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Not the war on Iraqis. Not the war on Afghanis. Not the war on Palestinians. Not the "war on terrorism." They don't want a cure, cuz there is so much money to be made from the disease.
And the billions and billions of our taxpayer dollars that the US political establishment pours into armaments everywhere just helps keep democratic political forces from ever gaining the power to DO something about all these wars--and is used to literally kill union leaders, small farmers, political leftists and other true representatives of the people, while insuring the continuance of big drug cartels, big trafficking and all of its attendant violence and destruction, as well as continued arms proliferation and violent conflict.
U.S. policy has become the exact REVERSE of what it should be, in every sphere. Where there is true democracy, say in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, the U.S. condemns it and demonizes an elected president (Venezuela) and does everything it can to undermine the empowerment of the poor majority (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and everywhere else in Latin America). Where monarchs and despots rule, the U.S. can't support them enough (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE). Where the rightwing government colludes with paramilitary death squads, the U.S. pours in more military aid, endorsing, and no doubt actively aiding, the crimes of the government (Colombia). Governments with the worst human rights records, such as China, so long as they're into "free trade" (global corporate predation), they're treated as "favored nations," and even when the human rights abuses are gruesome (Uzbekistan), they are richly rewarded. Cuz, you know what? WE are the torturers now. WE are the despots. WE are the aggressors.
At home, the rule of the REVERSE of good policy reigns as well. Is it good policy to accept immediate aid from around the world, and immediately mobilize the country's resources to save the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast when they are hit by a disastrous hurricane? The U.S., under the Bush Junta, does the opposite. Is it good policy to curtail the off-shoring of jobs and manufacturing and even services to other countries, and to punish, fine, and severely tax corporations that engage in these and other ruinous policies? The U.S. does the opposite. Is it good policy to count all the votes in a way that everyone can see and understand? The U.S. does the opposite. Is it good policy to shorten the divide between rich and poor, promote a strong middle class, and provide upward mobility for the poor? The U.S. does the opposite--and goes even further than doing the opposite on all of these and other policy questions. It does WORSE than the opposite. It leaves the poor blacks of New Orleans to starve and rot and die in the wake of a hurricane. It turns away offered aid. It soaks the poor to give the rich more tax breaks. It REWARDS off-shoring. It sucks whole segments of the population into the brutal "prison-industrial" complex UNNECESSARILY, with a host of extremely punitive vice laws. It gives whole segments of the youthful population no choice but military or law enforcement jobs--or crime. It lionizes and rewards fatcat CEOs and corporate predators who prey on the old and the sick. It rewards idleness and cruelty, and punishes hard work and loyal, productive workers.
So it shouldn't surprise us that the Bush Junta (and collusive Democrats) are doing the wrong thing in South America. They're doing the wrong thing in Iraq. They're doing the wrong thing here at home. They're doing the wrong thing EVERYWHERE.
It's not as if previous U.S. policies have not been wrong, many times, in the past. But I have never seen the convergence of wrongness that I see now, not in my lifetime, and there is really not an era in our history in which the U.S. has been dead wrong on every issue. And not just wrong from a leftist (majorityist) perspective--wrong from a perspective of common sense, wrong from the perspective of U.S. national security, wrong from the perspective of U.S. foreign policy, wrong from the perspective of every national interest including business and trade, wrong from the perspective of the rich, who have to live in barricaded fortresses in the midst of an extremely unjust and discontented society--wrong from the perspective of the U.S. military which has been hijacked for a corporate resource war--wrong from every conceivable perspective.
Billions of our taxpayer dollars supporting the cocaine trade.
Upside down, backwards, "Alice in Wonderland," BushWorld wrong!
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