New World Order
Our Author
Posted on 10/08/2001 4:54:05 PM PDT by LadyJD
BLAME YOURSELVES AMERICANS, NOT OTHERS
by Winston McCuen, Phd, History
The Times Examiner Newspaper
October 3, 2001
Yes. The title got your attention, didn't it? And your angry curiosity and offended patriotism has compelled you to read on -at least this far.
You want to know how the author could dare say such a thing when so many innocent Americans have just lost their lives, during an attack on American soil. Well, I shall tell you exactly how I can say to Americans and to their leaders, "Blame yourselves," and do so out of both the highest sense of patriotism and a most profound regard for truth and justice.
In the wake of the recent attacks, the very first concerns of every truly patriotic and justice-loving American should be (1) to understand the real and deeper causes of these attacks; and (2) to refuse to accept uncritically the shallow opinions and pseudo-patriotic exhortations of both our government and of its pet media. In other words, it is the solemn duty of every salt-of-the-earth, conservative American to bow out of the current war hysteria and nationalistic blustering, and to leave that mindlessness and false patriotism to those who do it best -i.e., the liberals.
In fact, the truly patriotic American will, first of all, do his history homework, and reflect long and hard on the fact that, empirically, taking the twentieth century as a whole, the single most warlike, most interventionist, most imperialistic government in the world has been the United States. Indeed, during this crisis, we will know the true patriot by his ability to honestly and fully acknowledge that central and crucially important historical truth, in spite of the fact that, for decades, he has been subjected to intense propaganda by the Establishment on the invariable saintliness, peaceful intentions, and devotion to justice of the American government in foreign affairs. But for our own good, and for the sake of our own survival in a nuclear age, we Americans need desperately to understand that the main cause of the attacks was not the fanaticism of individual terrorists, Islamic fundamentalism, or any envy-driven desire on the part of foreigners to lash out at our "virtuous" and affluent "democracy."
Instead, the main cause of the attacks was America's own interventionist, imperialistic, inter-meddling foreign policy -the decades of slaughters, injuries, impositions, and other offenses that America's bipartisan foreign policy has inflicted upon our foreign neighbors.
The natural and inevitable consequence of being an empire is having a policy of interventionism. And a natural and inevitable consequence of globalistic meddling in the affairs of foreign peoples is an understandable and perfectly reasonable resentment and hatred on their part, culminating in a desire to retaliate against the American people, using whatever means are available.
This means that it is our own globalist foreign policy -and not any foreign people or organization- which constitutes the greatest threat in the world today to the lives and freedoms of the American people.
Now, having recognized this fact, what course should American patriots take, and what policy should they advocate?
Two very different courses of action seem to present themselves, and the ultimate aim of each course is honorable peace and security through non-interventionism.
The first course, a libertarian, "reformist" proposal, calls upon the United States government to abandon its policy of global interventionism: to withdraw immediately and completely, militarily and politically, from Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, from everywhere. Accordingly, the libertarian reformer argues that the United States should dismantle its foreign bases, withdraw its troops from foreign soil, stop its incessant and dangerous political meddling, and abolish the CIA. It should end all foreign aid. In short, the US government should withdraw totally to within its own borders and maintain a policy of strict political "isolation" or neutrality everywhere.
But the practical obstacles confronting our libertarian reformer appear quite massive, and are indeed, well nigh insurmountable. Such a radical change in foreign policy would necessarily require for its fulfillment a massive overhauling and downsizing of the entire American government itself -back to a truly federalistic constitutional regime with strictly limited powers.
But political experience tells us that even the best-intentioned attempts to radically reform and reduce large concentrations of governmental power tend to end up, paradoxically enough, making government even more massive and irresponsible than before. (Recent examples of this paradoxical tendency in operation include the ill-fated reform attempts, in the 1980s, of President Reagan and of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.)
A second course of action, aimed at abandoning globalist interventionism and at embracing peaceful non-interventionism, would be for all true and informed American patriots to advocate the peaceful and lawful secession of states from the American Empire. This "secessionist" course of action seems far more practical and realizable than libertarian reformism, in at least one major respect, because with secession, there would be no need to even attempt to reform, reduce, and render responsible to citizens a massive, overwhelming, and ossified governmental structure that is, in all probability, beyond any realistic hope of reform.
This means that Southern, Western, and even Northern secessionists, could start all over from scratch, reconstructing their respective self-governments without hindrance from old and over-grown governments and their inter-meddling bureaucracies. As true American patriots, the seceding Southern states would be free to embrace genuine constitutionalism, strictly limited government, and the foreign policy of a truly free and secure people-which would include armed neutrality, no entangling alliances (including NATO and Israel), and a constitutional article prohibiting empire.
