Friends, there is a new term that I have coined. That is called ‘Americanism’. If you want to know what it means, just study the map shown above.
On the map, light green shows where America has stationed 1,000 or more troops. The mid-green shows where there are more than 100, while the purple shows where America has full use of military facilities.
O.K. you can say that there is still a lot of grey where America has no control. But the key point is to look at the strategic spread. Given the fact that America also has navies spread across the world’s oceans, there is no part of the world which American armed forces can’t reach quickly and effectively.
And of course, American missiles are stationed everywhere, ones with nuclear warheads which can also reach most places.
Also you need to consider the resources that nations caught up in the web of Americanism have, resources like oil and minerals. It’s no accident that America is in Iraq and mineral-rich Afghanistan or that it is plotting to attack oil-rich Iran.
The country which has the biggest military force and the best strategic placement of it, and is heavily into invasions and occupations and torture, and is trying to gain control of the major proportion of the world’s scarce resources would seem to me to be seeking to gain control of the world, not for the benefit of mankind, but exclusively for its own benefit (with some crumbs thrown to its toadying ‘allies’).
This friends is what I mean by Americanism. Like Zionism, it too is potentially a real danger to freedom and human rights and true democracy.
Remember, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely!
you missed the moon on that map………….
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David G Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
I did it on purpose, Coco, because real doubt exists that America actually put men on the moon. Some say the film that was shown was made on a Hollywood movie set.
The fact that America has never been back there with men in space suits suggests to me that there may be a lot of truth to the rumour!
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Grace Reply:
July 17th, 2010 at 9:09 am
DG, consider too all the SATELLITES, overhead in our ether space as part of the new Americanism you have rightly named. They can watch people in their homes by remote control from a satellite. Of course it was a small article buried in the back pages years ago and has since been hush hush, but that is what those certain humans and their satellites do while the rest of us are living our lives. We are slaves on their planet. They know everything that they want to know. The Planet herself may have other plans though..
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Glambike Reply:
July 25th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Seriously, you really don’t doubt the 6 missions that made it to the moon do you? The Apollo program was a bona fide attempt to prove free-market American democracy (whatever that means) was superior to Soviet Communism. It was a stunt, by stunt pilots largely left over from the advent of jet flight.
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Hi David
I found you blog via your comment on Kellie’s OLO article. Map almost looks accurate except US troop/military presence is much more comprehensive than shown on the map. For example there are more than 5,000 US military and “State Department” reps in Pakistan. Contractors who work for both must also be counted (hard to do) and considered all over the world.
“Use of military facilities” is also much more extensive, including in the South Pacific and East Timor. Joint exercises and ship visits in around 120 countries add up to “Use of military facilities.”
I admit to being more anti-Russian and anti-PRC than anti-US. I lived for two years when I was 12-13 on the US largest base in Fort Hood Texas and have a complex attitude to the US. My blog is centrist but does believe in upgraded and independent Australian defences.
I’ll put you on my blogroll.
Regards
Pete (aka plantagenet)
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America,as usual, has the money for troops and war, but no money for health care or education or unemployment. No money for anything that would help one of the “little people”, but plenty to help the rich corporations controll the resources that we need to live in today’s world.
The only benefit given an ordinary person is the right to join the military and die to protect freedom and democracy also known as corporate profits.
It all makes me sick!
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76-water Reply:
July 16th, 2010 at 8:23 am
Jeannie you are really on to something, Bravo to you!! All this empire building is at the expence of our livelyhood. Money and military aid continues to be funneled to Israel while they disregard our Prtesident and UN resolutions, not to mention the open air prison called Gaza. I fear soon we will all be Palistinians if things don’t turn around. I would like to beleive that most people want what is best for everyone. But then I see what our government is doing around the world. Even the federal reserve, (which is not Federal at all) creating fiat money that only increases the debt load. None of which is done as best for everyone, but whats best for the few. I am old, but I long for change, that is change for the better of course. Glad to read the heart felt comments from those who still have a heart. Cheers and love to all.
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DG, you are on to something! However, please consider Mars.
Jeannie, your comments are heartfelt.
Peace on Earth..
It’s gonna take a big destruction to attain I am beginning to see.
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Pete, I may be too down on America but their endless warmongering suggests to me that they (the leadership) have some unstated objectives hidden among their ‘bringing freedom and democracy’ bullshit!
