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Suicidal Statecraft
George Bush presides over the decline of his own presidency
By Michael Carmichael
Global Research, April 4, 2007
Planetary Movement
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The cold hand of the cosmic clock has now moved well past one minute
to midnight. We are spiraling downwards in an unstoppable vortex
impelled by the winds of war.
Humanity=E2=80=99s implacable will to war has filled the cup with blood that
now runneth over staining the Psalms of David. A brutal warrior and
rhapsodic poet of war, David danced in triumphant jubilation after
consigning his many victims to defeat, death and horrific
desecrations. David decapitated the corpses of his victims and drank
deeply in celebration of their utter devastation in his ghastly Bronze
Age rituals of conquest.
Reeling on the edge of environmental catastrophe and teetering on the
brink of world war, our aging planet is seized by an attack of
vertigo. We are now experiencing a moment of panic before the
inevitable plunge into the yawning abyss of World War III. The shade
of King David rises from his grave, his murderous character intact
after thirty centuries in the underworld.
At this critical moment in history, many nations are headed by weak,
spineless and sniveling political leaders. A quartet of cowardly men
command and control the agendas of major nations. These men are
themselves bullied and beaten and battered by malignant powers intent
on wreaking carnage, calamity and catastrophe upon the world in
pursuit of capital, power and influence as well as the cruel Davidic
satisfactions of mass murder, genocide and torture.
The chthonic ritual of war is uncoiling ineluctably before us. Right
before our very eyes we are witnessing the disintegration of our
collective psyche that yearns for peace. The serpent is sloughing its
skin. A new age is being born from the death throes of an older era,
an epoch dominated by hatred, fear, power, greed, dizzying hierarchies
of madness and the limitless scandals of religious orthodoxies gone
totally insane to the point of deliberate and premeditated Apocalyptic
statecraft.
Humanity enters a vortex so powerful, so irresistible, so
unsustainable that the consequences are nothing less than the suicide
of our species and a holocaust for millions of other hapless species
that populate our severely damaged planet.
In the United States, George Bush presides over the decline of his own
presidency. Every day, more popular support slips away from his
enfeebled grasp. Every week sees the decline of the numbers of
American citizens who approve of Bush=E2=80=99s calamitous presidency. Bush=
is
now the most unpopular president in American history =E2=80=93 and he is
trending lower. In the United Kingdom, Tony Blair is the least popular
Prime Minister in that nation=E2=80=99s history, and he is dropping lower. =
In
Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presides over a regime deeply unpopular with
his own people, making him the weakest head of government since the
fall of the Shah three decades ago. In Israel, Ehud Olmert=E2=80=99s popular
support has now slipped to the nearly unbelievable level of precisely
two percent =E2=80=93 and he is trending lower still now bound for a darken=
ing
gehenna of political mortification, tribulation and ultimately death
as his approval rating drifts down to absolute zero.
While Bush, Blair, Olmert and Ahmadinejad all claim to be legitimate
leaders of their people, the opinions of the peoples they govern deny
them and their policies any right to the mantle of democracy. The
people of America, Britain, Iran and Israel yearn for peace, while
their weak and unpopular leaders yearn for war that might miraculously
resuscitate their terminal regimes. These weakened leaders are
separated from the will of the people, because they have strenuously
exerted themselves in pursuit of the opposite path to the popular
will.
Bush ordered his armies into foreign lands; ignited waves of
terrorism; inflamed tides of violence and unleashed the forces of
theocratic madness in his own nation as well as launched theocratic
violence across our planet. Tony Blair swiftly acquiesced to Bush=E2=80=99s
madness for theocratic war, and he has paid the political price with
the crushing disintegration of his career as Prime Minister. A man of
myopic vision, Ehud Olmert led his nation into a war that they could
not win, yet he forced his military to perform atrocities in pursuit
of an implausible victory against a shimmering chimaera, a private
security force armed with peashooters who stood in the gateway to
Lebanon. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote theocratic screeds to his sworn
enemies and denied the proportions of the Holocaust while launching
financial warfare against the richest and most powerful nations on
earth.
When Bush and Blair baited Ahmadinejad through their control of the UN
Security Council, the Iranian president and his minions swiftly seized
fifteen British sailors from two inflatable boats in the disputed
twilight zone of the Shatt Al-Arab waterway to use them as human
shields and bargaining chips in their game with the great powers. This
act of phenomenal stupidity and cowardice will now serve nicely as the
casus belli, a necessary trigger for Bush and Blair and their
collaborator, Olmert, to launch Armageddonite warfare against the
Islamic Republic in pursuit of their heretical theocratic Judaeo-
Christian Apocalypse.
With public protests against more armed conflict mounting in London
and Tehran, both sides in the sailor crisis have softened their
positions. There is now a glimmer of hope that these hapless pawns
might be returned safely prior to the launch of the Iran War that will
eventually known as WWIII.
While the sailors may now be returned safely, Bush=E2=80=99s stupendous thr=
eat
of pre-emptive war against Iran is still in force, and a new commander
who supports the neoconservative vision of global military hegemony
has been appointed to head US Central Command, CENTCOM, the command
and control nerve center for the Gulf theater of war that includes
Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Iran. Admiral William J. Fallon, is a
stalwart loyalist of Vice President ***** Cheney and his militant
neoconservative ideology as well as the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive
war. Admiral Fallon replaces the less malleable General John Abizaid
who was forced to retire after a long series of disagreements with the
Pentagon. Another neoconservative Cheney loyalist, Admiral Timothy J.
