Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: La crisi neo-con

Un articolo del 2003 just post war.
In cui si prevedeva il disastro finanziario per il popolo americano.
E tutti i problemi in Irak.
Articolo di un conservatore Americano, esperto in cose militari.
Un senior dell'esercito.
Si osservi come i conservatori considerino i neo-con come gente che ha
occupato con la loro demenziale ideologia lo spazio a destra.
Neo-cons wearing nazi-style flag pins.
Gli stessi badges che notavo in URSS nel 1985, se li appuntavano gli
aparatnik comunisti.
Editorial
     New York Times columnist Paul Krugman provided the best summary as to why
America easily crushed Iraq when he wrote: "I am not a military expert, but
I can do the numbers: the most recent US military budget was $400 billion,
while Iraq spent only $1.4 billion."
Actually, the USA spends almost $500 billion a year when you count spending
kept off the Defense Department books, like the Veterans Department, the
Department of Energy (whose main task is to build nuclear weapons), the
secret "Black Budget", and the now annual "Supplemental" spending.
Experts have already begun writing about "lessons learned" and concluded
that everything worked great.
This is like the Oakland Raiders defeating a junior college football team
(whose coaching staff left at half time) and then gloating about their
brilliant game plan.
     It is obvious that Iraqi leaders decided not to make a last stand in
Baghdad. They were not religious nor nationalist fanatics, so they just fled
with their loot. They saw no value in destroying oil wells, dams, bridges,
and Baghdad in futile attempt to win. We may never know if this happened
because Saddam Hussein was killed, Iraqi leaders defected, or Iraqi units
were tricked with false messages. We do know the Iraqis can fight, as
evidenced by the bloody battles at the city of An Nasiriyah, which stopped
US Marines for two weeks. News about what happened there is minimal, except
that over a hundred Marines were killed or wounded, several went missing,
and the commander of the 1st Marine regiment was relieved.
      Nevertheless, moving an army to the other side of the world and invading a
sizable country was a major challenge which the US military met. The
invasion was no brilliant maneuver, just an obvious attack straight from
Kuwait to Baghdad. Since a car can drive that route in less than a day,
arriving in Baghdad after three weeks was not a lighting strike. The
American corporate press censored negative reports and bloody images of the
war, and stories about problems are rare. The US Army's 3rd Mechanized
Division and the 1st Marine Division were hampered by dust storms, gas
guzzling M1 tanks, and a lack of armored resupply vehicles. Light infantry
from the 101st and 82nd Divisions proved too light to fight, and were
assigned security roles with tanks attached.
     The big disaster was the destruction of the Iraqi Army. Everyone assumed
they would surrender en mass, and then could be employed to keep order
around the country. However, they died or were scattered, and it will take a
long time to rebuild and equip a new Iraqi army. So who will run Iraq for a
year or so, 100,000 GIs? Don't expect the UN or Arab world to lift a finger,
and it will be interesting which nations recognize the American appointed
puppet regime in Baghdad. The USA has already chosen four sites as permanent
military bases in Iraq, and announced that Iraqi oil operations will become
free enterprise (e.g. turned over to Western oil corporations) which already
earned billions of dollars in profits as prices surged during the conflict.
The international bankers have also surfaced to demand that Iraqi oil be
used to repay billions of dollars they loaned to Saddam Hussein.
     While the war angered the Arab world, it has been a great success for the
Bush Administration and major international corporations. A year ago,
Americans were asking why Enron mobster Kenneth Lay was not in prison, why
their health care system was collapsing, why millions of illegal aliens
continue to flow across the borders, and why no one in Washington DC cares
about education. George Bush campaigned on the promise of jobs, health care
reform, and better education, as did Bill Clinton and Daddy Bush. However,
all three succumbed to the pressure from big business to secure profits and
distract the American public by starting a war.
     During these years, "conservatives" disappeared from the American political
scene, replaced by big government imperialists, who are often called
neo-conservatives, although neo-cons is more accurate since they are really
con men posing as conservatives. They are easy to spot since most wear
nazi-style flag pins. According to the CATO Institute, federal government
spending increased 0.9% annually after inflation during the eight years of
the Clinton administration. Since "conservative" Republicans took over the
Senate and White House two years ago, federal spending has shot up 4.3%
annually after inflation, all funded by borrowing money and looting the
Social Security "trust" fund.
      Corporate America keeps such facts off their television news. Instead, they
hire neo-con men like Larry Kudlow of CNBC to shout about the need for a big
tax cut in one sentence and another huge increase in military spending the
next. Kudlow should have been fired last year when it was revealed that he
was frequently paid thousands of dollars by Enron for "speaking fees" while
touting the value of Enron stock on his "news" show. Some neo-cons claim
that budget deficits don't matter, or they are good for America. If that's
the case, why not just eliminate all income taxes? And if trade deficits
don't matter, the US Government should buy every American a foreign car.
