4um: Reality Overthrows “History’s Actors”

Title: Reality Overthrows “History’s Actors”
Source: vdare
URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/roberts/081026_actors.htm
Published: Oct 26, 2008
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2008-11-02 01:59:06 by Dakmar
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Views: 193
Comments: 11

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Bush White House aide explaining the "New Reality"

The New American Century lasted a decade. Financial crisis and defeated objectives in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Georgia brought the

neoconservative project for American world hegemony crashing to a close in the autumn of 2008.

The American neoconservatives are the heirs of Leon Trotsky. Their dream of American “Full Spectrum Dominance”—US military and economic superiority over any possible combination of states —is matched in ambition only by the early 20th century Trotskyite dream of world Communist revolution.

The neocons used

September 11, 2001, as a “new Pearl Harbor” to give power precedence over law domestically and internationally. The executive branch no longer had to obey federal statutes, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or honor international treaties, such as the Geneva Conventions. An asserted “terrorist threat” to national security became the cloak which hid US imperial interests as the Bush Regime set about dismantling US civil liberties and the existing order of international law constructed by previous governments during the post-war era.

Perhaps the neoconservative project for world hegemony would have lasted a bit longer had the neocons possessed intellectual competence.

On the war front, the incompetent neocons predicted that the

Iraq war would be a six-week cakewalk, whose $70 billion cost would be paid out of Iraqi oil revenues. President Bush fired White House economist Larry Lindsey for estimating that the war would cost $200 billion. The current estimate by experts is that the Iraq war has cost American taxpayers between two and three trillion dollars. And the six-week war is now the six-year war.

On the economic front, the incompetent neocons overlooked the fact that a country that relocates its industry and best jobs abroad in order to maximize short-run profits becomes progressively economically weaker. Propagandistic talk about a “New Economy” built around financial dominance covered up the fact that the US was the world’s greatest debtor country, dependent on foreigners to finance the daily operation of its government, the home mortgages of its citizens, and its military operations abroad.

In Iraq,, the neocons gave up their hegemonic military pretensions when they put 80,000 Sunni insurgents on the US Army’s payroll in order to scale down the fighting and reduce US casualties.

In Afghanistan the neocons gave up more military pretensions when they had to rely on NATO troops to fight the Taliban.

US military pretensions came to an end in Georgia when the Bush Regime sent Georgian troops to ethnically cleanse South Ossetia of Russian residents in order to end the secessionist movement in the province, thereby clearing the path for Georgia’s NATO membership. It took Russian soldiers only a few hours to destroy the US and Israeli-trained and equipped Georgian Army.

The ongoing financial crisis has put an end to the pretensions of American financial hegemony and free-market illusions that deregulation and offshoring had brought prosperity to America.

In a long article, “The End of Arrogance,” on September 30, the German news magazine Der Spiegel observed:

"This is no longer the muscular and arrogant United States the world knows, the superpower that sets the rules for everyone else and that considers its way of thinking and doing business to be the only road to success…

Also on display is the end of arrogance. The Americans are now paying the price for their pride.

Gone are the days when the US could go into debt with abandon, without considering who would end up footing the bill. And gone are the days when it could impose its economic rules of engagement on the rest of the world, rules that emphasized profit above all else—without ever considering that such returns cannot be achieved by doing business in a respectable way…

A new chapter in economic history has begun, one in which the United States will no longer play its former dominant role. A process of redistributing money and power around the world—away from America and toward the resource-rich countries and rising industrialized nations in Asia—has been underway for years. The financial crisis will only accelerate the process. "

Looking at his defeated adversary, George W. Bush, brought down by military and economic failure, Iranian President Ahmadinejad observed: “The American empire in the world is reaching the end of its road, and its next rulers must limit their interference to their own borders.”

Truer words were never spoken.

I wouldn't trust this no good, two faced Council for National Policy liar for a second. Please don't ever think that Wm. Kristol, Richard Perle, or Paul Wolfowicz have decided against bribing and blackmailing the thieves you elect, don't think that Chertoff or Mukasey are tired of prosecuting innocent Americans while assisting spies and agent provocateurs in the furtherance of destroying our country. Mr. Paul Craig Roberts is a right gate-keeper.

When he had a chance to make necessary changes in American economics or at least speak to the corruption at the fed reserve .. he said nothing ! The fed reserve has been a fucking trojan horse since 1913 and those that have profited from it or used it to further their careers are traitors. This asshole is one of "THEM".

