In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World
Trade Center and Pentagon, Americans have displayed their true colors of
jingoism, a militaristic spirit of nationalism. Similarly, it was witnessed
how the people of Iraq rallied in support of their President, Saddam Hussein,
after the U.S. bombed to death 250,000 Iraqis, and continued devastation
of that country with collateral damage of 1 million dead women and children.
Hence, people rallying in support of their government and representatives
is a common phenomenon when a country is attacked by an outsider. The U.S.
has been foremost in the world extending foreign policy of free-market economy,
to the extent of undermining other countries cultures and ideologies expressed
as their way of life. Such conflicts inevitably positions the U.S. as the
centerpiece, the bulls-eye for international political dissent, as indicated
by demonstrations against the U.S. controlled IMF, WTO and World Bank conferences.
The attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon did not occur in a vacuum.
The people that carried out the attacks were not blind followers or robots
with an irrational hatred of the U.S. peoples. Rather, this attack was part
of an overall blowback to U.S. imperialist policy in support of zionist Israel
and opposition to fundamentalist Islam.
There are essentially three primary world ideologies or world views:
the capitalist free-market economy/democracy; the socialist production economy;
and Islamic theocratic government, of which has been in competition for many
decades. However, in the last 20 years the socialist economies has been severely
subverted and co-opted by free-market economies, the ideals of American style
democracy. This isolated, for the most part, Islamic theocratic ideology
and system of government as the principle target of the U.S. in its quest
for world hegemony. This reality of competing world views and economies is
further complicated due to religious underpinning of beliefs that motivates
actions, especially as they are expressed by U.S. and Western European christianity
and Israel zionist judaism in opposition to Islam. From the struggles of
the Crusades to the present confrontation, the struggle for ideological supremacy
reigns, as the faithful continue to proselytize in the name of the Supreme
Being.
When geopolitics are combined with religious fervor in the character
of nationalist identity and patriotism, rational and logical thinking is
shoved aside as matters of the moment takes historical precedents. It has
often been said that "Truth Crush to the Earth Will Rise Again". Since truth
is relative to ones belief, can it be safely said that America has reaped
what it has sowed? The American truth of capitalist christian democracy and
its imperialist hegemonic aspirations has crushed both socialist and Islamic
world views. It has extended its avaricious tentacles as the world police
and economic harbinger of all that is beneficent, in stark denial of its
history as a purveyor of genocides, slavery and colonial violence.
The U.S. was the first to use biological-germ warfare on people when
it distributed blankets infected with smallpox to Native Americans; it has
refused to apologize for Afrikan slavery acknowledging it engaged in a crime
against humanity requiring reparations; it is the first and only country
to use the atomic bomb on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and intern
thousands of Japanese and Italians in this country; it used carpet bombing
and defoliates against the peoples of Vietnam; it has initiated embargoes,
coup d'etats and assassinations against those it opposes, while propping-up
right-wing military dictators; as well as continued military bombing of Vieques.
In essence, the U.S. governments hegemonic goals has created the ire of millions
of people throughout the world. While domestically, racial profiling, police
killing and mass incarceration of Black and Brown people has eroded patriotic
sentiments in opposition to white supremacy.
As America weeps and laments its loss, the public find itself joining
the torn ranks of those whose heartaches beat opposing U.S. greed and international
profiteering. The American public acquiesce to U.S. international folly has
cause them to feel the economic pains of those who live daily in poverty.
Indeed, Americans should brace for years of economic uncertainty, where the
American ideal of freedom and liberty will resemble plight of those who live
under the right-wing dictatorships the U.S. has supported. The tyranny suffered
by others in the world as a result of U.S. imperialism, has come full circle
to visit this country with the wrath of the U.S. own mechanization. Since
the U.S. taught and trained right-wing military dictators in the School of
the Americas, including the CIA training of Osama bin Laden in the Afghanistan
proxy war against the Russians, it will be this same kind of terrorist activist
that will be unleashed on American soil, as El-Hajj Malik Shabazz stated
after the assassination of John Kennedy, a matter of the chicken coming home
to roost. Therefore, American civil liberties and human rights are being
garrotted by the yoke of the right-wing in the name of national security.
The legalization of U.S. fascism was initiated with the war against political
dissent (Cointelpro); the war against organized crime (RICO laws); the war
against illegal drugs (plethora of drug laws) and now culminating in the
war against terrorism with the American Joint Anti-Terrorist Taskforce and
Office of Home Security, further extending police, FBI and CIA powers to
undermine domestic civil liberties and human rights.
The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, recently stated that
the U.S. need to create a new language in defining how to combat terrorism.
This Orwellian propaganda in the media espouses the U.S. is venturing in
a new type of warfare to defend the American way of life. However, what this
double-speak propagates as a long-term and sustained initiative against terrorism
is essentially a way of embellishing and enlarging U.S. counter-insurgency
activity it has been engaged in since the advent of the Green Berets, Rangers,
Delta Force and Navy Seals. The U.S. has been involved in counter-insurgency
activity in Afrika, Latin America and Asia for decades. But due to the September
11, 2001, attack on U.S. soil, the government has seized the opportunity
to offensively pursue left-wing revolutionaries and Muslim insurgents throughout
the world. This U.S. military action extends and substantiates its position
as the international police.