Jeannie, that there is always money for more war suggests that American priorities are rather twisted. I read the other day about millions of Americans being cut off from welfare yet America is considering attacking Iran and is setting up a new African Command.
76-water, most people have been indoctrinated to want what is best for them. It’s a vital part of capitalism.
Grace, I wish that I could change things. Watching the world unraveling is difficult!
Take care, my friends.
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Hi David
I share many of your misgiving about the Yanks. I’m just hoping our debate on OLO is in the spririt of give and take and ain’t personal.
My closest online friend is equally anti-American as yourself on its military spending, foreign policies and its heartless welfare/health policies. ThHis name is JB Moore from Texas on http://jbmoore61.blogspot.com/ .
His blog is worth many visits as he’s gone into impressive detail and argument on Wall Streets and the US DoD’s clear sins and Obama’s unfortunate opportunism.
Other than that nuclear weapons arguments are my main specialty so I’d be actually grateful if you keep counter-arguments coming on OLO and/or my blog.
Regards
Pete
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David G Reply:
July 16th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Thanks, Pete, I’ll follow that link up. Most of the folk who comment on my blog are American and they are sickened and frustrated by the direction their country is taking.
I realize that we both want the same thing, that is peace, though we may take slightly different tacks. Keep smiling!
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The inference about $$$ for war, but not for the country and it’s people has always
appeared strange to me. Simply put, it’s like religion, another way to guide people
to stay in line and do as they’re told.
Yikes………….
Hope U R well! Cheers!
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David -
A good post as usual. I was brought up to believe that “Americanism” was the best thing that had ever been created. In the 1970s film “The Great Gatsby” they recreated a real billboard of the pre-War II era. It shows a family driving somewhere in the U.S. There is Dad at the wheel and Mom on the seat next to him and the two kids, a boy and a girl in the backseat, and they are all smiling. The caption read “There is no way like the American Way!” There are still many millions in this country who believe that despite all the evidence to the contrary. If you confront most Americans with statistics that show that there are many countries in the world that are better places to live (Norway is rated the best of all) they will not believe it. So many of them have been brainwashed into thinking that we are still the best country and that we just need to tweak a few things here and there and we can get back to living in “Leave It To Beaver” Land. Blogger Joe Bageant (highly recommended) says that Americans are living in what he calls the Hologram, a self-referential world of media, consumerism and political propaganda. I have seen this myself on many levels and it leaves me in despair for the future of my country.
To me Americanism now means imperialism, endless “wars” of occupation and control of nations for their resources and geopolitical significance. I just read that we are gearing up for an attack on Iran and that U.S. firepower, including almost 400 “bunker busters”, is 4 TIMES what it was in 2003 and that it has accelerated under Obama, the man who shamefully went to Oslo and collected a Nobel Peace Prize. Funny how we don’t seem to want to bring “peace and democracy” to nations that don’t have billions of barrels of oil and trillions of dollars in sought after resources.
Americanism also means the process of increased corporate takeover of our cherished institutions. The woman who helped to destroy the public option in our recent healthcare “reform” legislation has been appointed to be the go-to person for this cynical piece of greed in the Obama administration. Obama’s financial appointments are well known and they serve as proper lackeys for their good buddies on Wall Street. Obama’s Secy. of Education, Arne Duncan, is continuing all of the Bush Regime nonsense about privatizing our public schools and turning our kids into little robot test takers. In the environmental sector we have Ken Salazar heading the Interior Dept. who has just put up for sale nearly 2 million acres in Alaska for drilling purposes, even after the disastrous blowout in the Gulf.
It goes on and on. I was recently denied posting privileges on Democratic Underground because I referred to Obummer as “Barry the Liar”. I know that I can call him that here and will not be censured. Obama IS a liar and I have come to see him as little different than Bush, a person whom I will always detest for what he did to what was left of America. The people on DU told me that the new rules on that site must reflect the belief that insults are not helpful and that we must work within the system to make the Democratic party better. I swear to you that is what they said. I told them goodbye.
For the first time I am seriously making plans to leave my country. My great hero Albert Einstein left Germany twice. The first time was to protest the Kaiser’s militarism and the second time, in 1933, was to leave Hitler’s Germany and to likely save his own life. I can understand the impulse to leave one’s country when you finally come to believe that it simply cannot be reformed.
