The Indirect Approach to American Foreign Policy

The Indirect Approach to American Foreign Policy

American foreign policy has been dominated by the question of preventing attacks on the Continental United States such as those that occurred on 9-11. I would have to argue that on balance the terrorist acts do not justify the response which has devastated two countries and has no end in sight, despite two declared ends to the Second Iraq War and an occupation of Afghanistan that has gone on longer than the Soviet intervention in the same country. The resolution to the current international tensions present in the world is that the United States should stop supporting covert operations in which the right hand of the federal government does not know what the left hand is doing, and stay out of regions in which is has no actual national interest like the Ukraine. Leaving aside the aforementioned crisis in Ukraine and the sequel to the Cold War which the human race can only hope will get stuck in development hell, the primary conflict the United States is engaged in is called the War on Terrorism. Terrorism, legally speaking is only the threat of violence to accomplish objectives, and there exist criminal statues for dealing with the act, statutes which have been applied to countless everyday people in situations ranging from altercations to domestic disturbances. So the idea is so vast as to include ordinary people decidedly not Islamic, let alone foreign.

Then there is the question of method: BH Liddel Hart, a noted strategist, favors an indirect approach to warfare, and it stands in direct opposition to the hyper-power approach followed by the American government post September 11th. Often cited as the 'good war' by vast swathes of the political spectrum, World War 2 was far less interventionist than any war since. Indeed, during the lead up to the war, Americans did not assist Spain during the Spanish Civil War and American companies helped arm and fuel Franco through various mechanisms. That is, the United States did not intervene in Europe in some attempt to prevent the rise of Fascism like it did post Great War to attempt to strangle Bolshevism in its cradle.

The American response to the destruction of three buildings in the World Trade center complex can best be analogized with an example using hypothetical real people. Suppose a kid, who could be rightly called a punk, puts a brick through a man's window, who could be named 'Sam'. This punk causes some damage harms or kills members of Sam's family and runs. Sam is angry and finds where the punk is staying, and in this case, he is a guest in someone else's home. Sam goes, kills members of the family he is staying with, and lays claim to the damaged home. But the punk escapes. Rather than track him down, Sam attacks a neighboring home because they shared similar interests with the Punk, claiming that he never liked the shady nature of the residents in the second household anyway. This is what America did in launching two invasions, killing hundreds of thousands and rendering millions homeless in a hopeless act of retributive justice which has left the U.S. looking like a unipolar rogue state. The recent contradictions relating to Syria are grand. America armed Syrian rebels to destroy the sole remaining secular Arab regime that had cooperated with it against Sunni terrorists in the past, and now claims a faction of the people it armed are so great a threat that it will again re-enter Iraq and attack targets in Syria after the American population clearly rejected direct intervention against the Damascus government.

The opposition to the idea of not intervening abroad is sure to include the moralistic component that underlies American politics. Americans are as outraged at a beheading as Romans were at the accounts of the Wicker Man ceremony. There is the constant glorification of military service in popular culture, which is a far cry from what most military personnel experience when they learn to 'hurry up and wait'. Self sacrificial ideas are at the heart of Western Culture, which draws its obvious inspiration from Christianity. Terrorism is an asymmetrical response to the American 'hyperpower'. There is a fear of this force, which managed to hijack planes, get past NORAD and accomplish what the major empires in the 20^th Century never could: a strike on the American homeland. It was a strike against the financial and government centers. The fear of this, and desire to change the Middle East through military action is understandable. Why not maintain such a military presence as we do when there are such wide-ranging threats? The post World War 2 Red Army was scary, and the existence of the military industrial complex grew out of a desire to dominate the Soviets and prevent a Red Pearl Harbor. There is a certain wisdom in being afraid of people who hold the Salafist interpretation of Islam and who have no obvious fear of death despite obvious American superiority on all levels. Islam is not a simple weak faith. There is a history of conflict between Islam and every other religion it encounters, and a theocratic impulse towards establishing religion. The American Republic even fought wars early on against Barbary pirates.

Fear of Islam in general ignores the disparate interpretations of Islam. It also ignores the modern roots of the Salafist organizations which has root in the very interventionist approach that is supposed to solve it. Fighting this global movement with military force merely leads to the replacement of the destroyed terrorist network with that of another, ad infinitum. 9/11 would have been best prevented by following existing protocol, or perhaps not fermenting religious extremism in Afghanistan, nor of setting up the apparatus for a modern Jihadist movement to kick the Russians out of this country. Surprise attacks are not going to occur as a result of state actors, and if it remains the role of the U.S. Military to combat other nations, and not small non-state groups, it should not be forward deployed in the current manner.

What would a voluntary withdrawal from the world stage look like and how could it be accomplished? Bases in Europe are antiquated. NATO should have been dismantled post Cold War, its expansion is absurd. A treaty with Russia, of whatever form, is the best way to redress any grievances. Putin is not Stalin. Massive commitments in the middle east have destroyed two countries and dismantled one terrorist network, merely to see another rise on its ashes out of American desire to overthrow Bashar Al Asaad. These conflicts are not something America should be involved in. American commitment to Israel began in 1973, so the fact that this relationship is regarded as sacrosanct is odd. Syria and Iran are nations with whom we need to be negotiating. Our commitments in the pacific are likewise nonsensical. North Korea is so starved and poor that if it ever crossed the DMZ its soldiers would spend more time eating than fighting. South Korea is perfectly capable without the American presence of arming and defending itself. China is not some Maoist backwater, but now the second largest economy on earth. Japan was long ago capable of building a navy and air force to defend itself and the idea of such a country being under our 'defense umbrella' is insane. Afghanistan is a choice of occupying a country until the end of time in order to force its various groups to continue pretending to be a nation or to bring the troops home and let that country sort itself out.

Humans are capable of great iniquity to one another in the name of conflicting metaphysical values, and the world can be a scary place, especially when viewed through a media filter that is owned, operated, and held in place by a handful of companies. Sensationalist internet reports, cable news of whatever bent broken by commercials to convince you that you are undersexed, unhealthy, or otherwise flawed certainly causes the person watching such programming to become more insecure about themselves and the environment. But this ignores cold hard actuarial fact that Americans are far more likely to be killed by a black uniformed police officer than a terrorist. It ignores the fact that this exact kind of paranoia led to the world wide atrocity called the Cold War and the subsequent war against the Third World that has never stopped. It ignores the fact that if you act as an empire you will be subject to the deprivations of liberty inherent in imperial action. It ignores the destruction of rights, whether they be natural or simply invented that should form the rational basis for society. It ignores the militarization of the police which has recently led to near revolt in Missouri. It ignores the fact that men who hold ideas can be killed, but the ideas themselves do not die. 'No man, no problem' doesn't kill the meme of the person that you killed. There is no way to democratize the middle east, or the police borders drawn up in centuries long struggles that predated the United States. We cannot kill our way to world peace, nor is this the sole national responsibility of the paramount world power.

Our Choices in the Election

What is the Cheddar at the End of the Rat Race?

'The use of money does not disestablish the normal process of creating credit. Money, it is true, is always being paid into the banks by the retailers and others who receive it in the course of business, and they of course receive bank credits in return for the money thus deposited. But for the manufacturers and others who have to pay money out, credits are still created by the exchange of obligations, the banker's immediate obligation being given to his customer in exchange for the customer's obligation to repay at a future date. We shall still describe this dual operation as the creation of credit. By its means the banker creates the means of payment out of nothing, whereas when he receives a bag of money from his customer, one means of payment, a bank credit, is merely substituted for another, an equal amount of cash.'

 Economist Ralph George Hawtrey, Currency and Credit (1919)

Christmas

Whenever you talk about putting the Christ back in Christmas, I can't help but think I would rather put Saturn back in Saturnalia.

What would Machiavelli Do?

The first order of business is some sort of treaty with Russia. That within itself is a deeper issue than can be discussed here. The Ukrainians need to be abandoned in favor of allies who did not support Hitler during WW2. The military balance with Russia has inverted from the Cold War days, and their conventional capability is not strong but their nuclear one is. American nuclear development was initially a response to Russian conventional superiority, now Russia lacks this and retains nuclear weapons as a trump card against the U.S. But we would have to settle accounts. Of all the things we learned post-Cold War with the opening of the archives, this much is clear- there never was a missile gap or a serious threat of the Iron Curtain extending westward. But McCarthy may have been correct in many of assertions regarding communist influence but then its a question of how much respect one pays to freedom of speech.

On the 'Yellow Peril' Version 2: The Chinese do not have a navy to match ours. It appears they are trying to build one, yet America required a half-century cold war of military spending to build its forces. China will not catch up for a long time. It’s a major head-start. In any armed conflict, China lacks a nuclear force of any size to threaten the U.S., and the PLAN/PLA Air Force would not doubt be destroyed without offering much resistance.

All major nations: Europe, Israel, India, Russia are under threat from terrorism so cooperation between them all would go a long way. You fight terrorism effectively in the international arena and with small precise forces.

The United States would then pursue a peaceful settlement of the Syrian Civil War, with Bashar signing away his alliances with Iran and Hizbullah in exchange for the U.S. To cease supporting the anti-government forces in his country and the carrot to offer him would be intelligence cooperation on cutting the jihadists out of his country. US forces could operate in a limited fashion in North Iraq with an eye to keep the Kurds safe while diminishing ISIS.

Ever wondered why Middle East or Afghanistan has exceptionally retarded borders? The Sykes-Picot Agreement. America is attempting to enforce borders drawn by the same red-coated idiots our forefathers fought a long and bloody war to over-throw. History is ironic in the extreme. People arguing for the partition of Iraq seem to think that the current constitution ignored regional autonomy or that a division would magically end the existing tensions. Neither is the case, and either way you slice the pie, you will end up with a very messy desert to the Second Iraq Conflict. Keep this in mind: the Sunnis and Shias are killing each other over a disagreement about who should be Caliph. The Caliph ceased to exist during the break-up of the Ottoman Empire. The ultimate question dividing Sunni/Shia has existed since the 7^th Century. The Ethnic divisions in Iraq date to Ottoman-Safavid Wars.

Iran has had much time to prepare for war with the U.S and any military confrontation with them has to have this in mind. Operations from northern Iraq could threaten Tehran. Mutual defense agreements with bordering states are a plus. The Iranian military could easily fall back its own hinterland, but any attempt to cut the straits of Hormuz would require large numbers of men and expose them south of the Zagros Range. Destroying these forces in a potential war would be necessary. The Iranian response would mean terrorism across the region. But with ISIS pushing to Baghdad the Shiites there will be distracted. Kurdistan should be supported, even at the cost of Turkey. Kuzestan is ripe with Sunni tension and there has to be a better use for some of the Gitmo inmates somewhere. Israel could be told to deal with Hezbullah, which it could do, thus rending the Iranian response useless. Iranian terrorism is not a threat and neither are nukes. The biggest worry in regards to Iran developing such weapons would be a nuclear arms race in the region with Saudi Arabia developing nuclear weapons to combat the Iranians, and what you then have is the most religiously extreme Salafist supporting state in the area with nuclear weapons and only a slight grip on power to prevent these weapons from going to the same people that carried out 9/11 itself.

Of course, Machiavelli would probably be confused as to why a country that was recently discovered across the Atlantic was in the middle of Mesopotamia.

Of course, Machiavelli would probably be confused as to why a country that was recently discovered across the Atlantic was in the middle of Mesopotamia.

With leadership like William 'I sure Ain't Jefferson' Clinton, Vice Commander in Chief George 'Constitution Burning Bush' and Dick Cheney, we are sure to bungle every conflict. With people like these running the show, such wars are inevitable, and the blow-back from each of these administrations would be enough to challenge any president, let alone the national joke currently in office.

Relationship 101

Common Decency Is No Longer Common

-Don't bear dead weight. That is the job of casket bearers. If its dead, Let it be. Every demon inhabits their own hell.
-If someone treats you as a mistake, let reality do the heavy lifting when you know you are in the right. Only a sociopath feels no remorse or regret.
-Hate is the easy road, and carrying grudges indicative of a weaker nature unfit for survival.
-Passive abuse is still abuse. People who excuse their own actions via situations really believe in a sort of ethics that is not worthy of the term. Anyone playing the victim card is a few aces short of a full deck. Pity is a dangerous emotion in either direction
-Sometimes forgiving is the only route for a mature person. If you can't do this, good luck in life because life itself can be far harsher than anything one person can do to you
-Heuristics are useful. If someone does not fit what you know to be a rationally and healthy reaction, hit the road and refer them to a professional.
-Sharing your body with someone and then never speaking to them is generally a sick setup. Death is final. Cutting people off right and left is a great way to lock yourself in the very negative states of mind that produce personal and interpersonal problems. Self-fulfilling prophecy is a sad truth. If you talk to no one you have dated, this usually means there are two sides to the coin and perhaps you are part of the problem.
-If you throw someone away, do not be surprised when they move on. Only children at the pre-operational stage are incapable of realizing actions do not have consequences. If someone gives you their best and you give them your worst, don be surprised when they figure out they might deserve something better.
-Take care when you have someone's heart. If you lack the ability to pick up on emotional ques from someone you are sleeping with, take steps to increase emotional intellect.
-Don't mess with someone's ego or money. People are not means to an end, and if you treat someone like something that has expended its value, you will likely get a bad reaction.
- A fight is a nice dance in which two angry people prove just how bad that state of mind is
-Get an animal before you expect unconditional love
-Apologies, when issued, should be given a chance. There is no interaction between two people that will not include hurdles.
-If someone is hurt when a break up happens, it means they cared. For all you know, you were a peak experience. Be careful who you seek advice from in these situations because it could be that those you rely upon were never able to form the attachment you are severing. Do not treat an uncommonly good partner like something common.
-Time will put everything in perspective. It may take a lot of time, but if you are a functioning person with a conscience you will not forget the wrongs you have done another person. Honor promotes good sleep. Only death is final and if you seek this kind of end with someone who loves you, you will likely end up dying alone or relying on your own children to care for you when they themselves should be living which you never learned to do.
-Pulling away from another person in stress means that you are only capable of being a good person during fair weather times. People are supposed to grow together, and anyone using variations of the 'its not you, its me' approach are still stuck in the teenage years mentally. Don't be surprised when you end up with more of the same when you demolish that which was different.
-If you have been single for a long time, take care to re-develop those skills with the person you are with. Real love is a learned thing especially in regards to romance, and what one sees as a child from one's parents will set the course for what one thinks is healthy.
-feelings change. All things have impermanence. But don't expect anything genuine to go away on a whim. Common dating advice is only fit for common people.
-If genuine emotion scares someone away, or you think it might, that should scare you away from them. Fantasy and reality are very different in this regard. If you seek an endless platonic ideal in a partner you will miss out on many genuine people along the way.
-Love is different in each interaction. Do not waste time on romantic notions of the past.
-Break ups are isolating times, but only a malicious person does so in a manner which is disrespectful and takes none of the other person's needs into account. 

Historical Amnesia

How did we get here? Bad philosophy. Someone said that a long time ago (Rand). Her solution was a belief in a mythic capitalism. But why can’t America find the way out of this edge we have crossed over?

On Being Civilized

Generally speaking the first cultures who settled along river valleys did so after many generations of subsisting in a horticulture environment. Settled life gradually adopted intensive agriculture and developed a government, some say in order to enable people to do this. There is a loss of health which is apparent in a comparison between hunter-gathers and their counterparts living in cities. Historically speaking, there was always a large mass of non-settled peoples who chose not to live in this sort of arrangement: Germanic tribes to the north of Rome, Laplanders in Scandinavia, or peoples from the Central Asian Steppe. Recently, this has changed with the last hunter-gather non-settled peoples being pushed to the absolute margins.

Benefits to living in society depend on the specific nature of the society in question. But generally, they are easy access to food which you do not have to kill or grow yourself. On the other side of this coin there is a loss of agricultural and hunting knowledge which makes on dependent on the supply chain, and in the case of the modern West, Just in Time delivery. This could cause problems in a crisis, for example most Americans do not even have the relatively simple skills involved in growing a vegetable garden which got their grandfathers or great grandparents through the depression or that allowed people to supplement their diet during rationing imposed in the Second World War.

If the medieval age of faith was overthrown, it has been replaced in turn by a level of trust unknown in non-first world countries. The belief in the goodness of man has enabled some to gain absolute power over the use of force, and has led the rest to simply trust that this will be done in a just and even handed way. Justice here is meant as a sort of impartiality and respect for the rule of law which should be the guiding principle of any social contract.

The question of the sacrifice of freedoms is an old question. Thomas Hobbes viewed stateless society as that of a war of all against all. That is, every person was thought to be so self interested that he would simply do what he wanted unless held down by an authority so vast and terrorizing that he could do nothing but submit to it. Hunter-gatherers appear to have a vast amount of free time; the sort of back breaking labor that the peasant is subjected to in the first societies was unknown, as well as class distinctions. The Peasants after all only existed because there was enough food to allow them to be born and fed; the life of hunting and gathering is one that exists on the margin of starvation. Civilization gives humans the power over environment, and in a time-obsessed modern society in a post Ford/Taylor world it gives the illusion of power of the fifth dimension. Or at least, gives us the pressing sense that the time between waking and sleeping must be accounted for by socially acceptable behaviors such as work, school, approved hobbies or avocations.

Hegel

It seems the formula of any conspiracy documentary is Carmina Burana playing in the background, with a bunch of out of context quotations, and usually a reference to the Hegelian Dialectic. Well, here is a summary of what Hegel presents in his Philosophy of Right

Hegel
    Hegel wrote during a period of romantic thinking following the Napoleonic wars. His chief view is that of upholding the status quo. Like all thinkers, we went through a period of development. His writings form a trinity, with the philosophy of right being the political part with a corresponding logic and ethics. He ends up defending the system of his day while upholding a pseudo-metaphysical view that mankind must develop into a spiritual being through education, take his place in society, become a political being by living in a state, and then act out the force of god in history which he sees as the thesis/anti-thesis duality for which he is best known, and most misunderstood.
    The Philosophy of Right (as it is usually called) begins with a discussion of the concept of the will exercising itself though social relation. A person is only truly free in society which is opposed to the ideal of freedom which in its platonic idea is seen as a state of nature. Hegel then discusses the ethical life. Ethical life encompasses all and he discusses all of this in relation to the state. One is at a disadvantage when reading Hegel and not having command of German. He is not a first rather author, like a Nietzsche or Schopenhauer and seems to cloak in language in academic verbosity, while not crossing the line of an Immanuel Kant and inventing words out of thin air. It is useful to define some terms while discussing his work. There is the concept of Einzelheit, the immediate individuality which confronts that which is before it in nature. Dasein is the phrase for existence, later used by Heidegger to define 'being'. Aktionen means the right of action, which is part of what Hegel means by rights. His discussion of freedom follows. Hegel is an Idealist philosopher in the most literal sense. He goes so far as to resurrect the Ideas of Plato. He says freedom is usually wanted in the abstract. That is, people want the Idea of Freedom rather than its actuality. He thinks that institutions are made up of individuals and hated by those who desire for freedom because they do not want actual freedom and see these agencies with their distinctive characteristics as made  up of individuals. He thinks that the state is the end of all humans, and serves the force of god in history. His discussion of contracts is the discussion of wills in relation to ownership. People are assumed to be persons even if they do not act like them. Law presupposes that all those governed by the laws to be persons. Hegel defines this as such. Hegel uses the term geist to denote mind, but it can also mean spirit. Personality contains in general the capacity for right. Sachen is the right of persons and things. Sitte means custom. He sees custom as a natural part of society. 'Custom is what law and morality have not reached, namely, spirit'.
Personality is that which acts to overcome. Right is primarily that immediate existence which freedom gives itself in an immediate way. There is a difference between his concept of will and the general will of Rousseau. In relation to property ones will becomes external to another will. Each will is distinctive.
Social institutions have their own character but are made up of individual wills. Rationality consists in general in the unity and interpenetration of universality and individuality. Hegel opposes general will. This means he has issues with the common social contract paradigm. Property is part of a persons self-concept. Property is the “embodiment of personality,” says Hegel. Contract and exchange define individuals. Institutions arise from competing wills, do not have a will of their own, but manage to find their personalities as institutions. Habit, is learned, but appears 2nd nature. Education is the art of making human beings ethical according to Hegel. This is where his view of Right comes into confluences with his views of Spirit. Ethical sphere- includes everything. The person is to be transformed from a natural one into a second spiritual nature and this becomes habitual. This is his goal of education. His idea of the dialectic is that of opposing forces acting on each other to produce synthesis. This is misunderstood in common times to be a sort of strategy by political elites. But in reality Hegel views this as happening on all levels- from the person all the way up to the society.
    In his Master versus slave dialectic, Hegel basically says  a person should have a consciousness based on life for itself rather than being confined in its own mind. This is the meaning of the master and slave dialectic. This makes sense. But Hegel creates a few problems in his philosophical career. The first would be his legacy. The Right  and Left Hegelians confused the Hegelian legacy in the extreme by literally being on opposing sides during the revolutions of 1848. His attribution to the Marxist camp is highly doubtful and even more so with the Fabian socialism that characterized the intellectual class in England for the reminder of its history until the present day. Hegel's influences and influence on Prussia is complicated. He appears to have simply formulated a theory and seen to it that it fit the powers that be. Prussia was highly centralized, full of censorship and practiced conscription on a mass scale even before it became common in the Napoleonic Wars. Hegel speaks of international law in the closing and seems to predict some of the 20th century developments in that area. The main area where Hegal errors is that he preached a metaphysics which elevated collectivism to the extreme. The state is the actuality of freedom. It is upheld by the state being the destiny of individuals. He does not put violence into the equation and believes people should be. 'Union is the destiny of individuals'. Hegel makes many dangerous collectivist assumptions. He thinks that humanity should be taught to reach its highest potential, which for him is to be a citizen of a state. Why is it human destiny to live in a state? It is clear that 90% of human history was lived without a state, so it is unclear why this would be the case. Fundamental Hegelian error is in assuming that the state is the actuality of the Idea of Ethics. He seems to criticize idealism in regards to freedom, but does not turn this criticism against his own idealism. The problem with Hegel is that he is an idealistic philosopher. God is the logic of History. Why is history intertwined with the notion of god? Again, God is not really defined but is simply used as a sort of stock phrase. He is attempting to say that history has a grand rationality. He is defending the idea of progress. In the end, Hegel is saddled with bad translators on top of unclear and bad prose. It is doubtful the English-speaking world ever would have been able to appreciate even the literary greatness of a Nietzsche without Walter Kaufmann's translations.

The Bush Years: Why You Can't Just Blame The Black Guy

THE BURNING BUSH: GB 2

“Some of the biggest men in the US and in commerce and manufacturing know that there is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when condemning it.”

-Woodrow Wilson

George W Bush:

This guy did more coke than Lenny Bruce and got away with it. This guy served in the National Guard, probably went AWOL, all while men of courage fought a fruitless war in Vietnam. This guy got a DWI, and walked away without real penalty.

What follows is a brief family tree, because it is important to know where we come from, whether we be Presidents appointed by the Supreme Court or an actual man on the street-

His family is establishment east coast. He is not a Texan in any sense. Bush's grandfather made his money trading with the Nazis among other things while working for Brown Brothers Harriman. Bush One made his money in oil, and has been implicated in Reagan's October surprise involving trading arms with Iran for holding the hostages until after the election. Bush Uno served as an ambassador to the Communist Chinese after America opened China, and the results of some of his work can be seen in your latest economic predictions projecting China's rise to economic hegemon over the United States in short order, and your latest job loss numbers in manufacturing and textiles, as well as whatever Chinese made electronic device you last used which broke as soon as you opened the package. Quality control in these factories must simply consist of checking for worker's body parts on or in the finished product. Daddy Bush also ran the CIA for about a year, helping it appear to keep its proverbial nose clean after the Church Committee Hearings. It would speculation to blame him for the involvement with Islamic Extremists in Afghanistan, though it is clear the U.S. Was supporting various factions there prior to the Soviet invasion with the goal of destabilizing the Communist Kabul government in typical cold war fashion. Some have also said that Bush 1 worked for the CIA long before running it, but like all things properly secret, this cannot be proven. GWB's father presided over the original Iraq war after building up Saddam through the 80s. This war was properly commanded, but it remains to be answered why the American diplomatic corps told Saddam that we would not interfere if he invaded Kuwait, or why a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family was paraded into Congress to spread false stories involving babies being thrown out of incubators that the small Arab state did not have. This is the family tree of the 43^rd President, and represents his pedigree. George Walker Bush was uneventful and rather normal, except that he chose Yale as his party school instead of lets say LBJ going to Southwest Texas. His fraternal choice, one picked by many in his income bracket, was a society deep in black magic, satanic iconography, and homoerotic hazing practices known as the Skull and Bones. The 'Skulls' by Anthony Sutton is a good account of its origins. If a British Scholar is too conspiratorial for you, you can try the Secrets of the Tomb. Needless to say, allegations of the future anointed president involves cocaine, and large amounts of alcohol by his own admission. His later career included running businesses into the ground by running them as well as any future federal official would and spending business funds like a sober congressman. The election in 2000 was hotly contested, with the ultimate decision going to the Supreme Court, where he was given the Presidency. It was an uneventful start of his term, as uneventful a Presidency as was his Governorship of Texas- that is until 9/11. On this day, three thousand individuals were murdered by a shadowy network of Islamic radicals who spent their time going to strip clubs, drinking and buying round trip tickets for a kamikaze mission.

Dusting off existing pentagon plans for overthrowing the Taliban, the United States military made short work of that government. The culmination of the campaign was the assault on Tora Bora. Using poorly trained militia as proxies, the escape routes were not cut off, and it was said that bin Laden slipped into Pakistan. Then something curious happened in regards to the Taliban, the so-called Airlift of Evil. In short this was a Pakistani airlift of these Taliban fighters out of Afghanistan, also known as the Kunduz airlift, saw many escape the American assault. The planes were chartered by Pakistan, and it is said, officially sanctioned by Cheney who wished for Pakistan to have its way. Musharraf, on his end, made dubious arguments regarding the act. In some diabolical deal, the populations of both nations were sold out by elected leaders who then turned about-face and in Hitler-style proceeded to destroy their respective constitutions. One could speculate that the public relations methods of both leaders were similar. Since foreign policy was the main focus of the Bush Years, more has to be said of this subject before moving on to just how Bush destroyed the American constitution as if the American people were some third world populace with a federal constabulary force occupying it.

This action in Afghanistan was wrought by problems from the beginning. A question to ask of this war would be: Is this response proportional to the deaths inflicted by terrorism?

The statistics are as follows:

1600 a year average casualties in 8 years of the Patterns of Global Terrorism study, most of these non-American, with the big mac clearly coming in first as a weapon of mass destruction ahead of Jihadis following a 7^th century 'prophet's' dictums that many in the Islamic world have chosen to no longer take literally. This against the numbers in the Lancet report, and let us accept the official numbers for civilian death in Afghanistan. This hovers at 17-21 thousand. Then factor in soldiers deaths and the dislocation that this causes for the families at home, and the psychological state of those returning from deployment from the longest war in American history with the longest stretches of continuous combat. Clearly, then, the reaction to terrorism is entirely out of bounds of proportionality, and America would do better to drop Joint Direct Attack Munitions on your food service chain than it would brown people who more often than not are in the wrong place at the wrong time. But Afghanistan was not the end. Osama, free to escape into Pakistan, had failed to launch another large attack. Iraq was next. Clearly, the intelligence failure leading to the Iraq War could be excused as complete stupidity. This conflict has been a great way for professional liars in the CIA to continue collecting government salaries, and creeps in the NSA to continue collecting the largest child pornography cache in the world at tax payer expense. A sane society would ask itself if it would be better off printing money onto toilet paper along with copies of the Constitution onto baby-wipes, and the Declaration on paper towels for use in Federal facilities; since the America Intelligence services are the best funded in the world, and are supposed to have missed both the coming of 9-11 and the Non-existence of the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction. The idea that Bush lied is simplistic. However, he is a politician, so it should be assumed that when he engages in the act of speech the contents of his language will be in direct variance to objective truth at all times. The idea that it was all a big mistake, the 2^nd Big Mistake following the fact that 9/11 was not prevented, is also simplistic. But this much we know: the Bush administration paid columnists to put out false stories slanting the lead-up to the war to fit their view of what would happen. This view would cost thousands of people their lives and trillions in funds to wage the war. In hindsight, we know that Saddam was interrogated by an FBI Agent and admitted that he had to create the impression that he still had the weapons in order to deter the Iranians from coming in his country, and creating the very Shia-Crescent which now runs from Iran to Lebanon.

The invasion itself was simple and quick, with Baghdad taken in short order. The second rate third world army which had once been the 4^th Largest in the world now simply melted away, and whatever industry was left after a decade of sanctions was devastated by the near invincible air force of the U.S.

The Saddam Statue came down, it seemed in according to the near Sun Tzu like strategically sage advice given by Dick Cheney. There is a problem with this iconic symbol of victory: The toppling of the Saddam statue by members of the iraqi expat community was staged under the direction of army psychological operations. The occupation that was not supposed to be then ensued with a requisite guerrilla war. What is clear is that low intensity conflicts include a high amount of civilian deaths. This was reflected in the Lancet Report, who estimated the ultimate death toll in Iraq reaching the hundreds of thousands. Of course war is total, and one could argue that the amount of deaths in this conflict was far lower than those previously in sheer numbers if not percentage of combatant to non-combatant. But really- it is hard not to have a moral high ground when the historical antecedents are area bombing, genocide, and nuclear assaults. The fact is that these people died as a result of an invasion which was launched by the United States. The war for oil raised oil prices, and ended with foreign companies making the lion's share of profits.

But this was not the end of the wars during these years. Iran was clearly next-it stirred the pot in Iraq, funding Sadr to fight the Americans, and exporting radical clerics. This led to the next cooperation between America and Sunni Salafist Al-Qaeda elements. Not wanting to risk an all-out war, and perhaps learning from its mistakes, or perhaps under the auspices of local agents who kept their superiors in the dark for the purposes of plausible deniability, a covert War against Iran began and the funding of Al Qaeda in Khuzestan began in order to try to destabilize the Iranian province richest in oil, and the very area in which Saddam and Khomeni fought their most brutal battles.

