Posted on 07/25/2006 1:47:25 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot
Finding itself in Republican sights and with no Democratic power center to offer protection, National Public Radio is turning into an upscale version of Fox "News."
Nevertheless, information still gets out if the listener is sufficiently attentive.
On July 5, NPR's "All Things Considered" interviewed two warmongers for their views on the North Korean missile test. One was Ashton Carter, a Clinton administration assistant secretary of defense, now at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The other was Ambassador Christopher Hill, an assistant secretary of state in the Bush regime.
The Clinton DoD assistant secretary is coauthor of a recent article advocating a unilateral U.S. military attack on North Korea. His first pitch on NPR was that the whole region, not just the United States, is threatened by North Korea and that everyone should gang up to make it behave.
The NPR interviewer asked Carter to reconcile his multilateralism with his own recommendation for the United States to unilaterally attack North Korea. Carter replied that North Korea's missile was developed to attack us, so we had to protect ourselves.
When the NPR interviewer asked Carter why deterrence would fail with North Korea when deterrence succeeded in the case of the more powerful Soviet Union, Carter agreed that North Korea was not sufficiently insane to launch an attack on the United States. So, if the United States is not in danger of being attacked by North Korea, why does Carter want to attack?
The answer is, well, you see, if we permit North Korea to develop any weapon with which they might be able to stand up to us on some issue critical to North Korea. Well, they might not do as we want them to do.
Carter could not conceive of a world in which any country existed that might be able to behave differently than the United States dictates.
Hill agreed, but he came at it in a different way.
Hill's view is that it is China, Japan, and South Korea's responsibility to make North Korea behave as the United States wants it to. Both Hill and Carter agreed that no country, with the exception of Israel, has a right to any interests of its own unless it is an interest that coincides with U.S. interests. No other interest is legitimate.
Listening to the pair of hegemonic maniacs, I realized that the United States is the new Rome - there is no legitimate power but us. Any other power is a potential threat to our interests and must be eliminated before it gets any independent ideas. The United States, however, is far more dangerous than Rome.
Rome saw its world as the Mediterranean and, for a while, Northern Europe. But the United States thinks the whole world is its oyster. The Bush regime is busy trying to marginalize Russia, and neocons are preparing war plans to attack China before that country can achieve military parity with the United States.
Gentle reader, consider what it means when our government believes other countries have no right to their own interests unless they coincide with U.S. interests. It means that we are the tyrant country. We cannot be the tyrant country without being perceived as the tyrant country. Consequently, the rest of the world unites against us.
How is the United States, which has spent three years proving that it cannot successfully occupy Iraq, a small country of only 25 million people, going to control India, China, Russia, Europe, Africa, and South America?
It's not going to happen.
What it does mean is that the U.S. government, in its hubris and delusion, is going to continue starting wars and attacking other countries until a coalition of greater forces smashes us. Even among our European allies we are already perceived as the greatest threat to world peace and stability.
Our power is not what it once was. We are weak in manufacturing and dependent on China for advanced technology products. We are dependent on China to finance our wars, our budget, and our trade deficits. How long will China accommodate us when it reads about Bush's plans to prevent it from achieving military parity?
The Bush regime thinks that it can have every country under its thumb. Neocons are fond of proclaiming that it is a unipolar world in which the United States is supreme. This is a fantasy, and it is rapidly becoming a nightmare.
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More PCR idiocy.
STOP! PLEASE STOP!
Yeah, paleo-con isolationism would work so much better.
It's all your fault!
This be the sweetest repost: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672088/posts
Why doesn't "Paul Craig Roberts" move to France where he can find fellowship with other Jew haters and surrender monkeys?
That's rich!!
NPR is turning into Fox News? What planet is this fool living on?
Who is PCR?
Doom on you, Paul.
Clinton fooled us (generally speaking) and the Western world into believing that everything was okay, when it most certainly wasn't. Lots of information regarding the threats posed by the terrorists who attacked us in repeatedly following the 1993 WTC bombing went undisclosed.
The Clinton legacy is one of a false security. The same false security used by Enron executives to float the company long enough for them to make millions before their scam failed. The same false security an employer of a failing business may use to keep his staff from abandoning him to look for new work. Bill Clinton sold us a lame horse, and told us he was a champion, and we were suckered.
George Bush has been firm and clear from 9/11 onward that there is a threat out there that won't quit until they win. It is an ancient struggle between Islam's imperial imperatives and the sovereignty of its neighbors. The biggest obstacle to Islamic domination of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa is the United States. We weren't attacked for past grievances against Muslims. The Muslims threw the first stone, and they intend to throw the last one as well. When you're dealing with people like that, the only option is to be the one who throws the last stone. It is submit or be conquered. Islamists will accept nothing less than that. And GWB has been very clear that this is a war not of our choosing. That this is a war which has been going on for a long time. That this is a battle between civilizations. That it is us, against them - and that everybody who doesn't stand with us had better stand aside or be ready to be treated as an enemy.
I no longer harbor any illusion that Paul Roberts is sane. The next article I read about him better include something about his double lobotomy surgery.
Proof positive!
Cynical about America. Routine "liberalism."
This beyond a doubt is the most utterly stupid comment of Robert's long career of making utterly as sine statements.
In the last 48 months the US Economy has GROWN more then the entire Chinese Economy produces. NONE of our "advance technology products" were invented anywhere but RIGHT here. The United States LEADS the world in technological innovation. Think of any major technological advance in the last 30 years. Guess what, WE created them. The rest of the world merely refines the technologies WE create. The US edge in Military strength, technological innovation, finance, R&D and every other measurement of National Strength is so far in advance of every possible combination of nation states that NO one can seriously threaten the US. The ONLY people who can defeat the US is our home grown traitors in the Democrat Party and our Junk Media.
The US Military continues to research, design and field advance weapons system that are generations ahead of anything ANY where in the world. The Chinese currently are buying up 30 year old Soviet Russian military leftovers.
Robert's is not merely wrong. He does not merely have a different opinion. In this article he show he has completely lost all touch with reality.
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