Americanism, to me, does not mean tens of millions of Tea Party extremists who think that Sarah Palin should be president. It doesn’t mean corporate CEOs getting salaries thousands of times greater then their average worker. It doesn’t mean having a right-wing dominated Supreme Court that handed the presidency to a smirking sociopath in 2000 and then went on to declare that corporations have the legal rights of people. And, above all, it doesn’t mean a vast number of “citizens” who can’t be bothered to vote or work to improve their community but can tell you who won on “Idol” last night.
One of my favorite authors, Mark Twain, said – “I am an anti-imperialist”. I’m sorry that more than 100 years later that a statement like that still needs to be said.
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Grace Reply:
July 17th, 2010 at 5:53 am
Sarah Tea Party Palin = ST(PP)alin is like an anagram for Stalin w/pp. Maybe she can see Russia from her porch!
“I know that I can call him that here and will not be censured” Thank you David! There are few places that are free like that. It s bad enough that I am paranoid enough to believe that my words are put through a big brother filter.
ho·lo·gram
Function: noun
Date: 1949
: a three-dimensional image reproduced from a pattern of interference produced by a split coherent beam of radiation (as a laser); also :
The pattern of interference itself..
hmm, so named in 1949.
(Merriam-Webster)
Thanks for great posts, Bruce, everybody.
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As always David you are right on the mark ,As an american citizen and a citizen of the world we need to change this ,it is a slow process ,This is something i have felt since i was a child and unable to express. It is a crooked dishonest unhealthy mindset . A petro chemical fueled nightmare ,not unlike alcoholism a society that kills the spirit before the body succumbs .
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Well David, this article has generated a lot of interesting responces. Enjoying them all and learning something at the same time. I wonder if America, (as it used to be believed to be), ( is that complicated or what?), is like the Wizard of Oz where he appeared so powerful but was really just a febble old man pulling levers behind a curtain. I am starting to think so. We huff and puff but theres no backbone left anymore. Just an allusion. Keep up the good work and thanks to EVERYBODY! Cheers!
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Coffee, I am well and the treatment has worked. Thanks for calling by. It always makes me feel good to see your name.
Bruce, yours is an enlightening comment and it comes from the heartland. That you want to leave there confirms my suspicions that American citizens are getting sick of where their ‘leadership’ is taking them. Of course, this is a good sign because if the people get angry enough, then change might happen.
Grace, on this blog truth is welcomed no matter how ugly it is.
Jeff B, killing the spirit is a powerful way to describe what in happening in the U.S. The pigs are running the farm and democracy is all but dead. Unfortunately, America is so powerful that what happens there affects the rest of the world negatively.
76-water, thanks for your input. We value it!
Cheers to all.
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Bruce Reply:
July 17th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Hello All -
I noticed after I posted that I made a mistake which I want to correct. The Nobel Prize is awarded in Stockholm, not Oslo. I confused those two Scandinavian capitals. With that said, I want to emphasize how disheartening it was to watch the man who I voted for President (I will not make that mistake again) go there and receive a Nobel Peace Prize that he did not earn and then use the proceedings to justify U.S. military action around the world. I know that the Nobel Committee can sometimes use the prize as a means of encouraging it’s recipients to more strongly pursue their goals with peace in mind. However, with Obama it was a poor choice. Barry the Liar will pursue “U.S. interests” in any way possible including the use of military force. After all of that hopeful campaign rhetoric (his campaign team actually won an award from “Advertising Age” for their efforts, what does THAT say about political campaigns in the U.S.!) he turned out to be just another corporate hack. If this is what “hope and change” is in the U.S. then it is time for me to look for a new home. I have marched against wars, I have spoken out every way that could, I have signed literally thousands of petitions over the years and it all seems to matter very little in the end.
David, I see that your country has a new Prime Minister. One thing that struck me when I read about her on Wikipedia is that she stated to the press that she does not believe in God. If a candidate for any high office here said that they would lose hands down. Such a difference. I wish that she was more liberal/progressive on the issues and I sincerely hope that you don’t end up being as deeply disappointed with her as I am with Obama. Thanks again for this wonderful website.
