Middle-East Policy Overload

“The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.”
– George Washington, Farewell Address – 

Yes indeed we have become a “slave” to our national leadership long “astray form its duty and its interest.” I am more convinced then ever before of the truth of it and well past the time for Americans to reconsider the posture which continues to drive this Nation into every-expanding global conflict; in fact I believe it is critical to a far greater issue: The survivability of the American Ideal. 

Since the days of President Woodrow Wilson’s gallant entrapment of the national spirit into “making the world safe for democracy” myth and then of course into World War I, the U.S. has never faltered in its willingness to engage in foreign wars and with rare exception they seem always to be proffered as an unavoidable component of freedom’s duty and yet long after the dead are buried and the weapons of war neatly stowed Americans are left to ask: Why? And, what have we gained for so terrible a price? 

After all rarely such a thing as “just wars” exist there are however more frequently contests of opportunity that we seem far too easily persuaded or induced into supporting as if our very existence depends on it; I don’t believe it does. 

“What must an adversary observe in our brand of democracy on the occasion we forcefully assert ‘our’ interests and in doing so we violate our stated ideals?” 

“The only feature which survives a Nation on permanent war-footing is the agonizing burden of avoidable loss.”
We Hold These Truths by C. Greco – 

Policy Overload 

It wasn’t that long ago that the current Secretary of State was padding her billings in Arkansas and busily trying to cover-over the unseemly doings of the Arkansas Redevelopment Agency (which gave as Whitewater); the Secretary of Defense too has a quirky sort of gradient as well: Former CIA Director (his appointment was met with strong objections, even by Sen. Feinstein, for his lack of intelligence experience; previously as the Director of the OMB under Pres. Clinton and before that a multi-term Congressmen from the incredibly well-run State of California and the President has a remarkable track record as a successful community organizer and this, my fellow Americans, is the naiveté and intellectual face of U.S. Foreign Policy on stage before the world and in your name. Any wonder the U.S. finds itself in the fabulous mess that is the current state of U.S. foreign affairs. 

George Washington’s position on foreign entrapment is quite clear: 

“As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils. Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter….There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion, which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.”
– George Washington, Farewell Address – 

By all means I recommend that every student of cause and effect should read his entire treatise but for now let me focus on one critical issue relating to the same: When Washington refers to “factions”, “councils” and “nation” he does not necessarily intend that we should think of these (only) in the form of representatives of Nations or as a Nations taken as a whole; they can surely include these but do not exclude proprietary economic interests as well as these are far more often the cause which merely and cleverly conceal themselves behind one flag, banner or mascot any of which can easily orchestrate events to tease and/or torment as specific outcome and it is these who are the greatest threats to your freedom; these and the week-minded who either knowingly or ignorantly do their bidding.  

For any American to look or view the world as it is today as being a function of evolutionary coincidence or consequential to a poorly scripted video on YouTube clearly is focusing too closely on fabricated mayhem. Moreover for the current administration to claim that the Middle-East disruption can be traced solely to this very same video precisely illustrates their adolescent command of Middle-East and Asian History and their dismissive attitude toward the American Public. 

Here are a few points to digest: 

1.  The advent of 9/11 must be seen as an Act of War one which was not only expected (known) but is more so an extension of Muslim theology the component of which is known as the Caliphate; the establishment of a global Islamic kingdom. This distinctly Muslim Ideal is presently being driven by Iran’s President, one Hahmoud Ahmadinejad. The fanaticism of these people works strategically favorable for the Russians and the Chinese. 

2. Simultaneously, and with consideration to the previous comment most conveniently, there is a battle for control of the Middle-East (the Mediterranean on the West, Pakistan on the East, the Black Sea on the North on down to the tip of South Africa) and this is being driven by purely economic interests. As with the British and the French before, they discovered it is far more economically efficient to control a people and their lands by owning the enterprise that rules them (this should sound very familiar to Americans). 

3. The enemy combatants are quite simply the U.S. (who front for the U.K. and the E.U. under the code name: NATO) and the Russian/Chinese and I assure you that they really don’t care how the process occurs and who’s bloodied in the process; ask yourself when was the last time you heard of a Secretary/Minister of State or Defense participating in front-line duty? The age old phrase, follow the money, is most applicable.  

4. You control a People by targeting their fears.  I recommend reading a recent article which goes by the title, Engineering An Election; We & Them, for more on this subject however suffice it to say one of the most effective one-word teasers has resurfaced once again and is making its way around the media-circus: Isolationism. Recently, in a WSJ article, the phrase “retreating from the world” was used to intimate this very thought however I find it quite disturbing that it would seem, for a Nation whose first President admonished posterity of its virtue (isolationism), inappropriate to some that the United States should focus on its own problems and leave the world to address its own; respectively.   

