Time to face the obvious

What Mr. Bush called the end of major hostilities was actually the beginning. The U.S. occupying force…sorry, but there is no more accurate description…has its enemy embedded more deeply than the journalists ever were. And due to fate and guerilla action we've now lost more lives since the declared end of major hostilities than during the war.

This is not good.

Everyone, Repuglicans and Democrats alike, are "calling" for greater international participation. No one is facing an ugly fact: it is in the interest of almost every nation in the world, both friend and foe, that the USofA prove incapable of handling this affair.

The USofA, broke with world opinion and all international organizations to establish its dominance by a demonstration of irresistible military power. The intent is to cow all enemies but if it succeeds, all its allies will suddenly find themselves supplicants instead of lesser peers. The world will find itself globalized in a structure that is to empire what Jim Crow is to slavery.

It is not in our allies' best interest for us to actually lose, be forced to withdraw, in Iraq. What is in their interest is the the USofA be forced to ask for help on their terms. It is in their best interest to disprove the USofA's bold statement that our overwhelming military power (which, by the way, is totally neutralized in a guerilla war against an occupying force) enables us to rule by fiat,

And it will be disproved.

The USofA will either ask for help through the United Nations or bury itself by the combination of greater and greater military involvement at one billion dollars—that's a stack of $100 bills a kilometer tall—every week, increasing threats in the areas we must abandon to support the Iraqi crisis and a foolish economic policy that is creating an economy that is driven by intercorporate spending.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 7/21/2003 09:50:01 AM |