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Thirty-one years ago, your post would have described the U.S.S.R. to a tee. I am not sure how much American presence is due to the former Cold War or current imperial ambitions, but I am guessing that the empire will fall apart shortly. If Pete is correct, Afghanistan is Vietnam version 2.0 for America. We can ill afford the war when we are paying for all the damage the banks wrought in 2003-2008. Our sick and elderly and future elderly are being targeted to pay for the indiscretions of the banks and their wealthy investors. Government has been dismantled by the Republicans and the Democrats are rudderless. Any imperial ambitions you see are being directed by corporations behind the scenes. It’s not about winning wars and building democracy. It’s about wringing the last dollar from the American government and taxpayer before it goes completely broke. Though if I were you, I’d fear China before I’d fear the U.S. This is because the Chinese have a track record of psychological conditioning and torture. And if that doesn’t work, they can always kill you and harvest your organs. I am not apologizing for what Bush and Cheney started and Obama is defending (torture), but realize that the U.S. went slightly insane after 9/11 and Bush and Cheney took advantage of that. The funny thing is that Wall Street finished what bin Laden started. If not for the bailout, Wall Street would have been no more. The US might have been better off if we had allowed that to happen, but Wall Street owns our government and our democratic republic will not last long the way things are shaping up.
I have been reading Damon Vrabel’s articles: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20368 . I don’t buy his entire thesis, but his analysis is illuminating and is, unfortunately, very plausible. He predicts that Iran will be the start of WWIII and that a global fascist state is being formed through the use of debt. I do not attribute evil and greed where stupidity and incompetence will suffice to explain human folly, but he does. I suppose we shall soon see if he is correct or not.
People are clever, but not very smart, and we easily delude ourselves. Try to be one of the smart ones who is less deluded than most.
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David G Reply:
July 17th, 2010 at 10:07 am
I’m so pleased you called by JBM. Pete mentioned you the other day and you were on my list to visit.
My Chinese wife may not agree with your comments about fearing China more and neither do I. They do not have the imperial track record that America has.
The U.S. is the world’s principal warmonger and it is clearly trying to control the world via military force and the seizing of scarce economic resources.
It is a danger to itself and every other nation in the world!
Cheers.
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Grace Reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 1:16 am
How quickly things change. I remeber protesting China’s Most Valuable Trading Status. I stood outside of Toys R Us and explained to the local news camera people, that We must uphold standards of basic human rights AND if China cannot behave ethically towards its own people, that America should not grant them the favoured trading status. Our Congress voted to give them the Status without demanding human rights – and the rest is history. NOW, America is the major human rights violator and the irony that the Chinese appear benign campared to the murderous, broke ass USA! China owns US to boot!
We have other neighbors from Taiwan and they are the sweetest people you could ever hope to meet.
We have to go beyond, judging the book by its cover.
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John Robertson (Robbo) Reply:
July 18th, 2010 at 9:46 am
When I was at sea (many moons ago) my experience was that of all the ports we
visited, from Basra to Nagoya and dozens in between, Chinese ports were the safest and the people the most friendly.
As far as “And if that doesn’t work, they can always kill you and harvest your organs.”
Israel has a pretty good record in that department.
Robbo
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The US has sent 7,000 troops and 46 warships to Costa Rica, with the excuse of targeting drug trafficking. The US military escalation in Latin America is seen as agression and threats to the rest of the Latin American continent.
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Bruce Reply:
July 18th, 2010 at 5:39 am
Marlene -
You are so right. While we in the States are constantly hearing all the BS about the “terrorist threats” from various parts of the world, the real threat to America’s ruling elites are the leftist changes that are taking place in Central and South America. The U.S. is loath to have any example of a socialist-type government in the same hemisphere because it will provide an alternative to the sink or swim system of maximum profit that dominates here. That is why the U.S. STILL maintains an embargo on Cuba more than 40 YEARS after it was instituted. We are trying to force the people there into revolting against their government and allowing U.S. corporations to come back and run the place like they do in Puerto Rico. We even broadcast anti-govt. messages from stations like Radio Marti in Miami. I certainly have criticisms against some of what Castro did and I resent that he turned over the reins of power to his brother (although there are examples of nepotism here in the States as well), however I am greatly impressed with the fact that a relatively poor nation like Cuba tries to provide free medical care (check out Michael Moore’s film “Sicko”), free education and subsidized housing to the people there.