Since the establishment of the Trilateral Commission that initiated
the process for the development of one world government, the U.S. has broaden
its capacity to impose and enforce its will on oppressed peoples globally.
The FBI and CIA has been operating in Europe, Afrika, Asia and Latin America
establishing the long arm of U.S. law and order. Its bases of operations
have conducted surveillance, investigations to arrest, prosecute or neutralize
left-wing revolutionaries or Muslim insurgents. As the U.S. consolidates
its political and economic influence throughout the world, it will seek to
protect its overall hegemonic imperialist goals. After the Gulf War, and
the air (bombing) campaign in Yugoslavia, the U.S. has employed its military
might to ensure its foreign policy are achieved.
Because NATO has evolved into a European military entity that Russia
is seeking to join, today, the U.S. has positioned itself beyond the mission
of NATO. The U.S. now concentrates its military might in opposing Islamic
countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan, Philippines, etc.) and
those the U.S. deem as rogue nations (North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, etc.).
The new military initiatives will be directed to towards Southeast Asia as
the secondary target, as it continues to direct the Middle East conflict
to preserve its oil investments and zionist interest. As the U.S. expand
its imperialist military mission, as seen with committing military troops
in Uzbekistan to also protect oil interest in the Caspian Sea, it has sought
to redefine itself by targeting what it identify as the terrorist thereat
wherever in the world it might exist. Hence, with the employment of conventional
warfare combined with counter-insurgency tactical activities, the U.S. has
pronounced itself as the military guardian of the world.
Although, the U.S. states its actions are in its self-interest, in
terms of what is euphemistically defined as defending the free world, the
truth of the matter is this action is a prelude to evolving one world government
with the U.S. as its governing authority. Once the Peoples Republic of China
becomes a full member of the WTO, and North Korea and Vietnam has been compromised,
with Russia becoming an ally of NATO, the U.S. political-military influence
in the world will be consolidated. The U.S. geopolitical strategy is not
confined to the present crisis in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001,
attack and targeting Osama bin Laden as the world's nemesis. Rather, the
U.S. strategy is to preserve its capacity to establish one world government
as originally envisioned by the Trilateral Commission.
Nonetheless, there are some serious obstacles to this hegemonic goal,
of which the world of fundamentalist Islam has become the principle target.
Here, it should be noted that Islam condemns suicide or the mass killings
of women, children and non-combatant males. Yet, the U.S., Israel, western
Europe, Russia, India and China all view Islam as the enemy. Although, there
are over 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, the current alliance of economic
interest headed by the U.S., are united to vanquish what they consider the
growing menace of fundamentalist Islam. It is with this understanding of
U.S. geopolitics one is able to comprehend why the U.S. has redefine its
military mission, as opposition to globalization and U.S. imperialism metamorph
into a political struggle without borders or territorial imperatives.
The ideological struggle between capitalist free-market economy and
Islamic theocratic determinates has exploded into an international conflagration
of insurgency with the potential of initiating World War III. The Islamic
fundamentalist movements throughout the world has the potential to test the
U.S. military, political and economic resolve as the world's leader and authority
of an one world government. With over 1.2 billion adherents, Islam has become
a formidable foe to contend with for ideological supremacy in the world's
geopolitics. Even without discussing the religious (moral and ethics) aspects
that motivates the geopolitics of Islam in opposition to U.S. imperialist
hegemony, the call for Jihad/Holy War against the U.S. presents a serious
threat that could precipitate WW-III. Therefore, the U.S. find it necessary
to redefine its military mission, develop new language to codify warfare
and legitimize its international political and economic purpose. Yet, many
of the world's oppressed peoples' have already experienced U.S. military
counter-insurgency tactics (Ethiopia, Somalia, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile,
Congo, etc.), including parts of the Islamic world. No matter how or why
the U.S. attempts to persuade Americans that it is entering a new type of
warfare, in reality it is more of the same, only extending the military arena
to further protect its authority to establish one world government.
However, the U.S. is not the homogeneous country that people are deluded
into believing exist. Rather, the U.S. has been held together due its ability
to exploit the world's resources and distribute (unequally) the profits amongst
its citizens with its culture of conspicuous consumption. But, the recent
attack on the U.S., and its aftermath may very well lead to the untangling
and unraveling of the U.S. fabric as has been witnessed with the USSR and
Yugoslavia. In understanding this true history of U.S. imperialism, outside
and within its borders, essentially tells a story of why U.S. imperialism
has been and will continue to be attacked.
Ultimately, the U.S. will eventually find itself at war with itself,
as the ideology of a free democratic society will be found to be a big lie.
This is especially disconcerting as greater restrictions on civil and human
rights are made into law eroding the First and Fourth Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution. As during the Vietnam conflict, internal contradictions of
racism, poverty and inequality will be exacerbated as a result of the U.S.
military campaign and domestic undermining of civil and human rights. It
is expected that strife in America will eventually become violent dissolving
any semblance of the illusion of America the Beautiful. In anticipation of
U.S. progressive activist opposing this claimed war against terrorism, the
federal government will pass new laws to severely restrict protest, demonstrations
and dissent. In the '60s, U.S. progressive activists evolved the slogan "Bring
the War Home!" - the question is what will be the slogan this time, now that
the war has been brought home?
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