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War and the Republic
'War and the Republic' by Eugene Jarecki represents the latest attempt at a fifty year long cultural shift in what should be taught to children with regards to the actions of the previous administration whose legacy those children will inherit when they 'come of age'.
The long and rising road
What begins with the 'throwing off' of British Tyranny [taxation of Exports] is evasive of the guilty pleasures of their own trespasses with the dispossession of the individual.
Abandoning the singularly honest Intellectual Property of Revolution that 'no one represents anyone but themselves' in government it was soon replaced by the poisoned seed of 'American Exceptionalism' which allowed the increasingly very un-representative United States government to compare itself to a Roman Republic which became an Empire through not just the strengthening of its borders and the defeat of its enemies by the tried and true method of Borderland destabilization, the development of buffer zones of Anarchy, and the encouragement of no-mans-lands to maintain the impregnability of those borders; unmentioned is the murderous silencing of rivals (both religious and Political) to its Authoritarian leadership within the Republic, something mirrored in America's own experience with voices of dissent and human rights.
This chaotic period ends with an end in American Isolationism.
How Adolf Hitler saved America from the Great Depression
It is a tragic time in which those most affected by the incompetency and mismanagement of Public assets and wealth, and the cruel mistreatment and social isolation of an increasingly vocal underclass is quickly glossed over.
This is the rise of true Capitalism, and the idea that Wars can be profitable for the peddlers of Weapons and Technologies that support war machines. Absent is any reference to IBM's sale of equipment to the rising NAZI regime (a company not alone in its misdeeds) who will use and reverse engineer those technologies to support its own home policies.
The fact is Wars abroad prop up economies at home.
The Ethics of WW2
Only with reluctance does America's 'board room government' give way to its Elected Voices and take a stance on anything resembling ethical grounds.
Perhaps the only honest comment from a President is not the justification of the nuking of Japanese population centers with the description of Nagasaki and Hiroshima as 'Naval Bases', rather that a President might have been wrong and that the rising 'industrial-military complex must be resisted'. The capacity for the 'distortion of History' that Nuclear weapons gave the fledgling Empire was unavoidable.
The Cold and dirty War
This long and dark time that pretty much begins with the persecution of Dissenting voices for being 'Communists' and the ruthless desperation of each successive President is glossed over as little more than highlights that have no relevance to any Government document that might have a a whole lot of black texta struck through whole sentences to black out any undesirable facts that an angry populace might have cause to throw down the steps of a Parliament and set on fire.
What it doesn't end with is the decision of the Republican movement supporting Ronald Regan's rise to go behind President Carter's Back and dissuade Iranian revolutionaries from surrendering US hostages just long enough to get in a Republican Government. an act that would have qualified as an act of Treason carrying a Death sentence for quite a few in the Republican White House.
The Iran Contra affair is the last time US support for international terrorist organizations through the CIA is ever mentioned in writing despite its financial support well into the year two thousand for the Taliban's overthrow of a Soviet backed Afghanistan and the subsequent unification of a chaotic Afghanistan in Soviet withdrawal. or its relationship with Al Qaeda prior to the first terrorist attacks on the Trade Towers in 1993 and aggression toward US forces abroad.
The 911 Hoax
The Terrorist assault on US soil on September 11, 2001 resulted in the loss of almost three thousand lives. What it represents is a public US failure to comprehend that the deliberate destabilization of its rivals abroad through decades of financing and supporting global Terrorism had come home to 'bite them in the arse'. They had missed the precursor warning set by Chechnya's rebels supported by the US in the Soviet break up who in expanding their repertoire to include K and R (Kidnap and Ransom), uncharacteristically executed kidnapped telecommunications technicians installing public telephones and looted their truck load of Fiber optic equipment, which they sold to the Iraq Government; A State who likely used it in their early warning systems.
Perhaps what distinguished the remainder of this year is the absence of the Anthrax attacks and the fact that one of its own employees had unleashed a murderous plague to further instill a culture of fear with regards to any dissenting voice that might suggest condone reason, forth ought, or a desperate need for ethics. Despite that quietly ignored reality most still think Al Qaeda was behind the Anthrax attacks - despite arrests and silent trials to the contrary.
Human rights vs. the Patriot Act
What little evidence there is of America's Sins at home and abroad are entirely based on the leaks, rather than the facts. The culture of the black marking texta has returned. Dissenting Voices are watched, potential recruits are ostracized.
President Barack Hussein Obama
The President is wrong when he considers the past something that should be left to die there. The past is needed in those detailed history books so that next generation of 'alert and knowledgeable citizenry' can defend the Republic from the 'Return of the Sith' and bring it back from the dark and bloody room in which it has been locked away. The Republic is that little girl shackled to a wall in that room while she is raped by the monster that would father its future upon her. She is not something to abandon to the past.
'War and the Republic' by Eugene Jarecki can be found at www.whywefight.com
Sean Robert Meaney