In addition to Costa Rica the U.S. has many troops in Columbia. They will be very useful if we can ever provoke an uprising in Venezuela and topple Chavez. The Bush Regime tried to and I’m sure it is discussed by Team Obama as well. We overthrew a duly elected govt. in Chile because Allende was likely to nationalize businesses there and Henry Kissinger (a truly evil man) helped plan the coup that resulted in the military dictatorship of Pinochet. But that was just fine with U.S. corporations as we stopped another example of socialism from starting up. Read “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” for more on the nefarious ways that U.S. “interests” are promoted around the world. But now, even the U.S. can’t stop the “idea whose time has come”. People all over Latin America as saying NO! to our arrogant hegemony. I was delighted when Evo Morales was elected President of Bolivia. I heard him interviewed by Amy Goodman on “Democracy Now!” and I wish that Obama would say a fraction of the things I heard from this man. Latin America in general has always been considered as a rich resource base to be subjugated by economic, diplomatic or military means. I remember when Raygun (truly one of our worst presidents) called the murderous
Contras of Nicaragua “the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers”. That statement revealed the moral bankruptcy of so much of the Republican Party. But they will have a much harder time getting their hooks into the new Latin America.
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No one can claim the Moon, Mars or anything beyond the stratosphere because the human animal–indeed, all terrestrial life forms–is incapable of sustaining itself off of this planet beyond the short term. To do so would require the replacement of the biotic with the bionic–a mechanical substitution of the organic being.
I have studied astrology for over four decades. I specialize in Wellness Astrology, a term that I coined to describe a prevention-oriented, plant (vegan) based (food and medicine) version of traditional medical astrology.
All phenomena are set in cycles. They peak and trough predictably at the appointed time during short (lunar–28 days), medium (Mars = 2 years, Jupiter = 12 years) and long (Pluto = 248 years) cycles. When humans lived closer to nature–outdoors–they watched the cycles unfold through time and respected what they knew to be the basket that holds all life, ourselves included.
Now humans who work, eat, worship, study, recreate, etc. INDOORS have lost touch with this nature and initially lost the meaning of it all. Then they lost respect for it. Now they are armed to the teeth to destroy it by “finishing it” as if all nature is a raw material that needs human crafting to bring out its essence, that is, the manner by which it gains utility serving human ends.
Of course only insane people hold these thoughts, as you cannot change nature without influencing everything IN nature, ourselves included.
Just as the Moon/28 day cycle is the engine that drives the menstrual cycle, so too are all other cycles–seen and unseen–driven by planetary motion. The Mars cycle drives the red blood cells, the Saturn cycle drives the bone calcium cycle–Uranus associates with the eyes, Jupiter with the liver, Pluto the sex organs, etc.
I have asked this question a thousand times and I only get blank stares or foolish responses: if the Moon drives the menstrual cycle (and it does), what would drive the menstrual cycle of a fertile female living on a lunar colony? Or worse–on a Martian colony? How about beyond the solar system?
They can’t answer it because they don’t want to face the obvious truth that every species HAS ITS PLACE and by using tech, fire and clothing (the latter being an expression of tech), tropical, frugivorous humans have become ubiquitous, heavy-handed, flesh-eating apes replacing TRUE native plants and animals from pole to pole.
There is a headiness in realizing that you have so much power–to destroy, but they think that it is creative–and thus it was a short step to create human-god hybrids to worship (would a benign immortal entity REALLY want people groveling and worshipping at its feet? The very thought makes me vomit, laugh and fear (these blind believers) all at once) and also to ANOINT their devolutionary plans of running a destructive game of transforming the complex into the simple–evolution in a backward direction.
In the main, the West has settled on worshipping a tribal war god who demands total annihilation of every man, woman, child, the unborn, kept animals, crops and fields of his enemies. Jehovah is a fabrication, but an idea gains power when–like a virus–it infects the mind of a human host. Christians would do well to stop at a benign image of Jeshua and live according to that influence and squash any notion that Jeshua is the son of such a beast as a war god. War god sires Prince of Peace? Not likely. As long as people give power to a mere concept, that concept is, in a frightening sense, as real as if it really existed, which it surely does not.
So these maddened apes seek TERRITORY, which is power, and they hold on to notions of DOMINION–associated with territory and power over the beings within that spatial area. Why should ANYONE feel that the STATE has authority over them simply because they exist within the space that the devotees to that state say is divinely ordained by law? I was born in a place and I live in another place but why am I obligated to obey the laws of those who think that they RULE the place where I am? Are there not NATURAL laws everywhere as well as HUMAN laws that must be flawed if they are not aligned with natural laws? If fire burns me in Memphis as well as in Canberra, why would some human law say that I can walk through fire unscathed in London? I do not think like culture-intoxicated humans. I am an animal. I have instincts which are true. Logic can be applied illogically. Reason, unreasonably. The rational can quickly turn irrational. No mosquito, bird or fish suffers such a burden of mind.
