August 13, 2007
Where Bush's New Cold War is Headed
The Hegemony of the Cockroach
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
The Russian and Chinese militaries have been conducting a joint military exercise involving large numbers of troops and combat vehicles. The former Soviet Republics of Tajikistan, Kyrgkyzstan, and Kazakstan are participating. Other countries appear ready to join the military alliance.
This new potent military alliance is a real world response to neoconservative delusions about US hegemony. Neocons believe that the US is supreme in the world and can dictate its course. The neoconservative idiots have actually written papers, read by Russians and Chinese, about why the US must use its military superiority to assert hegemony over Russia and China.
Cynics believe that the neocons are just shills, like Bush and Cheney, for the military-security complex and are paid to restart the cold war for the sake of the profits of the armaments industry. But the fact is that the neocons actually believe their delusions about American hegemony.
Russia and China have now witnessed enough of the Bush administration's unprovoked aggression in the world to take neocon intentions seriously. As the US has proven that it cannot occupy the Iraqi city of Baghdad despite five years of efforts, it most certainly cannot occupy Russia or China. That means the conflict toward which the neocons are driving will be a nuclear conflict.
In an attempt to gain the advantage in a nuclear conflict, the neocons are positioning US anti-ballistic missiles on Soviet borders in Poland and the Czech Republic. This is an idiotic provocation as the Russians can eliminate anti-ballistic missiles with cruise missiles. Neocons are people who desire war, but know nothing about it. Thus, the US failures in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Reagan and Gorbachev ended the cold war. However, US administrations after Reagan's have broken the agreements and understandings. The US gratuitously brought NATO and anti-ballistic missiles to Russia's borders. The Bush regime has initiated a propaganda war against the Russian government of V. Putin.
These are gratuitous acts of aggression. Both the Russian and Chinese governments are trying to devote resources to their economic development, not to their militaries. Yet, both are being forced by America's aggressive posture to revamp their militaries.
Americans need to understand what the neocon Bush regime cannot: a nuclear exchange between the US, Russia, and China would establish the hegemony of the cockroach.
Today, America's influence in the world is limited to its payments of tens of millions of dollars to bribed heads of foreign governments, such as Egypt's and Pakistan's. The Bush regime even thinks that as it has bought and paid for Musharraf, he will stand aside and permit Bush to make air strikes inside Pakistan. Is Bush blind to the danger that he will cause an Islamic revolution within Pakistan that will depose the US puppet and present the Middle East with an Islamic state armed with nuclear weapons?
Considering the instabilities and dangers that abound, the aggressive posture of the Bush regime goes far beyond recklessness. The Bush regime is the most irresponsibly aggressive regime the world has seen since Hitler's.
If only a sweet young thing would volunteer to give Bush a blowjob so that he can be impeached before he leads us to Armageddon.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration.I grabbed this off Alex Cock-burn's Counterpunch by way of J. Orlin Grabbe.
How about that "most aggressive regime the world has seen since Hitler's." Siegheil, folks; what's that, goosestepping I hear coming down the streets of Today's America.
In the meantime, 500 people lost their chance at continued existence in beautiful Baghdad yesterday, 7 or 8 of them more American troopers--it's up near 4,000 dead now--1000 private contractors dead, so that makes an even 5,000 dead fighting for a hopeless and miscreant idea--fighting because of a lie--in order for Georgie Porgie Bush, the weak son, to get revenge for Saddam Hussein "trying to kill my old saggy Pappy"--now Bush wants his revenge on Iran--his old Pappy had a hand in that mess, too, you know--and our troopers keep on going over there, volunteering to die for a lie--the silly bastards--dying for a lie--dying over a paper-created enemy that is now so widespread it's like a mammoth terrorist group now where it once was a caveful of old twisted Saudi-Arabians who were out to kick the Royal Family out of Saudi Arabia and make the Bin Ladens (you can read "Bushes" in that, too) the Royal Family. Now we are told Al Queda (the CIA-invented boogieman--we still say there's no such thing as Al Queda) are now the leading insurgency group in Iraq, plus, it seems, according to Unka Dick, Al Queda have taken over Iran by the bye so see we have to go in there now and maybe give those towellhead bastards a nuclear blood bath. Such heathen bullshit. When will it end--by the twelfth of never?
thegrowlingwolf
for The Daily Growler
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