Hijacking Catastrophe
- by Karen Kwiatkowski (Lt. Col. USAF retired)
Better than anyone to date, the Media Education Foundation has quietly
and accurately documented the most important history of 21st century
thus far in their recent video and DVD release, Hijacking Catastrophe:
9/11, Fear, and the Selling of American Empire.
http://www.mef.tv/index.php?agent=W1002M100904
Hijacking Catastrophe is powerful, understated, straightforward and
educational. In a single meticulously organized hour of evidence and
analysis, viewers are treated to a thoughtful explanation of modern
American empire, neo-conservatism as a driving force for the current
Bush administration, and something I have not seen before, a real
economic analysis of what is driving some of our current "global war
on terror."
The film examines the Bush Administration's investment in
neo-conservatism, and the early, and already horrific, results. While
past performance is no guarantee of future earnings, Hijacking
Catastrophe shows exactly why America's "new conservatism" is a
pyramid scheme of inhumane proportions.
The film examines eight aspects of the current situation of American
foreign policy. The film provides an explanation for the obvious
continuity between Cold War policies and those of the present. It
examines long-term neoconservative thinking and how this peculiar
version of Jacobin utopianism ascended from its rather inauspicious
political roots. The film explores the dangerous territory of how the
post 9-11 national shock was carefully cultivated by neoconservatives
in Washington to support their own long-held objectives in the Middle
East.
Hijacking Catastrophe then documents the Pentagon and White House
process of disinformation, exaggeration, and media-supported
propaganda between 9-11 and America's March 2003 invasion of Iraq. It
describes the neoconservative vision of military dominance over a
supine, energy-rich Middle East, not only for its own sake, but as a
warning to other potential international rivals.
Hijacking Catastrophe describes the cost of empire in a way so
comprehensive that it becomes clear that neo-conservatism, as a
foreign policy guide, comes with a very real moral, political and
financial garnishment of every American, and of American children yet
unborn. The cost is shown not only as a current financial outlay or in
lives unlived on the part of soldiers and marines, but in terms of an
alarming debt burden, loss of domestic freedom, the growing and
invasive state, a permanent tattering of the Constitution and Bill of
Rights.
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