So much for the foreign policy.

The best summary of the domestic policy of George Bush junior is this: George W Bush was a socialist. This is not surprising given the middle of the road policies of his father, and his grandfathers support for the National Socialist Workers Party even when the United States was at war with that government.

The domestic agenda of George Bush began with No Child Left Behind. This was a national mandate for education. He then passed Medicare Part D, otherwise known as the prescription drug benefit. These policies were both heavily socialistic. His faith based initiatives simple provided Federal Welfare funds to churches and expanded them. His tax cuts were well known an controversial. The battle of the death tax was framed in a way that most people assumed the tax effected the them when it only affected the super rich. But clearly, he rolled back taxes while skyrocketing the deficit.

Defecations on the Constitution became a part of the Bush Years. First, random Muslims were rounded up without due process in response to 9/11 following the PATRIOT Act. This act was already on the shelf, and had been something that the Federal Government was itching for. It was the exact type of legislation sought after Oklahoma City and was not written after the fact to respond to 9/11. The idea of 'free speech zones' became common, with the first amendment being only a variable thing rather than a natural right of free beings. Domestic spying, long practiced by-proxy through ECHELON was instead directly practiced. The 4^th Amendment was destroyed, with many erroneously pointing out there was no right laid out in the constitution for privacy, which clearly ignores the whole point of the 4^th Amendment and the existence of the 9^th Amendment. Posse Commitaus was allowed to die on the vine, and the first stirrings of a North Com were made, establishing a command for the continental US. Drones began to be used for targeted killings abroad with late implications. Homeland Security was established, along with a TSA to screen passengers at airports. No change was made to immigration policy. Lt Col Anthony Schaffer was ignored as he tried to point out that he had identified the hijackers and was providing information to his superiors regarding them before the attacks. Sibel Edmonds, who claimed to have evidence of both traitors within the government and direct links between elements in the U.S. Intelligence community with bin Laden up to 9/10 was put under indictment. No one was fired for the debacle of 6 jets scrambling to intercept the planes. Instead average Americans would be expected to pay for the mistakes via inflation of the currency through massive over-reach overseas and the destruction of their natural rights at home. But Bush, the Socialist, was not done.

The North American Union was a common name given to the plan to merge the security forces of both the United States, Mexico and Canada, three countries already joined by NAFTA in matters of trade. Now, Bush appeared to be setting up NAFTA to be the North American equivalent of the European Community which preceded the actual EU. The name of the agreement was the Security and Prosperity Partnership and would merge the three counties security apparatuses. The Law of the Sea Treaty came next: While on the surface, a good treaty supporting the environment and equal access among nations, it in fact gave the UN permit power and taxing power. It was supported by Bush and later, by Clinton and Obama. Bush favored this. The borders remained open, while Mexico rapidly descended into an undeclared civil war that would costs more lives than America lost in Vietnam. Thus the President who was said to have disregarded the international community to the chagrin of liberals and to the 'Merica chants of NASCAR fans everywhere was actually working to reduce American sovereignty and give defacto amnesty to immigrants who came to America illegally, all while posing as a reincarnation of the near mythical Reagan-Messiah figure the Republican Party pointed to for its claim to be conservative.

George Bush destroyed the Constitution via the Patriot Act. The military was committed in two countries cleaning up messes made by British map makers post Sykes-Picot in the first official chicken-hawk administration where the president was a known deserter and the VP could not even be trusted to aim a shotgun correctly. Two The economy was left on the vine to die by a fed chairman who once championed a gold standard, but promptly forgot his 'Randian Principles' at the first grasp of power. Socialism marched under the banner of the elephant, an animal of native intelligent which is surely insulted by its association with the Republican party. The Jackass still carried its burdens of centrist corporate sponsored fools who mouthed populist motifs while signing bills they never read written by the bipartisan K-Street vipers otherwise known as lobbyists. 'Wall Street Got Drunk'- such were the Bush Years, a bender from which America still struggles to kick the hangover. Despite the claims of hope and change, it was clear from early campaign speeches in 2008 that this would be a hangover that would last for a bit. On the one side was a PTSD case only nationally known because he happened to not know how to fly aircraft, and a man on the other side who was a literal unknown. It was a one party system now- not the Elephant or the Donkey- it was the time of the internationalist-militaristic-march-to the bottom party. It was the time of the new politicians, sweet in speech, acting like marionettes their part of mutual rancorous worldviews but pragmatic every day common ground. This new Republicrat party could best be symbolized by the jackal, or the parasites running in his intestines.

Texas History, Post-7th Grade

Anglos described by one Spanish official:

'Nomadic like Arabs....distinguished only from savages in their color, language and cunning'

New Spain had a five million population with half being Indians. Interesting fact for someone claiming a low number for the native inhabitants of North America.

The Texas Revolution

There was not much that was done in Texas that was revolutionary, though people use the words revolution, rebellion, and separatism to mean the same thing. It was an attempt to break away from a national government, not to remake society.

The myth of the Texas revolution has about as much in common with the reality of the events in 1836 as the movie 300 would with the events described by Herodotus. It event has its basic racial stereotypes (The Persians are black for some reason in the movie; the depiction of Mexicans is decidedly negative in the 'Texas Revolution myth' even though they too rebelled against Santa Anna), Davy Crockett was the subject of several 'dime-novels'(comics can be considered to be descended from these). The idea of an actual race war is implicit in the accounts of the Texas Revolution. There are wider issues of an American populace used to federalism and a legal-system based on common law. But these following quotes will help illuminate the attitudes that led both sides to the conflict.

“A war of barbarism and of despotic principles, waged by the Mongrel Spanish-Indian and negro race against the anglo-american race”

Stephen Austin, quoted pg 134

David Weber Refighting the Alamo: Mythmaking and the Texas Revolution

Major Problems in Texas History

“I looked upon the Mexicans as scarce more than apes”

-Noah Smithwich, pg 135

David Weber Refighting the Alamo: Mythmaking and the Texas Revolution

Major Problems in Texas History

But to be fair the racism stream ran had two banks.

