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Tuesday, March 6, 2007 |
Harpers: "Counterinsurgency warfare as military malpractice."
The tenor of the article seems to be that the United States should govern Iraq (and why not Afghanistan, in short the whole world?). Which is of course the most ridiculous proposition ever heard. The Romans didn't do it, and no serious Empire can do it without local native governors. Moreover, the Bush government isn't even able to properly govern the United States.
Furthermore, the tendency of the article is that an invader should use the most ruthless methods, the Genghis Khan approach. Isn't that what's happening now? But that doesn't last for ever either.
An Empire must at least have an inner justification, have an appeal to both the homeland and the conquered territories. America no longer has that appeal, there is no moral justification, no intrinsic value, there is only naked greed. Which like in the Roman Empire leads to corruption and the fall of the empire. The corruption in the GOP is obvious. The only way to subdue foreign countries is to blackmail, threaten and destroy them. Gone is the American way of life, the freedom and liberty, the prosperity. The Bush government is living a lie.
Bush has reached a dead end.
AsharqAlawsat: "Muammar Gaddafi has complained that Western countries have failed to properly compensate Libya for scrapping its nuclear arms programme and as a result countries like Iran and North Korea would not follow his lead."
NYTimes: "Iraqi special forces and British troops stormed the offices of an Iraqi government intelligence agency in the southern city of Basra on Sunday, and British officials said they discovered about 30 prisoners, some showing signs of torture."
The Americans have to fight the government they themselves have created. They have brought torture to Iraq in a way that never was under Saddam and now they have opened a Pandora's box. The Bush government has no control over the situation whatsoever.
And the technical superiority of American forces is counterproductive; it only produces more resistance and hatred:
Nasdaq: "Nine Afghan civilians were killed when US forces dropped two 2,000 lb bombs during a bombing raid in Kapisa province, Afghan officials said."
The situation has deteriorated so far that the Bush government has to cloak itself in ever greater secrecy to hide its criminal deeds:
FAS: "A federal appeals court ruled last week that the overriding need to protect 'state secrets' makes it impossible to litigate claims by a German citizen named Khaled el-Masri that he was illegally detained and abused by the Central Intelligence Agency in a case of 'extraordinary rendition'. The appeals court upheld a lower court's earlier dismissal of the proceeding."
Yahoo: "More than half of all those arrested in Britain under anti-terrorism legislation since the September 11 2001 attacks have been released without any charge, official government figures showed on Monday."
Intimidation or lack of control?
NYTimes: "The former federal prosecutor in Maryland said Monday that he was forced out in early 2005 because of political pressure stemming from public corruption investigations involving associates of the state's governor, a Republican."
The Empire is crumbling.
12:05:25 PM 
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