“…what the current Administration has done, in the current era, is to create a power-vacuum on par with the collapse of the former Soviet Union;” 

The reason the Middle-East Policy Overload is so troubling is that it is definitely a calculated form of national piracy; it is an outcome and present environment that appears to many Americans as ours to deal with and yet too few understand it as a function of design and thus one to reverse. Regardless of what one’s position might be as to the U.S.’s near perpetual military involvement around the globe no single person of clear and thoughtful deference to disciplined thought can dispute the following point: What the current Administration has done, in the current era, is to create a power-vacuum on par with the collapse of the former Soviet Union; what took nearly sixty years to accomplish (the fall of the Soviet Bloc) the Obama Administration has managed in a scant four years.  A few examples of the many available: 

  • Surrender of Missile Defense System to Russia.
  • Back peddling on U.S. demands to China on N. Korean nuclear development.
  • Subordinating U.S. territorial (ocean) to U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty.
  • Negotiating the transfer of Alaskan island chain to Russia.
  • Failure to confront China & Russia on their support of Iran’s nuclear development.
  • Submissive posturing throughout the Middle-East; Libya, Darfur, Israel, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Jordan to name a few.
  • Disabling of the U.S. Intelligence gathering structure.  

The fact that the U.S. is presently tethered to its present role as a global police force and that it may appear as if necessary ignores a few overriding truths: It was not inevitable, it is not an extension of our national identity and the entire mess is quickly unraveling. This entire construct of thought has done more to damage, quite possibly irreversible, to the American People and the American Identity than anyone seems willing to consider. 

I promise you that somewhere, at this very moment, a handful of pseudo-intellectuals are working a “structured premise”; a scenario of “here we are now; we want to get there; what move do we make next to advance our ambition” believing that if they can minimize the unintended consequences (see item #1 above) of collateral-yet-sustainable-damage the financial markets will rebound, the Chinese will recede, the Russians will return to their Black Sea Yachts, Oil will return to $71.40 per barrel, inflation will pull the U.S. out of the death-grip of economic depravity, the E.U. will survive in unitary bliss, the Military Complex will be economically viable once again, the Global Banking System will be saved and prosper valiantly and maybe, just maybe, we’ll let Obama have another term. Yes, I know, a conspiracy theorist opines; I wish it were as simple as an animated cartoon but it is not. The ambition of a global utopia micromanaged by a crop of pelagian elitist is quite simply the purest form of lunacy eclipsing the Nazi’s Thousand Year Reich by celestial proportions.  

In the end, 

What ultimately matters is the preservation of principled ambitions. There is and will never be a successful effort in reconciling western concepts with the Islamist’s creed; it is a prohibitive concept that is as contravening as one’s belief that they can stay dry in a monsoon by stepping between drops of rain and the fact that interests of the American People are represented by incompetent globalist ne’er-do-wells only serves to inflame the situation further.  

As a region, the Middle-East is a mass conflagration of 2000 plus hears of perpetual conflict in motion whose roots are organically linked to tribal rights and seasoned with the eccentricities of an extremist vantage; this is their right and their interests are in their rights and not in “economic interests” or a “world safe for democracy.”  As we can see, even after the British mapped the area during their reign of supremacy, little has occurred to change the face of the native tribal routines. We have however, through the pervasive merchandizing of armaments, made great strides in promoting a more efficient form of terror. 

The societal and economic burden of being too long engaged in political-economic war, sold as being our duty to make the world safe for democracy and designed to assert the globalist unilateral claim of economic interests, has neatly exhausted this once great nation and exposed it to a significant risk of yet another global conflict all of which was and is completely avoidable.   

If the U.S. is to restore its economic strength and a principled identity then the Nation will have to act in a manner that is as-if it where the case and take heed of this Country’s first President;  

“The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.” 

This Nation has been privilege by geography, resources and a constitutional ideal that exists nowhere but here and these features are not a function of isolationism but clearly justifies its protectionist features; these are neither aided or weakened by an age of immediate contact and spontaneous impulse; these are not supported or enhanced by the contrived concepts of globalism; these are not defeated by eccentricities of extremists; they are destroyed by something for more inconspicuous but no less deadly; your tolerance for being apathetically tolerant. 

Strength is in the virtue of ones objectives; character is defined by these objectives in action and though you may think in terms of political nuances it is far better for one to think as-if in terms of the higher ideals of virtue until such time as your actions are sufficiently motivated by them.  

Turning away from an unwanted conflict or reversing the course of errant judgment is not a sign of weakness; it is the higher ideal of virtue that both provides and defines strength. It is not at all difficult to find consensus in mediocrity as this is the nature of consensus; it far more difficult to create excellence but then this Nation’s Identity should always be to pursue it at all cost particularly when faced with the consensus of mediocrity.  

Curtis C. Greco, Founder

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