And it's not just the oil and gas, either.
Ultimately, the war on terror is a public relations fig leaf designed to conceal Washington’s attempt to rule the world. It’s impossible to make sense of goings-on around the globe without some grasp of how seemingly random acts of violence and terror fit within the broader and more comprehensive geopolitical strategy to create a new unipolar world order, to crush all emerging rivals, and to extend US full-spectrum-dominance across the planet.Not like this is conspiracy theory, either. "Full-spectrum dominance" is publicly declared US foreign policy and the mission of the Department of "Defense.
BTW, while I am opposed to war and war-profiteering, imperialism, colonialism, etc. as libertarian, I understand as realists that countries act like male adolescents with an excess of testosterone. That is just the level of development of humanity at this stage of evolution.
Where I take umbrage is representing this adolescent mayhem as being rational and morally justifiable based on spreading liberalism. It is rank hypocrisy and it is giving liberalism a bad name, just as the hijacking of socialism by totalitarian communism gave socialism a bad name. It is the same thing by the same kind of people.
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Destroying Syria to Create Sunnistan
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Yeah but Tom there are always better ways than others to achieve the goal...
I see a BIG problem with the way US is trying to achieve those goals...
So I would caution people on the right who may think: "we just have to get past the Obama admin and get the GOPers back in there!" ... I see a lot of problems with that approach too... even with a GOP admin there still remains a basic problem with current military doctrine/military tactics... which is why you see all the chaos and it appears to make no sense...
Obama in one of his recent speeches said "if somebody has a better idea, come in and I want to hear it!" and NOBODY is stepping up imo.... so he's right in this regard... I dont see anybody out there with a better plan/approach...
The military has some BIG PROBLEMS these days in its leadership.... Mike warned them about this probably now 10 years ago when he presented at the Army War College...
Peterson apostle David Walker has been making presentations here at the USNA over the years I have first hand evidence ... Former JCS Mike Mullin is iirc actually ON the Peterson payroll....
so we have MAJOR problems now in the US military.... that aint going away any time soon either...
The major problems that the US faces are problems of its own creation since WWII and especially since the fall of the Berlin wall and the dissolution of the USSR.
As I said, this adolescent nation has an excess of testosterone that is leading to major issues morally, rationally, and pragmatically.
The US has turned into a rogue state and it is now the most feared nation globally.
Because exceptionalism.
This issue is a consequence of the level of collective consciousness of the nation that is reflected in the culture and institutional arrangements and manifested in the leadership.
Being in America, most Americans are clueless about this and how bad it is getting. It is really, really bad, and no good is going to come from it. "The sins of the fathers" and all that, i.e., group karma.
Tom c'mon "we're out of money!" is about as broke-dick as you can get....
this is going the other way ie not too much testosterone but not enough... viagra needed pronto imo...
There's always plenty of munnie for armaments. The difference in the size of the defense appropriation is over goodies, not anything actually necessary.
The issues in the defense budget are what the generals want and what the congress wants them to have, which is a function of in whose districts the arms manufacturers are located. But they generally agree that the higher the tech (and therefore the more expensive) the better.
I see a BIG problem with the way US is trying to achieve those goals...
Good! Why would anyone want the Empire to achieve its goals? Personally, I hope Russia achieves its goals in the Middle East, and certainly not the NATO-Saudi-Israel Axis. The world doesn't need more NATO global hegemony, more Wolfowitz doctrine, more pushing for "Greater Israel," etc.
Too much testosterone and 'machismo' in society give rise to asocial behaviour: every-man-for-himself, libertarianism, social Darwinism, radical individualism, death cults pop culture, gun fetishism, etc. All those social diseases that are insanely common in USA are an excess of testosterone and Neanderthal genes (j/k on that, but you get the point).
The image the rest of the world has on USA is of an incredible uncivilized sick nation obsessed with violence and driven by false morals and commonplace stupidity and hypocrite memes ("democracy", "freedom", "free markets", "patriotism" etc. etc. etc.)
Personally, I think testosterone has nothing to do with it. It's about the will to power on the part of a US-Euro-Zionist elite. People like Brzezinski and Rockefeller are very candid about this. Are they psychopaths? Possibly, but they believe they have the right perspective, which is that the(ir) banks and corporations should rule the world. The Zionists, in turn, believe they have a messianic destiny. Both of these ambitions can and do cooperate quite well, at least for the time being.
'We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.'
(James Warburg in 1950 to the US Senate
'In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. It will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion’ to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.
Of course, for political as well as administrative reasons, some of these specialized arrangements should be brought into an appropriate relationship with the central institutions of the U.N. system, but the main thing is that the essential functions be performed.
The question is whether this more modest approach can do the job. Can it really bring mankind into the twenty-first century with reasonable prospects for peace, welfare and human dignity? The argument thus far suggests it better had, for there seems to be no alternative. But the evidence also suggests some grounds for cautious optimism.'
(Richard N. Gardner, The Hard Road To World Order, Foreign Affairs April 1974 issue, pages 558-559)
“The nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.”
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era (New York: Viking Press, 1973), p. 246.
“People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.”
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. ”
“This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept.”
“The Trilateral Commission is international and is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power – political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical.”
Goldwater, Barry, With No Apologies, (Morrow, 1979), p. 280
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Henry Kissinger reduced the powers of the Federal Reserve to one line: “Who controls money controls the world.”
Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, who served for 18+ years in his position, was asked by political talk show host Jim Lehrer: “What should be the proper relationship between a chairman of the Fed and the president of the United States?”
“Well, first of all, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, and that means basically that there is no other agency of government (including the executive office) which can overrule actions that we take,” Greenspan responded matter-of-factly. “So long as that is in place… then, what the relationships are don’t frankly matter.”
In light of the above statements, it is safe to say that it is not US Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama who holds the reins of real power in America, but rather Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Fed.
Newsweek magazine proudly announced that Bernanke was the “fourth most powerful person in the world,” behind Barack Obama, Hu Jintao and Nicolas Sarkozy, but ahead of Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin (fourth, fifth and sixth place in the Newsweek power list went to central bankers, Bernanke, Jean-Claude Trichet (EU) and Masaaki Shirakawa (Japan), as opposed to national leaders)!
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"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." : Samuel P. Huntington
At the same time, you are quite right,Ignacio. US culture has degenerated enormously. Much of it has been quite deliberate, but it is largely a taboo subject. An important incluence is that of "cultural Marxism," originating from the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt, later exported to US universities, and exploding in the 60's. But to say so risks incurring the wrath of the left, charges of "anti-Semitism", and so on. By now, the population is all but entirely captured by the various intellectual threads and institutional apparatus constituting the "matrix" of propaganda, which has created mass confusion, a "babel" of impassioned opinions:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. (Yeats)
Personally, I think testosterone has nothing to do with it.
To clarify, I was using this as a metaphor likening the US as recently founded country coming into its own on the world with stage with adolescent behavior. I did not mean it literally. It would be similar to saying that the US is throwing its weight around, or that the US has a big head.
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