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Grandiose Visions – Nightmare Realities
by Kingfisher Monday, Jan 9 2006, 5:08am
international / peace/war / commentary

The “New American Century” (PNAC) and the “Thousand Year Reich”, shared a similar preposterous vision; a crude blend of wishful thinking, fantasy and religiosity. However, the chronologically modest American ‘vision’ is no less dangerous and destructive a model; in fact, the potential for destruction on a scale never before seen is inherent in the ‘New American (graveyard) Century’.

There is “nothing new under the sun”, sayeth the wise political analyst. Right-wing politics (regardless of era) follows characteristic patterns; the predicability of outcomes is also a simple matter of basic analysis. The most cursory comparison of right wing regimes of the past and present would yield dramatic evidence of a lack of insight and understanding born/e of linear or myopic thinking. Insularity of thought is not conducive to survival in a world that has been forced to confront itself on a massive scale.

Real vision is born of awareness, understanding the consequences of destructive actions and policies – not the blind pursuit of self-interest based on grandiose notions of self-importance and presumptions of superiority.

Does it benefit anyone to pursue exclusive, elitist policies today? Would any thinking person imagine there is no price to pay for the illegal exploitation of another nation’s resources and the murder of its innocent citizens? Would it surprise anyone to learn that a nation that displays contempt for others is despised by all? These simple questions yield obvious answers yet America displays pathological behaviour by pursuing a course of death, destruction and eventual annihilation – the ‘junkie’ pursues the ‘fix’ that will kill but the fix must be pursued regardless of consequences!

America is the sick nation of the world; the patient requires intensive care, “extraordinary events require extraordinary measures”; radiation therapy and nuclear medicine may be required in order to prevent the loss of the entire ‘body’. The surgical removal of the diseased part is imperative – we must all help cure the world.

American ‘intelligence’ agencies had absolutely no idea of the development of nuclear weapons by the emerging nations of India and Pakistan. Today, the US focuses on Islamist groups and bearded ‘terrorists’ – coincidentally, this (focus) prompts the recollection of a Muslim ‘joke’ we were taught in the Signals Corps. It should be stated that a particular genre of Muslim anecdotes/jokes are intended to instruct: