Yesterday, in addressing a few words to Democratic Voters in the USA, I was careful to express doubts about the virtues of the candidate whom they appear to have chosen. The said candidate has now made declarations to the AIPAC which follow slavishly in the footsteps of the Clinton clan (identical to those of the Bush régime) in support of the brutal ethnic cleansing which afflicts the Holy Land.
In the USA, it is customary to describe all the area which we Europeans call the Near and Middle East using the shorter form of "Middle East". From that side of the Atlantic, we are all the "East", and it is reasonable for us to accustom ourselves to the point of view of those who live so far away to the west of us, and in the words which follow I shall stay with the shorter form.
Yesterday's declarations before the AIPAC reveal a sick nation, where the first important move by any candidate for the top office has to seek the approval of a lobby group whose openly expressed aim is to promote brutality elsewhere. One cannot describe AIPAC in any other way than as a lobby for the current successors to the Nazis with their crude (racist) discrimination against those who cannot claim to belong to their "Master Race". Ever since the end of the Second World War I have remained a steadfast believer in the slogan "Never Again" to be applied WITHOUT EXCEPTION to all forms of racist persecution, oppression and mass murder, as exemplified by the Nazi régime.
The latest news also informs us that there is agreement in the USA between the Republicans and the Democrats to stay in Iraq for ever and a day, with a new Treaty being drawn up to be imposed on the present Iraqi puppet government to reproduce the ghastly provisions forced on Iraq by the British government in the 1930's. In other words, imperial rule is to be reimposed, this time to keep Iraq within the fold of Mr Bush's "moderate" Arab states willing to support his ridiculous "War on Terra". Voters in the USA are thus left without a choice on some of the most important problems in the world, while their supposed "leaders" continue to propagate the preposterous lie that the USA are currently the only super-power on our planet.
It is a lasting cause of sadness that so many voters in the USA have no genuine experience of the outside world, and maintain the illusion that the USA can go their own way without troubling themselves about the vast majority of the global population. The constant use of the word "America" to refer to the USA alone shows a degree of ingorance of even the extent of the American continent, which stretches from the arctic wastes of Canada to Tierra del Fuego, and of its peoples, many of whom do not approve of any hegemonic ambitions emanating from the USA.
James Monroe, the fifth president of the USA, tried in 1823 to exclude all outside interference in the Americas. We must assume that he probably did not realise how far his successors would go in wishing to impose their rule and/or interference on the most distant parts of the world, to an extent which our ancestors in the nineteenth century could not easily have imagined.
Past empires have often, if not always, grown up to meet economic aims, and the present imperialistic moves by the rulers of the USA and their Zionist "allies" seem almost entirely linked to petroleum reserves, and a desire to exercise a strategic control over not only all potential suppliers but also all possible customers. This has led these same imperialists to endeavour to follow the system decribed by Eric Arthur Blair (aka George Orwell) in his famous book, "1984", by taking control of our minds and ways of life without our realising what is going on, and giving words meanings opposite to those hitherto universally accepted.
Many of the ill-informed and misinformed in the USA who believe the propaganda put out by their rulers have accepted the arrogant claim that these same rulers represent concepts such as "freedom", "democracy" and (more generally) everything which is "good". What such believers have to swallow is that the rest of us do not accept these obviously false claims, and we prefer to keep our carefully (and slowly) developed forms of democracy and ways of life. Furthermore, we have seen through the smoke-screen put up by these rulers of the USA and resent being treated as idiots when we act to retain some semblance of genuine freedom and democracy.
We in Europe live next door to the Middle East, and it affects our daily life, which makes us suspicious of every move by the rulers of the USA to impose their interests in lands so close to us. I have to stress that it is certain that their interests are not in any way aimed at ensuring and/or protecting the genuine interests of their subjects. The only purpose of these subjects is to serve as workers, as cheaply as possible, voting fodder in rigged elections (from which the ordinary subject is totally excluded) and cannon-fodder in the wars which help to keep the rulers in power.
The invasion and occupation of Iraq have done nothing to advantage the people of the USA, but have merely encouraged resistance by ordinary people (described by Mr Bush and his gang as "Terrorists") in Iraq and elsewhere who have no desire to submit to hostile foreign rule. If the USA were genuinely to change its "MIddle East Policy", many of the problems to which it has given birth would vanish, but this would, as in all worth-while human endeavours, take time.
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