Wartime for All of Us in America

Wartime in America

There is a war in America. The war can only be won by destroying the enemy and capturing the long sought objective of the neo-liberal economists and neo-conservative foreign policy advocates.

The war on terror is a convenient red herring that has been be used successfully to distract the American public away from the real war and its goals. The various insurgents, terrorists, and their numerous attacks on American troops in foreign lands serve to cement the belief that our enemy is without not within the gates. Politicians quake at the mere thought of being branded by the opposition as being ‘soft on terror’ even as their fathers and grandfathers were fearful of being called ‘soft on communism’.

What then is the real war? What is the true objective? Who are the enemies?

The Real War

There is not a declared war. No declaration of war act as specified in the US Constitution has been passed by the Congress or signed by the President. There is only an authorization to allocate federal funds for the President to conduct operations against anyone he identifies as an enemy to America “using all appropriate force”. No nation is at war with America. America is at war with no nation.

The true war is more of a civil war within the borders of America. The combatants, in their most base form, are those who want to create an imperial Presidency with broad dictatorial powers not subject to review by anyone and those who stand in the way of that happening.

The objective of the Imperialists is to bring to America the policies that have for generations been visited by our government and corporations on the rest of the world. In this view, America itself is the last great economic prize left on the planet. They mean to have it for themselves.

The True Enemy

The Imperialists use savage aggression in foreign countries to spark reprisal attacks on American military personnel and civilians abroad. These attacks and casualties are then used as distractions to the American public but nonetheless are disguised as proof that our enemies are deadly and are foreign. This threat from without is supposed to justify more restrictions on dissent within America. Further restrictions on information availability are made as well. The goals are to give the Bush Administration absolute control over all information available to the American public and to stifle dissent to their objective.

The enemies of the Imperialists are many but none are foreigners in foreign lands. There is no foreigner capable of stopping their vicious quest for absolute power in America. But there are many enemies to their objective who are Americans. In fact, most Americans are their enemies in this.

The Real Objective of the Real War

Most Americans when asked about whether they support the moving of manufacturing jobs offshore are opposed to it. Most Americans when asked if they support the growing military budget are opposed to it. Most Americans when asked it they support Social Security, do. Most Americans when asked whether they support increased federal spending for social services such as education and transportation favor it. Most Americans when asked about health care say they want a single payer plan. Most Americans do not approve of wiretaps without a warrant. Most Americans believe the enormous transfer of wealth into the hands of weapons manufacturers is a waste. Most Americans believe in the Constitution and think that government officials should be bound to follow it. These Americans are the true enemy of the Imperialists in the war for absolute power because they oppose the real objectives of the Imperialists.

The neo-liberals have had as their objective a return to the unregulated economy of the Gilded Age. They have long stated their desire to eliminate the social reforms instituted by FDR to end the Great Depression. An event the neo-liberals chalk up to market forces at work. Human misery is not important to these monsters in their quest to create a real world example of their theoretical model of a market driven economy. In fact they do not want a market driven economy any more than neo-conservatives want global democracy. Neo-liberals want an economy they alone can profit from and that they control absolutely.

Thus, the real objective of the Bush Administration is for a return to the age of the Robber Barons. A time when poor people starved in America and a feudal few ruled over all with an iron fist.

To this end all other events must serve.