10. Divorcing George’s Blog
16th April 2006
Posting 10. to General (no specific category), Divorcing George’s Blog: My Rant, by Nancy Davies
2006-04-16
Nancy Davies Divorcing George’s Blog: My Rant
I am divorcing George’s blog because the USA is preparing to bomb Iran.
The US bombed Iraq to prevent Iraq from converting from dollars to euros, for its petroleum market. Iran has decided to convert its bourse to euros. Where will that leave the United States and incidentally (yes! incidentally!) Israel? Up Shit Crick without a paddle.
If you recall your Old Testament stories, Sampson, blind and in a fury, pulled down around his ears the building (the economy, the politics, the peoples) where he was a prisoner. So it is with the neo-liberal US presidency. I don’t suppose for one moment that Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld (Rumsfeld’s replacement if he’s forced to step down), will do less than go down with a crash, especially since the US is in a lose-lose situation. The dollar, the global exchange currency, is already worth nothing more than the pretty engravings of past presidents, so why not go for broke? Even Great Britain and Blair-The-Poodle suspect the endeavor to control the sale of petroleum, the Middle East, and Muslim peoples is a no-go, and Britain will declare for the euro.
As for Israel, its lobby can whistle up a dog right now, but when the shit hits the fan, Israel will not be saved. Nor, in my (personal anti-Semitic Jew-hating – wait did I forget any invective?) opinion, does it deserve saving, although I hope its million or so “innocent” Jewish citizens find refuge. But Israel has learned nothing in the past half century; it is like the abused child who grows up to become an abuser. Nor has it cottoned on to the idea of sharing. When it comes to the diverse paradigms of sharing or excluding, competition or cooperation, negotiation or murdering, Israel has chosen wrongly and so has no claim to my sympathies, which adhere strictly to the cooperation paradigm.
Nor, I wager, will the neo-cons give much true sympathy. The Jewish homeland is in the same category as “Democracy”. Good talking. As soon as it becomes apparent that the US cannot forever maintain economic and military global domination, the friendship with Israel (i.e., Israel’s employment to do dirty work for the hand-out it gets from the US, while permitting the US to continue its noble pretenses) will be cast off like peanut shells. Too bad.
So all the Jewish Israel lobbying in the world will come to about the same as the Indian Casino lobby. Israel is expensive. Israel has no claims on the never-ending largesse of the USA once it cannot serve as a military base in the geopolitical game. When Israel seeks dollars that don’t exist, maybe it can get euros. Or yuan. Or whatever.
In reading George’s blog I commend Adam Sacks for being a compassionate human being. I commend Jeffrey Blankfort for his long years of unappreciated research which I believe is accurate. I commend Noam Chomsky’s scholarship on which I was raised. I believe Karen Spence is an intelligent woman. I praise everyone who is contributing to a better understanding of history. But it’s John Ross and Joe Bageant I vote for. Get this shit off my face; it’s past time to take off academic blinders and look at the bigger reality of what we are, and what we are about to face. The US has brought itself to economic ruin through excessive greed and power. Moral ruin. Political ruin, especially as once upon a time we claimed to be the oldest continuous constitutional democracy in the world. Global isolation. Etcetera. I’m with the people.
And lest anyone not notice, more goes on in the world than corruption in the USA, and the pig policies of its immoral Congress and lobbies. We see the emergence of another paradigm, based on communal local actions and the needs of the poor, spreading globally in populist movements. I don’t imagine that the USA would not ruthlessly destroy Chavez in Venezuela, or another socialist president in Haiti, or whomever the neo-cons don’t care for — I hold my breath for the safety of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico. Nevertheless the struggle expands, it is not shrinking. While the USA has decided to take its stand for power with the dollar as global currency, behind its back people rally to non-dollar allegiances and new allies and new blocks of mutual aid.
One can only hope that the USA stands down. The US could accept, albeit sadly, that the US will be a second-rate power, as Great Britain had to swallow after losing the empire on which the sun never set. As did Portugal, Spain, Germany, Greece, the Maya and the Aztecs. Sunset, alas, comes for us all.
Britain came down with a relatively soft landing, and that’s the very best and blessed situation we could face.
The worst, of course, is undoubtedly more likely.