U.S. foreign policy seems to be moving beyond the realm of political science textbooks. Washington today means ever more bellicose groupthink. It’s the theatre of the absurd. Statements without shared meanings are uttered from a moral void.
With the spiralling integration of paranoia and megalomania, one must rather turn to textbooks of psychology for interpretation.
We are living in increasingly dangerous times.
How shall we react, intellectually and emotionally? How, for instance, shall we react to a surreal news bite like this?
“The US has plans to establish an American-led military administration in Iraq, similar to the postwar occupation of Germany and Japan, which could last for several years after the fall of Saddam Hussein… Saddam would be replaced by US General Tommy Franks…”
No, it is not fiction. Read the story here:
New York Times, October 10, 2002
U.S.
has a Plan to Occupy Iraq, Officials Report
The Guardian, October 12, 2002
US
plans military rule and occupation of Iraq:
Saddam
would be replaced by General Tommy Franks
“The Iraqi project, outlined by Mr Bush’s senior adviser on the Middle East, Zalmay Khalilzad, would involve running the entire country until a democratic Iraqi government was deemed ready,” writes the Guardian.
Who is Zalmay Khalilzad? Not surprisingly, he is from the oil industry, former adviser to Unocal and the link to the Afghan oil connection. He is a neo-conservative, close to Wolfowitz, No. 2 man at Pentagon. Read more about Khalilzad here:
TruthOut, Zalmay Khalilzad and the Bush Agenda
Watching and listening to George W. Bush and other leaders, one wonders whether they understand the responsibilities of the overwhelming power that is now concentrated in their hands?
Are they fully aware of how careful, how humble, they must be when handling the American potentials for death and destruction?
I feel they are not. What do you feel?
War against Iraq and its people as well as a US military dictatorship aiming to control Iraq’s oil is inhuman and illegal. It is an absurdity coming out of a groupthink that has lost contact with the rest of humanity.
Friends of the United States must begin to say this aloud. It will no longer do to just shake our heads despairingly or keep quiet in fear.
For every new cataclysmic step, plan and doctrine, we must protest but also help Americans to find peace and harmony together with the rest of us.
They used to say that what is good for the United States is good for the world. I think this now applies to peaceful regime change and democratisation in Washington.
