Yes, Iraq is certainly a neocon conspired war --- and yes, it is an oil-war.
But more than anything Iraq is a 'war of empire' --- and like all wars of empire, it is an elitist war, an arrogant war, a non-democratic war, a lying and deceitful war, and a war which sticks its finger in the eyes of the average 'working class' population and says, "you don't matter squat, and we elite will ignore you with impunity, slaughter your sons, laugh at your pain and tragedy, and then spit on you with contempt because you don't have the cojones or brains to simply walk away from us and govern yourselves."
Wars of blatant, arrogant, elitist empire are always painful and degrading for the population of the empire waging the war, but they don't always end without victory for anyone.
I genuinely believe that this 'war of empire' in Iraq might well lead to a victory for the American people.
My hope that this 'war of empire' waged by an imperial elite, arrogant and removed from the American people, can possibly lead to a victory is based on what happened in the Afghanistan war ---- No, not the Bush empire's war in Afghanistan, but the Soviet empire's war in Afghanistan!
You see, the arrogant, detached, unaccountable, smug elite of the Soviet empire that watched impassively while tens of thousands of Russian mother's sons were slaughtered and 'bled' in the Soviet imperial forces for the whole decade of the 1980's in a senseless 'war of empire' in Afghanistan was actually more the cause of internal collapse of the Soviet empire than anything that that second-rate actor playing US president ever did to bring about the end of the 'evil empire'.
Once average people, even people in a country like Russia, that is not nominally thought of as a democracy, reach a certain point where they realize in their very souls that the ruling-elite constitute a vainglorious empire, not only beyond the reach of the people, but actually taking pleasure in inflicting pain on the people (and their children) for no reason other than that they contemptuously can, then the people understand that they have nothing left to lose --- and they turn on the empire, and simply refuse to go along.
I fully believe that this November's vote was a vote of the average people of America not only against the specific war in Iraq, but even more so, a resounding vote against all wars of empire --- and even against the very concept of arrogant elite empire in general.
I fully believe that the average American people are giving their government a last chance to represent them and act on their wishes, rather than to continue to act as a detached, arrogant, elitist empire waging senseless war against their wishes. Both faux parties of this imperial elitist government have been put on notice by an enraged public of citizens who formerly thought that they lived in a representative democracy.
When nothing changes --- as it clearly is not changing in this 'war of empire' despised and unsupported by the people ---- then hopefully, the people of America, who have always believed that they lived in much more of a democracy than Russian people ever believed, will, I believe, turn against and away from this elitist empire that has displaced the government Americans always believed was theirs --- and walk away from this empire at least as resoundingly as the Russian people walked away from the disgraced, arrogant and elitist Soviet empire shortly after the Soviet empire's last 'war of empire' in Afghanistan.
That is my hope for a real victory coming from this contemptuous 'war of empire' in Iraq.
Former computer/communications marketing and product strategist. Currently teaching part time in retirement.
So let's just pause a minute and consider what the Glue is that hold this empire's sway over our lives. Or maybe Glue isn't as appropiate an analogy as say,, What is the ring in our nose that the empire hooks it's leash to lead us routinely where we don't want to go? And to say the empire hooks the leash is misleading. Perhaps it is us that willingly hooks the leash and then petulently follow just to avoid the pain that comes from trying to go our own way against the pull of the leash. And all along all you have to do is unhook the leash but then what? There you are. It's the unknown.
Unhook your leash and, oh yea, your puppet strings, and then you just collapse into an inert, helpless heap on the ground. Or do you? Have we ever seen something similar before? What are the Glue, Leash and puppet strings so subtly applied to direct the great play of modern life in the people swarm earth? They are a lot of things but the one direct, most immediate tangible intangible, and obvious is the DOLLAR in your pocket. The dollar connects you to the empire. The dollar directs your life. People structure their lives around playing the dollar game.
The dollar in your pocket is the same dollar that these globalist empire builders use. The dollar in common is the glue, leash and puppet strings all in one.
People are smug even about believing they have discovered the key to personal independence and freedom by mastering the dollar game for themselves and their families. People call it growing up and being mature and responsible. Yet all they're doing is aquiescing their free will to the pleasure-pain paradigm of this Dollar game.
So,,,,Short of giving up our Dollars, which aren't really ours at all, is their still a way to wrestle some control back for ourselves? Is there a a way for us to jerk the leash from our tethered end and alter the leash masters? Well, Just think what you do to your puppy when he resists his leash. Who wins? And what happens to the puppy's behavior over time as he adjusts to his leash and becomes a pleasure to walk? Why that poor puppy learns to tame his will and follow his leash to please his master.
I am amused at smug humans who say a dog is unevolved or stupid because he lives to please his master. The smug humans who feel themselves so superior to the dog. Yet the smug human is worse off because he is the same as the dog. Except the smug, stupid human is never even aware that he has voluntarily hooked on himself a leash and follows ever so compliantly.
By the way, I love dogs. I am grateful for the insight into behavior they have given me, aside from the very real friendship I shared with my dog during his "walk" with me. I miss him very much.
But I digress. When I should just close. I've taken enough space under this very good article.
Thanks
Hoss
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"Hoss" David P. (51 articles, 5 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 338 comments)
on Monday, December 25, 2006 at 8:15:09 AM
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