“Just as the Goths, Ostrogoths, Alans and other tribes devastated Rome.....”

-Report of a Mexican Committee on Foreign Relations, pg 135

David Weber Refighting the Alamo: Mythmaking and the Texas Revolution

Major Problems in Texas History

So clearly, during his own life Crockett was a subject of myth. So any battle involving him will be easier to deal with than the complex figure of Sam Houston. The defeat is celebrated because the example of heroic sacrifice is for some reason more powerful. There is a monument at Thermopylae which to paraphrase its actual content says 'O Stranger passing by, Tell Sparta that obedient to her laws here we lie'. The monument at Plataea is just a melted down column made of Persian weapons. It is more entertaining and grand a subject to speak of a battle involving the Persian King himself in a small mountain pass against an outnumbered Greek force than it is to discuss a battle involving more equal numbers being led by Mardonius, a mere general. Romans talked more about Cannae than Zama; more about Teutoberg Wald than Germanicus recovering the standards. Single events like battles, especially ones that involve last stands, are easier to focus on. So in that vein, the Alamo is an oversimplified example of the Texas revolution which lends itself to myth-making due to the self-sacrifice of the defenders involved. San Jacinto was a battle which was chosen by Houston after he had followed a Fabian strategy. Historians generally do not pay attention to battles fought in this manner, not even those of Fabius himself. Historians all wish they were poets; and they speak most eloquently about that which lends itself to myth and couplets more so than prose.

The myth will change with the racial composition of Texas. It will never be an inversion of the White supremacy inherent in its older forms , but it will change to focus on a state rebelling against a tyrannical central government, especially with the emerging crises of the next decade appearing to be controversies over federalism on such issues as Obamacare, Gay Rights, the 2^nd Amendment, Marijuana legalization and such.

A Conversation With My Gender

There was a Clitoris Memo sent out awhile back. Read it.

Cunnilingus- this is a must. If she tastes bad, wash it down with a good drink, or date a woman with a better diet.

Passively watching sports is not manly. Working out to look like the guy in Men's Health is the male equivalent of chicks wanting to look like broads in Sports Illustrated. Get a good workout or participate in some sort of martial arts, especially if you follow individual combat sports. But if you are sitting on your ass watching football which is only grown men in tights playing with balls- we are waiting for you and Tom Cruise to come out of the closet.

Strippers are overrated. If you don't believe me, wait until you get crabs in your eye from an all nude club or take one of these ladies home and get a nice surprise when your hand soap smells like badly aged vag vinegar.

If you missed out on the genetic lottery and don't have enough equipment- well we can't all win.

If you are running around talking about the game, you aren't a player. The ones with the most game are those who claim they are not in the game at all. Then again, you might want to think about romance, which is the core of every person's existence whether they are male or female or something in-between(whether they admit it or not), as a subject you ought not to refer to as a game. After all we all matured past that high school bullshit. Right?

Addendum:

Apparently there are a bunch of people angry about some Coke Commercial saying it is un-'Murican. Right, because companies totally care about countries, and are otherwise patriotic and have never done things like finance the Nazis, built up the Soviet Union, or economically devastated domestic industry. And I'm sure the reason your fatass should stop drinking cokes is that the commercial pissed you off. You can always trust beverages that got their name during the patent medicine era from having cocaine in them. Truth is, carbonated drinks are totally unnecessary for humans to consume.

The Agenda

Sketches of the Way Forward

All of the prisons need to be emptied; in the former prisoner's place we can put the K Street lobbyists who have destroyed the country, the intelligence officers who have cooperated with Al Qaeda since the 80s, the officials responsible for condoning drug smuggling into the U.S., the various corrupt black shirted police officers, members of congress and the Senate currently guilty of treason against the Constitution and the largest organized criminal organization in history known as Internal Revenue.

The military needs to be out of Korea, Germany, Afghanistan, Japan- as a start. These countries either do not need our protection as there are economically stronger than we, or they do not want us there.

Our doctrine to prevent nuclear terrorism should be thus: if you provide or harbor groups that use these weapons against the American homeland, we will retaliate in kind. But we will henceforth not engage in the nation building that we have since September 11^th.

If healthcare is an issue which should be dealt with by the government, the law should not be written by the insurance companies. Something as simple as expanding medicare would suffice. But this as already constituted will bankrupt the US

Get rid of the Fed, establish sound money and stop borrowing.

Since the federal authorities have failed to secure the border, this should be done by local militias raised from these counties under the constitutional mandate in the 2^nd Amendment. The National Security Act of 1947 was a crime against the constitution.

Federal funds for college should stop immediately with debt forgiveness. Federal involvement in education should end,

Foreign aid should end now. In all its forms.

1^st Amendment ends all laws passed against free speech

the 2^nd amendment renders all gun control simply unconstitutional

the 4^th Amendment means the patriot act, NDAA and similar fascist legislation null

The 9^th Amendment alone ends drug prohibition.

We need to establish a panel of experts to bring jobs back to the country. Politicians cannot solve this problem, but they can certainly ask business to do so for them.

Corporate Personhood is insane

The national guard should be devolved to the states.

People should be able to opt out of social security or medicare/medicaid.

The Nanny State is a bad idea. The Police State is a worse one.

Millennials vs. Those That Have Come Before Us

Reflecting on the scorn heaped on the generation of which I am a part, I have the following opinion: that the millennials have been handed a practically destroyed country which long ago parted from its founding principles and is the economic sick man in a rapidly developing Multipolar world. The attitude of previous generations is like handing us a burned down house and then calling us a bum because we have no roof over our heads.

The first major mistake of previous generations was the Cold War.

