here in the "homeland." They can run, while we have to stay and accept the
consequences of their actions.
If the US becomes inhospitable due to retaliation by the rest of the
world, these corporate criminals will just move somewhere else and
buy assets in currencies other than the US dollar. In fact, evidence
indicates that this is already happening.
The US population is going
to end up holding a massive debt that did noting to improve life
here, a debt that was only incurred to serve the interest and obscenely
inflate the wealth of the corporate criminals who are in the process
of scuttling the US economy to squeeze out the last drops of blood.
The dollar will sink like a stone. What did we think would happen to
a people who tolerate a banana republic that sought to rule the world?
So yes I hear President Bush when he says that loss of control of resources is
going to result in economic blackmail. That is the least we can
expect, after participating as a silent partners with the corporate
bosses who have raped, pillaged and destroyed the world to amass
great wealth while contemptuously distributing crumbs to those who of
us who have paid with the lives of loved ones and neighbors for
these petty payoffs.
What goes around comes around. We should
consider ourselves lucky to eventually suffer anything less than
complete annihilation at the hands of the rest of the world for the
crimes America has participated in.
The metaphor that comes to mind is the plight of folks trapped in a
fortress as a band of criminals fight a last stand with an outraged
populace. The sensible thing to do would be for the ordinary folks
in the fortress to overwhelm the criminals and turn them over to the
outraged folks surrounding the fortress in hopes of being spared
their wrath. If we don't do that, if we lack the courage, skill or energy to see that
justice is done to the criminals in our midst, we had just better
prepare ourselves for the worst.
As a first step, perhaps we should try to reinstitute real democracy
in this country by driving off the money changers and the
professional liars in the mass media and the "public relations
industry." Frankly, in order to be motivated in the right direction,
we need to understand things are going to get bad because precisely
because we deserve what is coming to us for what we have allowed to
happen in our name.
Things are only going to get even worse the
longer we tolerate the management of our political life by money.
The longer we allow amoral gangster elements flying the false flag of
"corporate leadership" to run the country, the worse the consequences will be.
Of course
the gangsters will not give up the golden goose of world domination
without a bloody fight, but failing to eject them will eventually
cause the blood price to be much, much larger than what will be
needed if we confront them now.
The golden rule works on the international stage as well as on the
local one. If we fail to treat others as we would like to be treated,
we have no-one other than ourselves to blame for the eventual result.
How about we just decide to develop a spine, and replace personal
greed and gangster capitalism with a dedication to moral, ethical and
principled action? That might work.
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What goes around comes around.
We should
consider ourselves lucky to eventually suffer anything less than
complete annihilation at the hands of the rest of the world for the
crimes America has participated in.
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