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COLTURA DI S DELL'AMERICA' DELLA GUERRA NON UN'EDIZIONE QUESTA ELEZIONE
Martedì 8 luglio 2008
Da Sherwood Ross | Un'edizione che la gente americana probabilmente non sta andando sentirsi circa in questa campagna presidenziale è come arrestare il complesso militare-industriale (MIC) dal distruggere questo paese, dal bankrupting morale e finanziariamente. Nessuna materia che ogni giorno passante porta una certa nuova rivelazione di cattiva gestione e dello spreco lordi di pentagono, della violazione di trattato o dei crimini contro umanità, è un soggetto nessun candidato affinchè le sfide della Casa Bianca faccia allo spiedo affinchè non lui o lei è ritenuta? Na? ve? o? morbido? a proposito di difesa. Tuttavia, il MIC sta facendo funzionare questa nazione in terra, succhiante i trilioni dei dollari dai contribuenti? raccoglitori e spreco porre ai settori civili nel bisogno urgente della riparazione e della rigenerazione. Il MIC è una bestia senza un cuore, senza pietà. Intraprenderà la guerra dovunque nel mondo, con tutta la bugia o pretesto, trasmettendo le migliaia o milioni alle loro morti. È privo della moralità; non ha imparato niente dagli insegnamenti religiosi tranne labbro-servizio; ed i relativi impiegati civili vanno ai loro lavori che producono le armi nucleari e gli elementi portanti di velivolo come se stessero piantando i meleti o stessero alzando i fiori. Quando il pentagono era in costruzione, i membri dell'armadietto del Roosevelt hanno messo in discussione la saggezza di riunire sotto un tetto che gli uffici militari numerosi hanno sparso intorno a Washington, DC Hanno temuto il consolidamento imminente delle alimentazioni martial impressionanti in una delle strutture più grandi su terra; si sono preoccupati, anche, che la macchina di guerra potrebbe intraprendere una durata dei relativi propri. Tragicamente, i loro timori sono stati trasformati nel corso degli anni nell'odierna realtà ugly. Come James Carroll scrive dentro? Camera della guerra? (Houghton Mifflin), da 1965 quasi 6 milione Americani è stato impiegato in Pentagono-fa funzionare le imprese. Dopo tutto, durante i 20 anni che seguono la seconda guerra mondiale? il pentagono ha speso quasi $100 miliardo, dieci volte i dispendii federali dedicati a tutte le funzioni di salute, la formazione ed il benessere nello stesso periodo.? Da 1997, dal padre l'attivista pacifista del Philip Berrigan, umanitario e, potrebbe dire al giudice che presto lo sentenzierebbe a due anni in prigione per rovesciare l'anima sugli Stati Uniti nave da guerra: ? Gli Stati Uniti hanno speso quattordici trilione dollari sulle armi dal 1946. 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! Have Your Say: AMERICA’S CULTURE OF WAR NOT AN ISSUE THIS ELECTION Please read our posting guidelines before posting. 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