AMERIKA' S KULTUR DES KRIEGES NICHT EINE AUSGABE DIESE WAHL
Durch Sherwood Ross | Eine Ausgabe, welche die amerikanischen Leute wahrscheinlich nicht ungefähr in dieser Präsidentenkampagne hören werden, ist, wie man den militärisch-industriellen Komplex (MIC) vom Zerstören dieses Landes, von es moralisch und finanziell bankrupting stoppt.
Keine Angelegenheit, daß jeder überschreitene Tag irgendeine neue Enthüllung der grober Pentagon-Misswirtschaft und -vergeudung, der Vertragverletzung oder der Verbrechen gegen Menschlichkeit holt, ist es ein Thema kein Anwärter, damit Haustrauen behauen, aus Furcht daß er oder sie „naïve“ oder „weich“ bezüglich der Verteidigung gemeint werden.
Jedoch läßt das MIC diese Nation in den Boden laufen, saugt Trillionen der Dollar aus Steuerzahlern heraus' Mappen und legt Vergeudung zu den Zivilsektoren im dringenden Bedürfnis der Reparatur und der Regeneration.
Das MIC ist ein Tier ohne ein Herz, ohne Mitleid. Es unternimmt Krieg überall in der Welt, auf jeder möglicher Lüge oder Vorwand und schickt Tausenden oder Millionen zu ihren Todesfällen. Es ist vom Sittlichkeitsgefühl leer; es hat nichts vom frommen Unterricht ausgenommen Lippeservice erlernt; und seine Zivilangestellten gehen zu ihren Jobs, die Kernwaffen und Flugzeugträger, als wenn sie, herstellen Apfelobstgärten errichteten oder Blumen anhoben.
Als das Pentagon im Bau war, fragten Mitglieder des Roosevelt Schrankes die Klugheit des Zusammenbringens unter einem Dach, welches die zahlreichen militärischen Büros um Washington zerstreuten, DC Sie fürchteten die schwebende Verdichtung der ehrfürchtigen kriegerischen Energien in eine der größten Strukturen auf Masse; sie sorgten sich auch daß die Kriegmaschine auf einem Leben von seinen Selbst nehmen konnte. Tragisch ist ihre Furcht über den Jahren in heutige häßliche Wirklichkeit umgewandelt worden.
Wie James Carroll in „Haus des Krieges“ (Houghton Mifflin) schreibt, von wurden 1965 fast 6 Million Amerikanern in Pentagon-laufen lassen Unternehmen eingesetzt. Schließlich in den 20 Jahren dem Zweiten Weltkrieg folgend, „das Pentagon wendete fast $100 Milliarde, 10mal die Bundesaufwendungen auf, die allen Aspekten der Gesundheit gewidmet wurden, Ausbildung und Wohlfahrt in der gleichen Periode.“
Durch 1997, Vater Philip Berrigan, humanitäres und Antikriegskönnte aktivist, dem Richter erklären, der ihn kurz zu zwei Jahren im Gefängnis für das Verschütten des Bluts auf US verurteilen würde Kriegsschiff: „Die Vereinigten Staaten haben vierzehn Trillion Dollar für Arme seit 1946 ausgegeben. Our government has intervened in the affairs of fifty nations and has violated the laws of God and humanity by designing, deploying, using, and threatening to use atomic weapons.”
Carroll sees it in much the same light: “The Pentagon is now the dead center of an open-ended martial enterprise that no longer pretends to be defense…the Pentagon has, more than ever, become a place to fear.” “What the Bush administration has done,” Carroll writes, “is to lay bare the real character of the ‘disastrous rise’ of Pentagon power of which Eisenhower warned in 1961. In Iraq, despite America’s overwhelming military might, there will be no winning ever.”
Carroll’s words sound more prophetic each time another general testifies the Pentagon is “making progress” but the situation remains “fragile” and so we must stay on an on. Two years ago Carroll literally predicted Senator John McCain’s comment about staying in Iraq for a hundred years if need be, writing, “there will be no winning ever. Whether the U.S. occupation is terminated abruptly or is maintained for years, violence and mayhem will define Iraq indefinitely, while the rest of the Middle East copes with Iraqi-spawned waves of chaos.”
McCain says, if elected, he will be out of Iraq by 2013, but as Senator Joseph Biden pointed out in a recent talk carried on C-Span, McCain gave no specifics. And so one begins to suspect the goal in Iraq is not necessarily to win a war but to make war again and again, forever and a day, so the MIC can prosper while non-defense sectors starve, so that government contractors can erect a monster embassy in Baghdad and huge, permanent military bases nearby to dominate the oil-rich Middle East.
Carroll writes the U.S. under President Bush has “normalized” war: “Not noted by most Americans, a new archipelago of U.S. military bases stretched across the Middle East into the heart of the former Soviet Union…Such forward basing of forces was designed to control, by means of ‘regime change’ and ‘prevention,’ emerging political trends around the globe, with the unabashed goal of guaranteeing U.S. dominance everywhere.” (America operates about 1,000 military bases at home and more than 700 overseas.)
“Such a strategy,” Carroll goes on to write, “assumes not only the possession of unparalleled military power but the display of it and the ready use of it. Under George W. Bush, a self-styled war president, ‘the normalization of war’ was thus established.”
What’s more, Carroll writes, under former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon in 2002 embarked “on the stunning project of developing a new generation of nuclear weapons including a burrowing device designed to go after underground targets and ‘mini-nukes’ to be used in concert with a conventional attack.”
The effect of all this, Carroll writes, “is to legitimize nuclear-based power politics, giving other nations, friend and foe alike, compelling reasons to acquire a nuclear capacity, if only for deterrence, and prompting them to behave in similar ways.”
Carroll says the U.S. return to nuclear development was to spur Iran and North Korea to become nuclear-capable and to make states that renounced the atom—such as Brazil, Egypt, South Africa— rethink that decision. Meanwhile, Carroll says, Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan “are all furiously adding to their nuclear arsenals” and “The Pentagon has become the engine of proliferation.”
If the public hasn’t figured it out yet, the United States of America cannot go on this way forever, spending nearly half of every tax dollar on war. Besides the tragedy of our own 4,000 killed and 30,000 wounded in a deceitful war for oil, and the tragedy of perhaps 1 million Iraqis killed and a million more wounded, and four million forced from their homes, and their nation in ruins, the Bush regime has also turned much of the world against America and American brands. Soon, Americans workers and their families may be suffering economically as they never have since the Great Depression.
And the tyrannosaurus Rex in the family room smashing our domestic tranquility is the MIC. President Eisenhower had the guts to warn us of it. Senator McCain is a traveling salesman for it. And Senator Obama remains to be heard from. Yo, Senator Obama!
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