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It's your fault you got raped because you wore suggestive clothing.
It's your fault you were hurt in a car wreck because you didn't see the drunk coming toward you would probably make a right turn in front of you.
It's your own fault for working in the US and sending money home to your poor family: you should have dropped out of high school and sat around spouting propaganda about how wicked America is, not immigrating here and working for a living. (several thousand immigrants worked in the NY Trade towers)
It's your own fault for opposing the Russian invasion of Afghanistan,
it's your own fault for opposing Sadam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and stopping him before he invaded Saudi Arabia.
It's your own fault that Abraham threw out his olderst son Ishmael, and favored his son Isaac
It's your own fault that Charles Martel opposed the Arab invasion at Tours.
it's your own fault that the League of Nations mandated that Balfour Mandate in 1919.,
It's our own fault that (according to the Globe) Ben Laden's sexual apparatus was so puny that a western girl made fun of him, thereby making him hate all Europeans
It's your fault that we didn't nuke Afghanistan instead of sending a one million dollar missle into Ben Laden's ten dollar tent, and merely doing a sigmoidoscopic explosion on his camel
It's our own fault for allowing the British and French to decolonize these pest holds, and allowing these countries to be run by two bit dictators that live high on the hog and allow their own people to live in the dirt.
Did I forget anything?
Such as our meddling in foreign affairs that saved Europe and the world from Hilter,Mussolini and Japan...that saved the Kuwaiti people from Saddam.....that saved Muslim peoples in Bosnia..in Kosovo....that's provided more food and humanitarian aid to Afghanistan's poverty-stricken population than any other country on earth....just as it has done in Somalia and Ethiopia while their own Gov'ts did nothing to help their own people......
This is only part of the list that clearly establishes America as the most benevolent, humanitarian and indeed good nation this world has ever seen.
The author of this article is clearly an example of the inverted mentality and darkened heart of those who defend evil while they show contempt for good.
Pathetic.
Accordingly, the libertarian reformer argues that the United States should dismantle its foreign bases, withdraw its troops from foreign soil, stop its incessant and dangerous political meddling, and abolish the CIA. [] In short, the US government should withdraw totally to within its own borders and maintain a policy of strict political "isolation" or neutrality everywhere.But the practical obstacles confronting our libertarian reformer appear quite massive, and are indeed, well nigh insurmountable.
I'll say. Starting with the U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 2, 1&2, and Article VI, 2. After that, of course, our "libertarian reformer," after having dismantled our military because it is too "large," will have to deal with the small "obstacle" of the barbarians at the gate.
But as an aside, I can't see how a libertarian would have a problem with that (in principle).
This means that it is our own globalist foreign policy -and not any foreign people or organization- which constitutes the greatest threat in the world today to the lives and freedoms of the American people.
Agreed.
IMO, you can reduce this policy down to just three words:
New World Order.
Phd, huh? Further proof that knowledge and wisdom are two totally seperate concepts.
A good example that Phd stands for "Piled Higher and Deeper!"
Mark
Unbridled hubris, the hallmark of the educrat liberal elitist Marxist American-hating professors...
One wonders, why you would post such a disgusting piece, which (considering a bloody history professor wrote it, is remarkably inaccurate, with regard to historical precedents leading up to this conflict...).
Perhaps, before posting this sort of excretia, you would do a little more research. Like finding out the FACTS...?
Try THIS.
A lie. And a pathetic lie at that. Just because you WANT to characterize American foreign relations as "imperialism" doesn't make it so. Empirically, that is.
We were the same sort of "interventionist" as a cop in a bad neighborhood going after muggers, theives and murderers. If you oppose that sort of "interventionism," you're not welcome in my neighborhood.
Incidentally, advocating the destruction of the United States is neither conservative, nor patriotic.
No idea what gouda cheese is... I do enjoy, however, a good feta cheese, preferably with cabernet sauvignon. Interestingly enough, I've found the Beringers' founders' estate cab to be quite acceptable.
Then again, it's usually that, or MGD. Take your pick... 8^)
FReegards,
One of the hallmarks of conservatism is its belief that America, with all her faults, is still the greatest nation on earth, and that it got that way not through "imperialism," "expansionism," "hegemony" or any of the other cliches used to denigrate its achievments. America got where it is by hard work, a sound ethic, and a willingness to stand together when the times called for unity.
None of that ethos is reflected in this polemic. This is "Blame America First" sugar-coated to attract the vacuous crowd. Nice try, but no sale.
It was- by Britain and France, after Germany invaded Poland, Sept. 1, 1939.
USA had to save their proverbial bacons...
And of course, free the Frenchies, after they were rolled up like an old carpet...
FReegards.
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