America: On a collision course with the world
By Ken Hillman
Online Journal Contributing Writer
December 22, 2002—As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and it is us." This famous comic strip character had it exactly right when we consider the condition of our nation and our society today.
America, sad to say, may become the Roman Empire of this era. Right now, this nation, its people and this society are on a collision course with the rest of the world. Like that great monolith of its time, we appear to have lost our moral and ethical compass and we are following the same path that led to the destruction of that great empire. The Roman Empire self-destructed from within, not from without, as its society and its leadership succumbed to self-indulgence and the quest to dominate the entire world.
This nation, this administration, has de-escalated its hunt for Osama and has now turned all its energies and its sights on going after Saddam, the current owner of the oil that we desperately want. We have turned the "war on terrorism" into a war for oil, oil and more oil. Unless we find a way to reverse this current misguided course, the most dangerous in our current history, we are on a path to follow the Roman Empire's demise.
How did we ever get to this critical point where there is great evidence of an American society rapidly regressing and decaying before the eyes of the entire world? At a time when we should be growing in wisdom, showing true leadership and working closely with the world community of nations to solve our many mutual problems, why are we hell bent on war and domination? It is oil, oil and more oil!
And, my fellow Americans, you may not like what I say in the following but I will say it anyway. You may disagree completely, get angry or whatever. Just consider my conclusions and be honest in your judgment of my message as related to this society and your part in it. I wish I did not have to write such an indictment of this society but I quite simply must. I believe it is crucial to the future of our country, our children and our grandchildren.
I believe that two major elements have allowed us to reach this critical point in our history. The first is the American people who simply do not want to be bothered with critical national and world issues. We are in love with our many material possessions, our big gas-guzzling SUVs, our intense love of guns. We do not understand the great irony involved with the fact that we spend close to $400 billion annually for bombs, missiles and other military needs while we have 41 million people in this nation who have no health insurance whatsoever. Many of us go to church, listen to God's word, then go home and totally agree that if we suspect any nation of plotting against us pre-emptive military action, including nuclear strikes, is okay. If that's how you feel, then I suggest that you turn in your Bibles, for they will do you no more good.
The second element is the totally corporate-controlled media; TV, radio, newspapers that have completely lost their journalistic morality and objectivity and have turned into sheep and cattle. They simply will not tell the American people the facts involved with these critical issues. They have refused, except for some honest and courageous journalists, to inform Americans that both Osama bin Laden and Saddam were associated with the US government in the 1980s and 1990s. Bin Laden in Afghanistan during Russia's 1990s incursion into that country and Saddam in his war on Iran during the 1980s. Americans should have knowledge of these facts but they do not.
This society is beset with violence of many different designs on a continuous basis. Each day is filled with every kind of madness involving guns, murders, assaults, etc., and the media, especially TV, constantly feeds the public with vivid descriptions of all these happenings. Primetime TV and Hollywood movies are extremely violent and contribute to giving Americans a steady diet of killing and more killing. The biggest problem is that most Americans simply have not and will not reject this bombardment of violence and it has now become part of our American culture. Unfortunately, the majority of this society simply accepts this madness and just watches the Sopranos, Jackass, "Survivors" of all types, and is totally content. There is no outrage, no desire to make things better, no interest whatsoever as we watch our society continue to regress and unravel.
When I state that America is on a collision course with the world, I mean just that. Almost the entire world, including all of our allies excepting Great Britain (which also desperately wants Iraq's oil), are totally against our stated intent to attack Iraq. They are repelled by this administration's stated policy of pre-emptive military strikes. In short, we have succeeded in alienating most of the world based on our recent actions and intense saber rattling. My greatest fear is that if we attack Iraq before letting the UN inspectors do their job, and then become embroiled in a Middle East conflict with many nations, we will have begun World War III.
But why do we and the rest of the world disagree to such an extent? It is because we are on totally different frequencies in our thinking. Most of the world's countries, in particular those in the Middle East, are convinced that our only aim is to get the oil. Their opinion is based upon the fact that they are there, they see, they hear, they know. The vast majority of Americans who say that this is not about oil are here, not there, they do not see, do not hear; they only know what the American media tell them, which is nothing. Robert Fisk, a great Middle East analyst and writer, who has lived in Lebanon for many years, has been there, has seen, knows what the real truth is, but most Americans have never read his analyses or even heard of him. This American media, by their total lack of journalistic integrity and objectivity, are not only allowing this impending collision to occur, but are actually fueling it by their actions and non-actions.
This next World War will not be anything like the first two world wars; World War II being the last war fought for an honorable cause. In this next horrendous conflict, Israel and we will have great quantities of sophisticated hi-tech weapons and the silent enemy will not. This world conflict will be analogous to someone who takes a huge club and strikes a hornet or wasp nest to destroy it. Then those who have been attacked will strike with a vengeance and will use stealth and cover to inflict their own terrible payback.
This is what is happening almost daily in Israel and has happened in Bali and in Kenya. I fear that our embassies and consulates across the world will suffer deadly retribution and many will have to be closed. And I also believe that America will, at some point, face the same-type suicide bombings that Israel is encountering. Just think about firing missiles and carpet-bombing an enemy you cannot see. It simply will not work and we should be smarter than that. There are many more intelligent ways to successfully fight a war against terrorists if we think more deeply. So far we have not. We have multi-thousands of troops scattered all over the globe, many of which should be returned to the US to guard our most vulnerable targets, of which there are many.
Having a difficult time accepting this? Well, one thing is certain; we, a nation of 280 million, are most definitely on a collision course with a world of 8 billion people, almost all of whom now totally disagree with our aggressive ambitions to dominate, and our great lust to acquire oil by force, no matter who may own it. And, yet, there is still time to reverse this madness! Can we, will we change this course?
My final question to the American people and the mainstream, corporate controlled media: Will you wake up, can you wake up? Do you not comprehend that this world is now at a flashpoint, a point of no return? If you cannot and will not, then there is no future for democracy in this nation. But, then, do you even care? Look into your mirror. There you will see your answer to this soul-searching question.
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