blackascoal
The Force is With Me
It's been stated many times before, the attack on Iraq was the worst military and strategic blunder in American history. It has inspired the rise of the multi-polar world and hastened the decline of American influence and power. All the goodwill towards this country that has been built upon since WWII has been spent and frittered away by an administration led by cowboys and robber barons. World leaders who got in bed with these neanderthals have come up smelling like sulfur and have been removed from office by their own people.
Yet the cowboys and robber barons still sit in charge in America. There is a giant gaping hole in the concept of democracy and it's called MONEY. Inject enough MONEY in a democracy and it transforms itself into a plutocracy. America has been transformed, and today it is a plutocracy and failing democracy.
The lack of intelligent direction in America has given rise to new leadership and new alliances all over the world. From the Sino-Russian Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to the Latin American alliance led by Hugo Chavez, the mideast alliance of arab states led by Iran, and the re-thinking of direction by the European Union, the world is moving away from America.
Even worse, all those alliances are talking to each other, forming business, and in some cases, military alliances with each other .. and they aren't inviting America to the table. As in dealing with North Korea, the world finds it better to leave the cowboys on the ranch and out of serious global discussions.
It gets worse ...
We've given rise to a new threat of nuclear war .. which is a natural extension of declaring that we have the right to attack anyone we choose and use nukes if we desire to do so.
Totalitarians didn't do this, neither socialists, Islamists, or terrorists did. AMERICA did this. AND there is a big ass elephant in the room that the rest of the world knows and Americans don't.
We've given rise to Russia and China as the world looks to them to thwart American/Roman attempts at conquest.
We've demonstrated our inability, ONCE AGAIN, to defeat small nations armed with muskets and improvished weapons.
The American people have demonstrated themselves to be puppets, incapable of doing anything about our own demise. The rest of the world now understands that they cannot count on weak-kneed American people to right this nations course. Americans are too weak to even demand accountability in our own elections. The American people deserve to be credited with a hand in America's decline. Without our ignorance and cognitive dissonace, the cowboys and robber barons could not have gotten this far. History SHOULD indicate that it wasn't just Bush that destroyed American influence and respect, it was also the American people.
Like a scene from the "Matrix", Americans refuse to take the red pill. We've become comfortable in our ignorance and illusion.
Our children will face a very different world where America will not have the influence it once had. As with all superpowers, our reign is ending.
Yet the cowboys and robber barons still sit in charge in America. There is a giant gaping hole in the concept of democracy and it's called MONEY. Inject enough MONEY in a democracy and it transforms itself into a plutocracy. America has been transformed, and today it is a plutocracy and failing democracy.
The lack of intelligent direction in America has given rise to new leadership and new alliances all over the world. From the Sino-Russian Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to the Latin American alliance led by Hugo Chavez, the mideast alliance of arab states led by Iran, and the re-thinking of direction by the European Union, the world is moving away from America.
Even worse, all those alliances are talking to each other, forming business, and in some cases, military alliances with each other .. and they aren't inviting America to the table. As in dealing with North Korea, the world finds it better to leave the cowboys on the ranch and out of serious global discussions.
It gets worse ...
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=11474
We've given rise to a new threat of nuclear war .. which is a natural extension of declaring that we have the right to attack anyone we choose and use nukes if we desire to do so.
Totalitarians didn't do this, neither socialists, Islamists, or terrorists did. AMERICA did this. AND there is a big ass elephant in the room that the rest of the world knows and Americans don't.
We've given rise to Russia and China as the world looks to them to thwart American/Roman attempts at conquest.
We've demonstrated our inability, ONCE AGAIN, to defeat small nations armed with muskets and improvished weapons.
The American people have demonstrated themselves to be puppets, incapable of doing anything about our own demise. The rest of the world now understands that they cannot count on weak-kneed American people to right this nations course. Americans are too weak to even demand accountability in our own elections. The American people deserve to be credited with a hand in America's decline. Without our ignorance and cognitive dissonace, the cowboys and robber barons could not have gotten this far. History SHOULD indicate that it wasn't just Bush that destroyed American influence and respect, it was also the American people.
Like a scene from the "Matrix", Americans refuse to take the red pill. We've become comfortable in our ignorance and illusion.
Our children will face a very different world where America will not have the influence it once had. As with all superpowers, our reign is ending.