It's past time for Americans to revert to their independent attitude of 1776 and write these sorry SOBs off to the waste bin of history. Stand the fuck up, and fight these sons of bitches.

This is your country, as much as anyone elses, maybe moreso. None of these neo- cunts served a day in the combat zones they created.

Hey there, all of you veterans that have donated 2,3, or 4 of the best years of your life to these life stealing neo-cock-roaches ... stand the fuck up, spit in their traitorous faces, and at a minimum resist their every demand. Fuck them, they have been stealing your life from you, making murderous decisions for you, sending your kids into danger for their own profit, and all you have to show for it is a one way ticket to hell for assisting the merchants of death in their perpetual destruction of everything good. You can't even buy a candy bar without being surveiled, photographed and logged into the prison-planet digital human rsources file. Better be good, BIG BRO is all the way up your ass.

Who ever said that your lot in life was to be born a serf, dedicated to the furtherance of a multi-cultural feudal system re-packaged to fool the slaves into thinking they chose it. What a sick joke. Does anyone think it's their decision to drop 2000 pound bombs on kids in distant lands ? Then why the fuck are you buying the bombs for the Queens and Kings of death ?

Today, we're hours away from electing a full-fledged, thoroughbred communist to the Presidency of the United States ... not a shot fired ... un-fucking- believeable - shameful, disgusting. What's worse is that the fascist son of bitch on the other side (of the dictatorial coin) is just as much a murdering motherfucker ...

All across this "blessed" land good people are being used and abused by an evil- archy, an elitist caste of shit eating parasites, to further an agenda of international murder, human sacrifice, and that are intent upon establishing a global plantation.

I can't quote one line from your post that is better than another. This is the post of the month. Bravo.

"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." Â© IndieTx

I know exactly how you feel. I jave been trying to ruffle feathers on the wings of our one bird of prey called pubbiecrat/demonwit. You have an uphill battle that will try your mettle and boggle your mind. You can read the words of many on here that profess to be patriots and who claim they are sick and tired of the two party system, shilling away for obanger and or mcnutz.

I've tried to engage them by pointing out how far they have retreated from their"positions" back when Ron Paul first announced his running. Many of them never really had a grip on their convictions. The pubbie/ demonwit is beginning to show on this forum.

Some claim they outright hate obanger, while others denounce mcnutz, but nearly all of them are still going to vote for one or the other. They are caught up in the 'lesser of two evils syndrome'. Simply put, they are in the bag. Name after name, lodwick, scrapper2, and the whacko flintlock, and I could go on and on. They are engaged in dialog that fuels the fire that will give us more of the same.

When we have had it up to our eyeballs with whichever dictator they help vote in, none of them will admit they voted for and supported either one. They got experience too. Many voted for comrade bush and most now deny it. It is easy to sit behind a computer keyboard and type in anything you want and to put a slant on it that is mind boggling and gut wrenching, but to standfast in defense of your convictions is more than many on here can do or even realize how they have compromised their positions and principles.

I salute you for your comments and wished they would wake up enough on here that they would cease to be traitors to the cause of freedom and liberty. You are a real patriot.

Losing a country is not fun but not that bad if you have some where to run to I've lost two countries in my life so where does one go from here only two options...stand and fight or flee to the unknown.

I imagine you ended up here thinking this would be the last country you'd have to move to, but alas ... here we go again ... hey, maybe it s you !!!

Just kidding ... in as much as I'd like to think this mess could sort itself out ... an honest appraisal would indicate that we're in for a rough ride. I don't think there is anywhere to go.

Don't think that thought has not crossed my mind a time or two...I have lived in and or visited most western countries this is as good as it gets when all is said and done

By now everyone knows that in all likelihood Obama will be the president-elect in a few short days. I can't speak for anyone else but I for one will be glad to see him elected. Oh, not for some pie-in-the-sky racial equality, 'can we put that stuff behind us' rigamarole. Oh no, far from any of the New Age rationale of Obama coming to save us bullshit. Although Obama's election may very well be the straw that saves the camel from going over the cliff. Pick your metaphor because none of the old metaphors work and jumbling them together may be the right course these days. strawmansblog.blogspot.co...ama-great-white-hope.html

This time around I believe the "people" have been left with only the choice between "the greater of two evils" ... whichever one is selected will only become a greater evil.

"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lodwick