Osama bin Laden has been killed, so let the tribalist chants of USA begin (one tribalism mirrors another) , as an expression of the political irrationalism that has brought three wars, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. To what end? Our Imperial Wars simply came home to us in another form, replete with a shocking, savage brutality, on September 11,2001. A reality hard to face from a citizenry that considered themselves invincible,untouchable,exceptional !
Was there not a point at which the Grand Architects of American Foreign Policy even conjectured that the power that was wielded by America would ever be challenged, by powerless troglodytes financed by a rich Saudi, in the name of a re-imagined militant Islam, that followed the lead of The Muslim Brotherhood. The severe myopia of the great minds and the pretenders to a prescience, that did not exist, but was predicated in the propaganda freely espoused by the acolytes, the intellectual parasites in the vulgar press, that somehow a day of reckoning would not come, even if it might be insignificant. What we get is the same old tired triumphalist chatter in and on all the the mainstream bourgeois ‘News’ outlets. But Bin Laden and his idea and his money have fueled the concept of resistance to the American Juggernaut, framed in Islamist terms, and has spawned a thousand children and resistance is rife worldwide. We are in a corner. We freely make a twofold war: we make war on our own political traditions of the Constitution and The Bill of Rights and we make wars on an ever increasing number of fronts. How long can it continue?Is our treasury inexhaustible? Is a state of permanent war, on fronts domestic and foreign, the inevitability that Imperial America faces?
Was there not a point at which the Grand Architects of American Foreign Policy even conjectured that the power that was wielded by America would ever be challenged, by powerless troglodytes financed by a rich Saudi, in the name of a re-imagined militant Islam, that followed the lead of The Muslim Brotherhood. The severe myopia of the great minds and the pretenders to a prescience, that did not exist, but was predicated in the propaganda freely espoused by the acolytes, the intellectual parasites in the vulgar press, that somehow a day of reckoning would not come, even if it might be insignificant. What we get is the same old tired triumphalist chatter in and on all the the mainstream bourgeois ‘News’ outlets. But Bin Laden and his idea and his money have fueled the concept of resistance to the American Juggernaut, framed in Islamist terms, and has spawned a thousand children and resistance is rife worldwide. We are in a corner. We freely make a twofold war: we make war on our own political traditions of the Constitution and The Bill of Rights and we make wars on an ever increasing number of fronts. How long can it continue?Is our treasury inexhaustible? Is a state of permanent war, on fronts domestic and foreign, the inevitability that Imperial America faces?
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