They actually seem to believe that they can have friendly relations with India, Pakistan and China, all at the same time, which in view of the long-term hostility between India and the other two countries seems to most of us to be pure fantasy.
Even with the economic crisis threatening
to subject the whole country to a complete meltdown, the new administration
is still playing the game as if it could get friendly with countries
like India and China while at the same time they are invading or, as
they claim, peacefully taking over countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The fact that the real reason for never giving up on Afghanistan is
the vital importance that is given to the pipeline that will give the
Unites States access to natural gas from the Caucasian region is of
course a badly kept secret for those who keep their eyes open. Getting
access through Iran is obviously seen as unrealistic, even by the fantasists
in Washington The long-time competition between Russia and the U.S.
for military bases in the countries along the southern border of Russia
concerns nothing else than the control of oil and gas exports from the
Caucasus and the Caspian Sea basin.
Reality counts for nothing. The whole
imperial agenda seems to Washington to be played out like a video game.
The fact that Afghanistan has never been conquered by any nation since
the Mongol invasion under Genghis Khan in 1219 " 1221 does not seem
to bear any reality for the U.S. fantasists. The British tried and lost,
the Soviet Union tried and lost and Washington is still refusing to
see their Mission Impossible for what it is.
As far as Pakistan is concerned, Washington
still imagines that they can be seen as the Big Brother who has come
to mend a torn country. They are the friendly nation builders who will
win over the people and get rid of the feared Taliban and all the various
groups of religious fanatics and different shades of jihadists who are
holed up in the mountainous areas in the west of Pakistan. But they
never asked the people what they wanted. It turns out that a vast majority
of Pakistanis want more than anything else to see the Americans leave.
They see them as colonizers, not as a helping hand to mend a torn country.
This is not surprising after the drone bombings of the mountainous regions
in the West, started by President Obama very early on in his presidency.
Changes at home
Washington's major goal is to keep
everybody else from getting the upper hand on the income from the precious
oil and the general control of the region. As a result American citizens,
suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, see their lives
and livelihoods being shattered, while their tax money goes to the upkeep
of client states that will serve as buffers against countries that threaten
U.S. domination of Central Asia, in particular Iran. It's all about
control. Controlling the whole world, even if it takes making newly
Capitalist China a friend. Which no one else has ever managed to do.
Even though U.S. citizens are propagandized
to believe in the infallibility of their country, it is still possible
that the light of reason and truth is beginning to seep through the
cracks in the walls of secrecy. The present-day wars are becoming less
and less supported by the people, for whatever reason, and we might
finally begin to ask ourselves how much longer they will put up with
the megalomania of the administration and the outrageous corruption
of the members of Congress without which the war machine would have
come to a halt a long time ago. And it may never have taken on its present
proportions at all if it had not been for the powerful lobbies of the
arms industry.
Many Europeans were deluded into believing
that President Obama was going to change the fundamental position of
the United States in the world, as were of course most of the U.S. citizens
who voted for him. However, all we are seeing is the same unilateralism
and the same imperial agenda as under the previous administration.
[1]737 U.S. Military Bases = GlobalEmpire, by Chalmers Johnson,
excerpted from Chalmers Johnson's new book, "Nemesis: The Last Days of the AmericanRepublic (number of bases in 2005). On
July 3, 2009 the number of bases is cited as 800 by Chalmers Johnson
[2] How many military bases do we
have around the world? - May 14, 2009 by Dusty
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