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火曜日、2008年7月8日

Sherwoodロス著 | アメリカの人々が多分この大統領キャンペーンで約聞こうとはしていない1つの問題はそれを道徳的そして財政上破産させることからのこの国の、破壊から軍産複合体を(MIC)停止する方法をである。

人間性に対して日ごとに条約の違反または罪の米国国防総省の総体の不始末そして無駄の新しい暴露を、持って来る問題、それは彼または彼女が「naïve」または防衛に関して「柔らかい」考えられるトピック口を空けるべきホワイトハウスの挑戦のための候補者ではない。

しかし、MICは地面にこの国家を動かし、ドルの兆を」修理および再生の急務の一般市民のセクターへの札入れそして置く無駄納税者のから吸う。

MICは同情なしに中心なしに獣、である。 それは戦争を世界中どこでも、うそまたは口実で行い、たくさんか何百万を死に送る。 それは道徳に欠けている; それは唇サービスを除く宗教教授からの何も学ばなかった; そして一般市民の従業員は核兵器および航空母艦を製造する彼らの仕事にリンゴ園を植えるか、または花を上げていたように行く。

米国国防総省が建設中だったときに、ルーズベルトのキャビネットのメンバーは多数の軍のオフィスがワシントンD.C.のまわりで分散した1つの屋根以下、の知恵にひとつにまとめること質問した 彼らは地球上で最も大きい構造の1つに驚くばかりの軍力の切迫した強化を恐れていた; 彼らは兵器が独特な価値をもつようになるにはかもしれたこと、余りに心配した。 悲劇的に、恐れは今日の醜い現実に長年かけて変形した。

ジェームスCarrollが「戦争の家に」 (Houghton Mifflin)書くように1965年はほぼ6百万人のアメリカ人によってで米国国防総省動かす企業を用いられた。 結局、第二次世界大戦に続く20年に「米国国防総省使った健康のすべての面に、同じ期間の教育捧げられた中央政府支出をほぼ$100の十億の、10倍および福祉を」。は

1997型の、父フィリップのBerrigan、人道主義によっておよび反戦の行動主義者は、米国の血をこぼすための刑務所の2年にやがて彼に刑を宣告する裁判官を言うことができる。 軍艦: 「米国は1946年以来の腕に14の兆ドルを使った。 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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