The Unending American War on The World
SYRIA JOINS THE TRAIL OF WARS IN THE UNENDING AMERICAN WAR ON THE WORLD unless we suddenly remember the Gulf of Tonkin, Allende's Commie-ness, Noriega's cocaine and porn, Saddam Hussien's nukes and labs. While the gas in Damascus could be a set-up to get the US into the war, and is being pushed by the corporate media; clearly we are entering the valley of war-fog that the Bushes and LBJ used to blind us. Always the same John Wayne playing the same Davy Crockett in the same Alamo against a dark-skinned race. This American moral superiority has bombed and gassed and burned more innocent families than Assad could ever dream of. The neo-liberal foreign policy of the certified 1%er John Kerry - is made possible by our anxiety about our own freedom. We are scared that we aren't living up to our own chauvinism. The Greatest Nation. The Superpower. We steady ourselves by bombing others, been doing this for years, bombing brown people in the distance. And then we forget completely. We must forget our violence or - how can we live with ourselves? We must forget or how can we do the exact same thing again? And lying about it all - lying to a disbelieving world - lying to set it up the violence. Like a mirror of the cowardly gas killers. We lie to everyone, yes, but also must lie to ourselves. That's how we pull the trigger. ~Reverend Billy
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That America never had the moral high ground and now everyone knows. This "Team America - World Police" mentality really is just a puppet show.
It's nothing more than another component of the great American lie being used by interests that have nothing to do with people and everything to do with power, money and dominance. The sooner Americans wake up to the need to drop all jingoism and its accompanying fictions (no matter how dear), the sooner we the people might see through the bullshit and begin the long road to a democracy with wisdom. (Not the same thing as majority rule.)
You seem like an honest type of person but you also seem a little naïve. This isn't meant as internet snark but...
To say:
We have freedom of speech, the rule of law. People who don't like this country should look at some others.
This tells me you either don't have the intellectual tools, or are unwilling at this late juncture to deconstruct what you see happening all around you in the year 2013.
All I can offer is this:
Allow yourself to doubt some of these ideas you seem to accept as true and self-evident. They may not be so. In fact, I can promise you they aren't. Get outside your faith, however you frame it.
This is a useful exercise.
Good luck.