There was conscious decision to pursue the strategy of containment against our former soviet ally after the Second World War. This may have been wise, considering a joint American, British and Japanese invasion of Russia after the First World War accomplished nothing except to prove that the Soviets were no aggressors in the situation. This had a few consequences: it meant that America was committed to police actions, the first of which was to take place in Korea. This was was pursued in a limited fashion. At a time when America could have used its nuclear weapons against both Russia and China with little retaliation, this was not done. The Baby Boomers betrayed the soldiers twice: once in Korea and again in Vietnam. You elected draft-dodgers but never a Vietnam vet. The ruling class of the Boomers/Generation X made sure it was nowhere near the bush. Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex in a farewell address the likes of which had not been heard since the time of Washington. This was not heeded. The CIA, long-derided as out of control even by its creator, now had a national security state to uphold, and could classify information as such in clear violation of the Constitution. The New Deal was never turned back, and expanded during the great society. Thus, if any Millennials are on welfare, we have you to thank for the crazy system currently operating.

Your diet was/is insane. Any generation that acts surprised when cigarettes turn out to be bad for you are fools indeed.

You still pay taxes to the criminal IRS.

You began the national obsession with TV. The Millennial obsession with media is just an outgrowth of this. Thus if you decry computers, tablets, smartphones, video games, first think of how many hours of your life were wasted in front of a mind control box.

Stupidity is not a market that Millennials have cornered. The decline in compulsory education began with Baby Boomers and have simply continued. You generation did not push to the final frontier.

You are bunch of drug addicts. Pill popping became common, and drugs were scheduled based on their use by groups not towing the state line. Drugs: just because you couldn't handle your mescaline or acid doesn't mean someone else can't with a stronger mind. Just because you smoked dope and laid around doing nothing does not mean that everyone who used cannabis does it as well.

Prisons became a big business, and the multiplication of offenses that will end in incarceration is legion. This reflect the 'law and order' obsession of the boomers and their Gen X children. You also fear violence so much that you were willing to give away your implements for defending yourself against it via gun control.

As for money, and in this I mean the general lack of savings, home-ownership or independence in my generation: there are no jobs left. You made sure they were all shipped overseas, which will benefit your stock plan but not the worker trying to make a living wage. If you think I'm wrong on this- quit your job, move out of your house, attempt to rent with a small income and obtain a decent job with an empty or limited resume. I dare you.

Israel, once capable of battlefield victories only seen in the Panzer forces that were looked at in awe by the incompetent football fan general officers in the US, was locked into a relationship with the United States after the Yom Kippur war. Kissinger is still walking around, somehow not in jail. Thanks. The last President with any balls was Nixon, but he was a crazy asshole. While on the subject of Presidents, thanks for helping cover up the Kennedy Assassination. And King. Thanks for killing the American Prophets.

Government official stories: Violating the Laws of Physics, 11/22/63-9/11/2001.

Then came the 80s, were if you were not on coke you were getting religion to wash away the sins of your youthful years where you confused altered states of consciousness with conscious revolution. Again, thank you.

Thanks for aids too.

Reagan, while admitting guilty in Iran Contra, never atoned for these actions.

Another thing: Ronald Reagan is not the messiah. It is telling that the only half-decent President you helped elect was an actor outright.

The prevailing political climate is that of a choice between equally socialistic bankrupt political parties. The only modern political party which represents the principles of minarchy clearly laid out in the constitution is the libertarian party, and regarded as extremist by the media you lapped up and supported. Don't tell me Faux News is fair and balanced. Don't even try to tell me MSNBC is the answer either: I hope it keeps 'Leaning Forward' until it falls on its face. Most of you probably have no clue who Edward Bernays is. I would tell you to google it, but that would require you using the address bar to navigate to a search engine. This is like rocket science to you people. Also, the next time a member of your generation says 'its all greek to me' I am going to respond with 'Kione or Attic'? Prior to the regimented school system you supported, funded; regard as holier than those Ten Commandment of the bronze age you demand be posted in front of our court system buildings which has more in common with ancient Germanic customs than anything in Leviticus, Greek and Latin were well known by educated people. I digress.

It is not that the millennial generation is alone socialistic- it is that the intellectual groundwork for such socialistic beliefs was laid by the Baby Boomers, whose parents accepted the criminal Roosevelt government which illegally seized gold and dragged the country into the Second World War in 'defense of democracy' at the side of the largest mass-murderer in history until the Rise of Mao in China and fought to 'save the Jewish people' while turning away Jewish Emigration attempts from Nazi Germany when it would have saved many lives, and entire branches of families that perished in the gas chambers.

The purchasing power of the dollar has fallen continuously under the stewardship of the shallow end of our gene pools known as previous generations, and now the millennials face a national debt headed to Greek proportions. It will be great when we pull your Social Security benefits.

Your homoerotic sports are another matter entirely. Content to watch grown men in tights play with balls and tackle one another, you began the decline in American manhood which has simply accelerated. At least many Millennials undergo martial arts training, making them more than passive spectators.

Worse is the fact that your generation actually trusted the government. This makes yours a generation of dupes and idiots.

Now to speak of economics. This is a complicated subject, economists have made sure of that. But for every time I hear a boomer talk about this generation's problem of feeling entitled, I can't help but laugh. Your generation is the last that will ever see cradle to grave private sector jobs. Your generation had a cult of the job. It worshiped the idea of working for someone else and collecting a check. No wonder corporations moved overseas- you felt entitled to vacation and benefits which are a fantasy. You also worshiped college. Instead of telling your kids to take time off, or figure things out, you shipped them over to universities to serve as adult day care. Our infrastructure is destroyed in this country. While America labors forward with rusted bridges, Japan and Germany build maglev lines

The record of those that came before the Millennials is clear: You took the most powerful country in the world, and saw it defeated in two major land wars in Asia. You opened China and armed them. You voted for draft-dodgers, both two term presidents. You 'cured' Vietnam syndrome by again stomping on Latin America. You saw the greatest industrial power of all time gutted by 'free trade' policies, and set in motion globalization. You took the dollar and destroyed it. Your generation took the largest creditor nation and turned it into a debtor. You 'ended racism' by passing civil rights laws and replacing Jim Crow with prisons. You took the vice of cowardice and made it a virtue- everywhere men started depending on black uniformed police and stopped taking care of themselves.

So tell me again how the Millennials are the dumbest generation.

These problems my generation has been handed by you- while you sit on retirement and fiddle, Rome is burning. Each of these problems have been enough to kill many empires. It will be the accomplishment of my generation to happily lose the empire but be lucky enough to keep the Republic.