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The key to understanding the impossibility of Obama's
dilemma is that he is trying to defend a Global Empire with American blood and
treasure.
Obviously Obama will not articulate this reality, and thus his plan entails
seminal incongruities, which are seen by a few, but sensed by the wider
audience of Americans.
Obama has tried to gloss over these incongruities by using the historical
techniques of Empires' salesmen --- he has engendered fear by characterizing
the enemy as a "spreading cancer", or "falling dominos' like communism --- but
the real spreading cancer is the Global Empire that hired him to guilefully
defend it with American blood and treasure.
Historically, the salesmanship of Empire has always been based on promising the
domestic population that they will share the "spoils of war', or the "safety of
winning', in return for fighting, and paying, for imperialist adventures.
But Obama, although a consummate salesman, will encounter increasing resistance
from the American populus because of the unique incongruities of fighting and
paying for a Global Empire with domestic dollars and dead, and without any
benefits actually accruing to the American public.
Obama's dilemma in selling and defending the escalation of war first in
Afghanistan, and then in Central Asia and the greater Middle East, is the same
as his dilemma regarding his escalating defense of the very same Global Empire
on Wall Street ---- that all the benefits are privatized and all the costs are
socialized.
Unfortunately for Obama (and his paymasters), but fortunately for we average
middle/working-class Americans (and all citizens of the world), the confluence
of symptoms pointing to Global Empire as the single, hidden, and metastasizing
cause of the real cancer is now becoming increasingly apparent.
When the traditional "nationalist empires' of the 20th century (British, French, German, Soviet) misled their homeland's people, by promising benefits and security in exchange for fighting and paying for empire, the pride, prizes, and protection of reaching "Empire Status' at least initially were apparent. This was also true for the late 20th century American Empire, even though it was more politely referred to by the consummate propagandist Luce, as just the "American Century" --- since it was the last empire of that century.
But when the American Empire was forcefully morphed into the Global ruling-elite corporate/financial/militarist Empire --- which now controls our country by hiding behind the façade of its two-party "Vichy' sham of democratic government (aided by the equally "Vichy' corporatist media) --- the traditional empire promises of war booty, economic benefits, and homeland security were broken.
As this "shape shifting' of Empire progressed, increasing segments of the American middle/working-class started to notice that shares of those traditional "war spoils' from what they suspected was "their American Empire' were not being shared with the domestic population --- not "trickling down' as another famous propagandist/ spokesman/salesman for empire cynically suggested.
The reason, of course, that the traditional promises and benefit streams of empire were not "trickling down', was that the bonuses of empire status were being increasingly captured by only the top tier elite of American society (which always happens within all empires), but also that the spoils of empire were being uniquely employed to lure other nation-states' ruling-elites into this new and growing form of Global Empire.
Now that the American people are directly feeling the "tip of the lance' of this Global Empire directly in their own faces ---- in the form of; the highest GINI Coefficent of Income Inequality in the world, the continuing "crash' that this Global Empire is causing in its Wall Street lair, the health care oppression at hands of insurance corporations, foreclosures, domestic tyranny and spying, poor education for their kids, plus the increasing number of lives sacrificed to imperialist wars abroad ---- Americans will increasingly (and painfully) recognize that this Global Empire, which Obama will not even name, let alone confront, is the source of all our symptoms and "sorrows' of Empire.
Yes, despite how great a salesman he is, Obama will increasingly find Americans understanding that all their pains and sorrows have one singular, signal, and seminal deep and previously undiagnosed tumor of a cause --- that they are being asked to pay in lives and treasure the socialized costs for rapacious benefits that are accruing only to this new private Global Empire.
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