So no surprise that cult-driven humans think and act UNSCIENTIFICALLY and actually believe that they can live beyond Earth’s borders. Yes, if they become BOTS, but then they wouldn’t be themselves anymore, would they?
But the Devolutes don’t care. They have the masses captivated by the TV and junk food. They are immobilized. They are signed, sealed and delivered to the power of darkness that scales back the evolutionary process of differentiation, refinement and spiritualization. There is a Jacob’s ladder, a Stairway to Heaven, a way outta here, and it DEPENDS on form that allows a steady progress from one ice floe to the next until we are back in the tropical orchard, where life is abundant and the light is clear.
Evolute or Devolute. Your choice. Value all life and protect it, or engage all life as the Enemy and destroy all but the small self. Earth to small self–you cannot live–like an island–alone, Mankind. All things are tied together, all things are bound to the same base, you kill me, you kill yourself.
You try to fly off somewhere into the blackness, yes, you might survive a few generations, but you will unravel eventually. It is like diving into the water and holding your breath. OK, I see that you can do it short term. But if you have plans to grow fins, forget it. That wouldn’t be you, now would it?
And on the Moon, Mars and elsewhere, you won’t FIND much by way of water, or air, or anything. THIS is where the variety of life that you seek blossoms and shines. Open your squinty eyes and see what is before you before your nightmare that replaced the dream that all life seeks rends all things terrestrial.
Abandon NASA. The photos of faraway galaxies that you can never, ever touch have made you immune to being moved by photos of oil-drenched birds and baby whales. You can hop on a plane or in your car and SEE these struggling brethren. Let their reality become once again your reality, lest we all become enveloped by the darkness that you wield. Your foolish mind is twisted, but there is a way back. Seek it while a few grains of sand remain in your cosmic hourglass.
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coco Reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 12:01 am
well written (and explained) ted…………i’m with you all the way.
looking forward too, to the perseids meteor shower on 12/13 august……….hardly any moon, so should be a spectacular show!!!!
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Hi David
I’ve finally replied to your latest comment on my blog re US, Israel and Iran. What I said was:
“Hi David
Re: “the U.S. is not just arming itself for deterrence.”
True. Both the US and USSR developed enough weapons, and of sufficiently diverse types for military domination (aka offense) as an option. Anti Ballistic Missile weapons are also part of issue and danger.
While the US and now Russia talk disarmament, (and many otherwise intelligent people are conned by this) these nuclear superpowers disarm from a very high base. Their dominance continues, particularly in large land based or submarine based ICBMs.
In 10-20 years, in competitin with the above two and with each other, China and India may aspire to 10,000+ weapon dominance.
If there is a joint Israeli/US attack on Iran the parametres will be worked out with Russia, China ad India beforehand – to ensure they don’t warn the Iranians of an impending attack and don’t effectively intervene on the Iranian side.
The US-Israel will expect the Chinese and Russ to loudly protest but not to materially intervene.
I’ve said elsewhere that both Israel and Iran have the right to defend themselves with nuclear weapons. Also that I trust Iran more with nukes than Saudi Arabia having Pakistani nukes.
This http://gentleseas.blogspot.com/2009/12/airstrikes-on-iran-timing.html is worth reading on the likelihod the US may launch an Iran strike as a diversion from the US failing Afghan venture.
I also published “Middle Eastern reactors for profit” http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9915 on OLO. Comparing Iran’s nuclear effort with the permitted, commercial, Saudi and UAE nuclear effort.
As I’ve said before while great powers currently and historically are amoral I see less evil in the US than in Russia and China. Every dog has its day – in the 19th century the UK, probably our main heritage was particulary nasty in its dealings with India and China.”
Regards
Pete
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Pete, I agree with you that great powers are amoral. I agree with you that the U.S., aided by Israel, will almost certainly nuke Iran.
Regarding Russia, it was this country which had the maturity to back off in Cuba while warmongering America was ready to get it on, build on its Hiroshima experience. Regarding China, except for Tibet, it has not evidenced any imperialism at all,
Regarding America, it is is ringing Russia with missiles and it is America which is waging two wars and ‘droning’ Pakistan and backing Columbia in a confrontation with Venezuela and South Korea in a confrontation with the North. And it is America that has military bases all over the world and is keen to built many more as soon as it can get its armies involved in the affairs of other nations.
This would seem to me to indicate that America is far more evil than either Russia or China!
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