      Few Americans realize neo-cons have increased the size of the federal
government faster in two years than during the eight years of the "liberal"
Clinton administration. Military spending is now higher than Cold War
levels, even after adjusting for inflation, and will continue to grow
rapidly. Millions of Americans accept the neo-con ploy that it requires more
money to defend against a few hundred Arab fugitives than the entire Soviet
Union during the 1980s, and that another terror attack is far more
threatening than total nuclear war was with the Soviets. This neo-con
strategy is based on H. L. Mencken's revelation many years ago when he
wrote: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
      Meanwhile, the nation continues its worst economic decline since the Great
Depression. Government workers and military personnel haven't noticed this
impact as they continue to receive pay raises ahead of inflation, thanks to
big spending neo-cons. However, since they depend on the soundness of the US
government for their pensions, they should take an interest in the looming
bankruptcy of the USA. This may seem unthinkable, but not to the millions of
Russian veterans whose pensions disappeared when the Soviet Union went
bankrupt. At the minimum, inflation will soar due to rampant spending, then
Congress will take action by limiting cost of living increases for military
personnel and retirees below the rate of inflation, which is what happened
in the 1970s. Nothing is "guaranteed by law", because Congress changes laws
every week.
       Most Americans are confused about what's happening because they are told
America's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to rise. They are unaware
that GDP is just a measurement of economic activity, not prosperity or
advancement. The World Trade Center attacks were great for GDP since they
caused billions of dollars in insurance and rescue "activity". Hurricanes,
plagues, and smoking are great for GDP, as well as lawsuits, automobile
accidents, and arson. However, we are told there is no recession, and
certainly no economic depression, since GDP still grows slightly each
quarter. Yet GDP has been buoyed by population growth and such things like
airport security spending and rising credit card debt. A better measurement
of American prosperity are tax revenues, which have fallen sharply as
Americans become poorer. Last week, the US Labor Department announced that
the median inflation-adjusted weekly pay for the average worker declined
1.5% this past year, but that didn't make news. The US dollar has lost 20%
of its exchange value this past year, yet that's not newsworthy either.
      It may seem odd for this magazine to address economics, but the reality is
that the biggest threat to the national security of the United States is
hyperinflation and eventual bankruptcy. The Ross Perot movement which
deterred massive government growth has faded, and the increasing corrupt US
Congress is looting the nation. This year, the nation will borrow the same
amount of money as it spends on the entire Department of Defense. We will
also export enough dollars through trade deficits to fund the entire
Department of Defense. In short, the current dying economy is already
propped up by massive borrowing of nearly one trillion dollars a year,
through treasury bonds and IOUs in the form of unspent dollar credits.
America's leading export has become dollars, and we are lucky the computer
age allows us to export computer bytes because printing and shipping tons of
hundred dollars bills overseas would be a major burden. The USA is
benefiting from a massive game where we export dollars and then borrow them
from foreigners. The question is how long those foreign suckers will
continue accept dollars?
      This is why the neo-con hobby of insulting America's creditors is dangerous.
Foreigners have worried about the creditworthiness of the USA for years, and
the arrogant attitude of the Bush administration has made matters worse. The
USA has always been considered a safe haven for foreign investors, until the
Bush administration suspended the US Constitution and began seizing bank
accounts of anyone "suspected" of helping terrorists. This involves no
judicial process, money is just taken for use by the Justice Department. As
a result, foreigners learned that property rights in the USA are no better
than in other dictatorships, so hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign
capital in US banks and stock brokerages has fled to Europe. In addition,
America's tourism and airline industry is near collapse as insulted
foreigners no longer spend their dollars in the USA, while US business
suffers from boycotts overseas.
      Rather than addressing serious economic problems and cutting spending, the
neo-cons are pushing for tax cuts while finding new enemies to justify
another expensive foreign expedition. The US government cannot afford an
empire; it cannot even afford to run this nation of 50 states. Flooding the
world with dollars is forcing other nations to evaluate the real value of
dollars, and US treasury bonds. After the Soviet Union was destroyed by
bankruptcy, the last premier of that other superpower, Michael Gorbachev,
frequently said that an overemphasis on military power ultimately undermined
other components of national security. The USA is now on the path to
bankruptcy, led by the neo-cons and cheered by most Democrats as they scheme
to introduce the next hobgoblin to appear on corporate television to
distract the American public.
                                                                       Carlton Meyer edi...@G2mil.com
Il tema e' e rimane.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and
hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series
of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
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Palmiro Pangloss
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Come quelle sulla Ossezia.
BTW Pare proprio che la Ossetian surprise forse solo finalizzata alla firma
degli accordi per le basi antimissile in Polonia, subito dopo gli scontri,
rapida firma dei titubanti Polacchi.
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Dai.
Sto poveraccio cinque anni e mezzo fa' ha fatto una analisi centratissima,
quasi profezia.
Tu te ne vieni fuori con un ghigno, non e' corretto.
In ogni caso buon Natale
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