AUGUST 2006
When Governments Fail
by Frank Scott
The destruction continues in Lebanon and Gaza with
enthusiastic support
from the American government, since everything is going
according to its
warped plan. What the regimes policy boneheads and
advertising branders
call a new middle east is what theyve created in
Iraq. A devastated
nation with thousands dead, division everywhere, and a
once secular
state reduced to sectarian groups whose only unity is
hatred for the USA
and Israel. This self-destructive policy may mean
eventual suicide for
the fundamentalist Judeo-Christian states, which would be
hopeful for
the Judeo-Christians who do not subscribe to the master
race -chosen
people ideologies that motivate so many of their number.
But such well
deserved doom, though it might be fine in the long term,
could mean
disaster in the short. These maniac cults have nuclear
weapons, and one
sect has a manic persecution complex that threatens to
leave a massive
crater where there once was a birthplace of civilization
.
Israel kills civilians and U.N. workers with impunity,
and then demands
apologies when it is criticized . Its murder of more than
ten times the
number of its own victims is seen as perfectly reasonable
by its
supporters. After all, whose lives are worth more? Such
international
chutzpah would not be tolerated without the total support
of the U.S.
government . While the president and his cabal are
forceful in their
idiocy, the senate and house are even more fanatic in
their long time
devotion to Israel, and especially the dollars they get
from its
American lobby.
Calling this congress a bunch of political whores, as
some have done, is
really a slur on street walkers and pimps who operate on
a much higher
moral level . That these tax payer financed
representatives can accept
further political payoffs on behalf of a foreign power is
simply a
particularly vile aspect of the American political scene.
But the
arrogance of such actions in support of Israels most
recent
sanctimonious devastation of innocents drives the moral
spiral to
bloodier depths than previously imagined.
Expecting the liberals among this gutless gang to affect
substantial
change from the regime of murderous flea brains who are
in control has
nothing to do with democracy. It amounts to praying for
miracles . Our
political power structure and its core of media
stenographers are united
in seeing the slaughter going on in Palestine and Lebanon
as the only
decent thing for Israel to do under the circumstances.
Recent mincing moves toward a cease fire are no more than
the usual: to
allow Israel to continue as dominator in the middle east,
while the
native savages bow in respectful silence, or die if they
dare resist. An
international farce at the U.N. quibbles over what form
of international
force should be employed, while people are dying and a
nation is
crumbling. This is typical behavior of the UN Security
Council, designed
to maintain the insecurity of a majority of the global
population. The
worlds people, if not the majority in the USA and
Israel, are beginning
to say: enough, already.
Americans are so misinformed that despite overwhelming
evidence to the
contrary, many believe Iraq actually possessed weapons of
mass
destruction, so it is relatively easy to get them to
swallow tales of a
suffering Israel, abused by the surrounding hordes who
demand social
justice and human rights. Such demands are seen as
extermination of the
Jewish race, a recurrent theme that plays on ancient
fears of biblical
origin that have no bearing on the present, if they were
ever true in
the past.
Our propagandists exercise so much control they could
probably convince
many Americans that Jesus and Moses had returned, were
gay and would
soon marry in Massachusetts, thereby threatening the
dysfunctional
family structure we depend on as showplace for our
commodity consumption .
The economic base that this church of consumption rests
upon has long
brought lavish wealth to many, while simultaneously
inflicting horrible
poverty on a far greater population than those who
benefit from the
commodification of life. The flow of private capital
unregulated by any
public entity is falsely identified as a democratizing
force called
globalization. Its known to its victims as
neoliberalism, and to
history as capitalism. But whether under the benign
direction of a
Warren Buffet or the less beneficial command of a Ken Lay
, the deviant
system that has individual humans controlling billions of
dollars while
billions of humans control none, is still accepted as the
proper
workings of a capitalist universe .
This economic disease is at the root of present creeds of
superiority,
whatever their historic or mythological origins. When
some are deemed
higher forms of human , they can rationalize deserving a
lucrative life
style while others live in squalid poverty. They can feel
superior, able
to take land, resources and most of all, human life, as
they see fit, in
pursuit of their own physical and psychological well
being. This is the
essence of the beast that stalks the Arabs of the middle
east, or the
Americans of the middle west, for that matter.
Can this monster be stopped before it roasts the earth in
its industrial
smog? Far more urgently, can it be stopped before it
makes the middle
east even bloodier by attacking Syria and Iran? The
General Assembly of
the U.N., composed of the great majority of
representatives, could
overrule its minority overseers of the Security Council
and assert a
real international community, and not the cosmetic entity
that shames
the world by standing in helpless silence while
atrocities are
committed. This may be that bodys last chance to act
as a democratic
voice for the world. If it fails, we may have to rely on
international
NGOs until such time as GOs express the wishes of their
people. If these
turn out to be more like Al Quaida and less like Hamas
and Hezbollah,
well have only ourselves to blame.
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Frank Scott writes political commentary which appears in
the Coastal
Post, a monthly publication from Marin County,
California, and on
numerous web sites . He is a native New Yorker who now
lives in the San
Francisco Bay area.