We must learn to connect the dots between the endless war in Afghanistan, the coup in Honduras, the growing unemployment rate, the increase in the cost of living, the crisis in state budgets (home security) and the need for Nickelsville. We need to learn to connect the dots so that we can discern who the enemy is, and what powers we really need to resist and overcome if we are to offer hope for a future worth living.
The Afghan/Pakistan war is a big canary that reveals our future if we continue to submit to illusions and deceptions. This is the war no one wants to acknowledge. It is the continuation of the Bush/Cheney doctrine of permanent war for energy resources. It is now, firmly and clearly, Obama's war. It is a war that drains our national treasury, increases our military presence with corresponding military deaths, produces civilian slaughters and justifies the continuation of domestic surveillance and torture. It is another war of our increasingly fascist-with-a-friendly-face nation.
Some will smirk that I'm just a whiny, broken record. But I've got a dog in this fight. I know three people who are involved in military operations in Afghanistan. They will all come back wounded, if they come back at all. And for what? What is the noble cause?
We all know that what's important is to secure warm water ports and pipelines that will bring oil and natural gas into the hands, and under the control, of corporate profit. Our United States military is the muscle for the Banksters who reap huge profits as we the people, one by one, take the fall. Our military is not fighting in defense of the Afghani people. We are not there to support democracy, liberty and freedom. It is not our intention to one day leave that region in the self-governance of an educated populace, fully self-sufficient, using their natural resources for their own cultural development. We're there as imperial parasites imposing a resistance-is-futile doctrine. Or, in other words: We're over there as a foretaste of what is coming toward us over here.
We now know our enemy. It is capitalism itself. Think about it: Our economy went bankrupt and the response was to create money to bail out the banks, who are now full of profit and executive bonuses, while at the same time, regular folk are allowed to lose their property and hope in a wave of foreclosures that has no end in sight. Rather than become a government of the people, the government revealed its true colors as a government of the elite. Republican Bush or Democrat Obama: What does it matter, really? One gives a better speech and talks greater ideals, but both stick the knife in the back and twist.
It is a sadness that is breaking our hearts beyond repair.