Don't follow leaders......watch your parking meters
Regime Change begins at Home
Isn’t it absurd that our President can advocate for the violent overthrow of someone else’s government as a cornerstone of the USA’s Foreign Policy. Why doesn’t he advocate for the dismantling of their religious beliefs as well? “We really like your country, if only you were monogamous, or monotheist or democratic! While your at it, change your underwear.”
You don’t have to like the US. It’s better if you don’t. The world does not revolve around liking the dominant economic system, just as it doesn’t revolve around admiring the Queen of England, or the Mullah with the gilt-edged book. Morality like politics is an argument. So is religion. The fundamental truth of argument depends on intellect. In this moment, our President can argue that Pakistan, ruled by a General holding a Nuclear Club is a strategic ally, and is therefor likeable, while Venezuela, ruled by a democratically elected President, not wielding a Nuke, can go to hell in a handbasket. Their President is a leftist, and their oil revenue will only profit the leftist social agenda. This is being advanced as intellect?
It seems that we could care less what happens in Venezuela or Argentina, countries that we profess to like, and with whom we share much in common. When faced with a small dictatorship halfway around the world that has a nuclear arsenal of two or three devices and untold oil wealth, and a country at our doorstep that is a democracy in economic meltdown, our President, taking the podium, advances the argument that we should roll the dice with Predator Aircraft armed with explosives to achieve a regime change. That is the moral thing to do. More than a few people might die in collateral damage, but pre-emptive war is just and moral. The argument is being advanced that it is a necessary evil to achieve a greater good. Good for who? SUV owners? Pre-emption may work in a Bridge game, but this game has consequences that are a bit more grave. Global ThermoNuclear War.
I get the sense that whoever it is in our government that is being paid to advance the political argument is either totally incompetent or is buying the other guy’s premise. I always labored under the assumption that the U.S. was a Media Nation. That was the Republic’s strong suit and that political arguments were won or lost in the interplay between independent media-tion. Who in the panoply of paid politicians dares to take the podium and argue that our warrior belligerence is bordering on the immoral, or the insane? We don’t want to be perceived as wimps now do we? As if standing up to the Super Boss of a Super Power takes no courage whatsoever.
I’m here to testify. My testimony is simple. If your words or your actions leads to death and destruction you are morally bankrupt. If your economic system requires war or the constant threat of war to maintain your superiority over the dominion of man, you are corrupt. If your reason for being is to dominate the other guy in a conquest or a zero-sum game, you have no soul. If you measure your happiness by treading on the hopes and dreams of another individual or the individuals of another nation, however governed, you are godless. No words, however eloquently spoken, can justify your actions.
I speak to you without fear, without a weapon, without flinching. Stop War. Seek Truth. Administer Justice. Those are the hallmarks of Moral Administration. If your administrators cannot produce, change YOUR regime.
Bob