CLEANING UP THE MESSES
AMERICA'S FLIRTATION WITH THE CONCEPT OF EMPIRE
By: Phil Brennan
"War is Hell" said General William Tecumseh Sherman, the man who inflicted the horrors of Perdition on a good-sized chunk of the Confederacy to emphasize his point.
War is also stupid, and no less so even when it is necessary for self-defense. It is also immoral when waged for any reason other than self-defense. Wars kill people, you see, and you damned well better have a good reason for offing large numbers of your fellow human beings before you start dropping bombs on them.
We are now facing a war which will be hell, stupid, and, if many of the anti-war groups are correct, immoral.
We are faced with the question of its necessity - will the war if it comes be justified as being self-defensive in nature? And as the Pope points out, the self-defense justification does not allow a pre-emptive attack based on the mere assumption that Iraq may some time in the future:
1. possess nuclear weapons which it might use against us or its neighbors, or
2. supply terrorists with those and other weapons of mass destruction to be used against us and the rest of the free world.
What would clearly justify the use of the self-defense argument would be a demonstration of the fact that Iraq has already attacked the U.S. In that case, war would be morally justified since Iraq would be cast as an aggressor who needs to be brought to heel.
There is every reason to believe that this is indeed the case. There is evidence that strongly suggests that Iraq was the source of the anthrax used in the fall 2001 anthrax letter attacks which killed five Americans - a fact obscured by the FBI's idiot pursuit of Dr. Steven Hatfill, but that's another story.
If, as the available evidence suggests, Iraq has already been instrumental in an attack against the U.S., an attack likely to be repeated, then a war against Saddam Hussein would be a just war.
The warnings from the peaceniks that an attack on Iraq will create hatred against the U.S. and spark a huge and violent reaction against us, fail to recognize that as long as we continue to support Israel, which we will, we will continue to be hated and attacked by much of the Arab world. They don't need a war against Iraq to stir them up. They're already at fever pitch.
That having been said, there are other factors to be looked at. And oil is not one of them, no matter what the Ludite peaceniks claim. If oil were the causus belli, our troops would now be surrounding oil rich Venezuela, in our own backyard, where the crazed Marxist president Hugo Chavez is busy creating another Latin gulag in concert with his hero Fidel Castro, and threatening a sizeable segment of our oil supply. Check the prices at the pump since the oil strike in Venezuela began in protest against comrade Hugo.
What is worth looking at, and contemplating carefully, is America's very obvious flirtation with the concept of empire.
The world is a messy place, and the Middle East is one of the messiest places of all. Looked at from the perspective of the New World Order advocates among us, the preeminent position of the United States as the world's sole super-power dictates that we must assume the function of cleaning up the messes so that we can all live in an orderly and prosperous world. After all, if we don't do it, who will?
This is a new wrinkle on the old New World Order idea. That was based on the U.S. surrendering our sovereignty to a world government. To George Bush, that's plain unthinkable.; He's gone to great pains to make it obvious that, like it or not, the U.S. comes first in all things - a quite refreshing view in an age where U.S. presidents - except of course Ronald Reagan - routinely saw America properly seated in the back of the bus.
The new New World Order thus is to be one solely owned and operated by a beneficent United States of America on a mission to save the world from itself. Madam Albright said it best when she asked what good is having all of that power if we don't plan to use it?
And even without an assault on Iraq, we're already half-way there in the Middle East. Take a look at a map of the area and you'll see that it is teeming with growing cohorts of American troops. Listen to what we are being told - that we plan to stay there indefinitely, that our legions will, in effect, be there to guarantee the security of the area, just as the legions of ancient Rome kept the peace wherever they were garrisoned (except in Germany, which in those days, unlike the present, kinda liked going to war).
Moreover, we are now being assured that the monstrous cost of occupying and "democratizing" Iraq will be partially paid out of Iraq's oil revenues, just as the cost of keeping Rome's legions on station - and the price of the bread and circuses supplied to the Roman people - were paid by taxing the locals enjoying the alleged benefits of Pax Romana.
Needless to say, it won't stop there. As I mentioned, the world is a messy place and there are a hell of a lot of other places where the messes need to be cleaned up. And who else but the world's only super power can take on the job and do it.
Heck, as long as we have the might, why not use it? We're the good guys after all.
Aren't we?
Pax vobiscum!
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