Keating, has been quietly moved into position as head of US Pacific
Command, the position just vacated by Fallon when he was ordered to
direct CENTCOM. Quietly and subtly, while the American public wish for
a winding down of the costly, damaging and counter-productive neocon
wars, new ideological warriors have taken control of the US forces
arrayed in the Persian Gulf and the Pacific in further preparation for
the expansion of pre-emptive military aggression targeting Iran and
the Middle East.
Admiral William J. Fallon
Tons of depleted uranium will be hurled into our atmosphere in the
onslaught against Iran. This radioactive metal will disintegrate into
minute particles that will be swept up into the winds and deposited
over virtually every square centimeter of the surface of our sickened
planet contaminating plants, animals and humans in a macabre plague of
genetic warfare. Twisted chromosomes will produce monstrosities in the
wombs of mothers giving birth to a generation of victims of the
madness of 2007. Cancer rates will escalate, and diabetes will soar
tormenting the lives of people isolated from power.
In the UN Security Council, another actor played a deadly hand.
Vladimir Putin failed to veto the sanctions against Iran. Abandoning
Iran whom he sees as his competitor for the oil, petroleum and energy
market, Putin has recently outlawed political opposition to his ruling
party. Under Putin, the Russian economy has been reoriented to compete
with the west for the global energy market. Under Putin, the Russian
state wrenched control of capital from the privateers who first seized
the prizes of oil, gas and energy latent under the soil of Russia and
its allies in the former provinces of the late USSR. Today, Putin is
poised to lord it over many of his erstwhile competitors in their
crumbling western empires: Bush and Blair. Never deeply committed to
the western model of democracy, Russia is returning to its
oligarchical roots in the Czarist autocracy of the Romanovs.
The diplomacy of the Bush and Blair regimes has failed to resolve
international disputes and to fit recalcitrant Islamic nations into
their prescribed neoconservative molds. Desperate for a diplomatic
breakthrough, ***** Cheney personally descended from his Olmpian
chambers in the West Wing to negotiate face-to-face with the heads of
Islamic nations. Cheney went away empty handed. After meeting with
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Cheney went away assured within his own
beautiful mind that he had the support of the most powerful head of
state in the Middle East. Indeed, King Abdullah has worked miracles.
His first miracle was to bridge the gap between Fatah and Hamas, the
two Palestinian parties who were at war with one another, by arranging
for them to talk and to reconcile their differences in Mecca. After
the historic Meccan pacification of the parties in Palestine, the King
turned his vast attention to bringing all 22 Arab nations into a grand
peace formation behind a fair and rational settlement with the state
of Israel =E2=80=93 one that eradicates a perennial point of contention =E2=
=80=93 the
diplomatic recognition of the state of Israel. In return, the Arabic
proposal grants the Palestinians the right to return to the homes that
they were forced to leave behind during the harsh ethnic-cleansing of
Palestine that began in 1948.
Immediately, Ehud Olmert rebuked the Arab peace proposal by
categorically rejecting the right of Palestinians to return to the
homes and gardens they owned before the 1948 war. Olmert=E2=80=99s strategy=
of
perpetual war is blatantly obvious. Now that the seemingly impossible
hurdle of the Arabic recognition of Israel has been cleared by over
twenty sovereign nations in one fell swoop, Olmert has erected another
hurdle to peace =E2=80=93 the right of return =E2=80=93 to obstruct diploma=
tic
negotiations and buy time for the continuation of the apartheid
policies of his right wing government of Israel. In taking this
belligerent course, Olmert did not stop to think about the history of
his own people. Had he done so, he might not have chosen the path of
obstruction of Palestinian property rights.
In the aftermath of WWII and the absolutely Hellish horrors of the
Holocaust, Jews were granted the right of return to their homes in
Germany, Austria, Poland and everywhere else in Europe. Kosovans and
Bosnians have been granted the right to return to their homes and
properties after the ethnic-cleansing in the Balkans. The citizens of
Burundi, Cambodia, East Timor, Georgia, Guatemala, Mozambique, Ruanda,
South Africa, Tajikistan, Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan have all been
permitted to return to their homes, farms and gardens =E2=80=93 sometimes
enforced by multinational forces including the United States and the
UN. But, Ehud Olmert refuses to negotiate the return of the private
property of Palestinians made homeless and destitute by the state of
Israel. Conducting himself in such a manner may well explain Olmert=E2=80=
=99s
disastrous unpopularity among the people of Israel and the Jewish
diaspora.
Alas, this week while meeting with his Arabic cousins, King Abdullah
stated the obvious, =E2=80=9CIn the beloved Iraq, the bloodshed is continui=
ng
under an illegal foreign occupation and detestable sectarianism.=E2=80=9D T=
he
King=E2=80=99s statement dashed ***** Cheney=E2=80=99s dream of a limitless =
expanse of
Arabic patience with the neoconservative hell on earth he and Bush
have constructed in Iraq. Worse for them, the Arabs are more cohesive
and focused that at any previous time in their recent history. The
time-clock is ticking, and Cheney can hear the sounds of approaching
thunder.
Under these increasingly dire circumstances, Cheney, Bush and Olmert
are contemplating policies that for others would be tantamount to
political suicide =E2=80=93 the radical expansion of their war in Iraq to
engulf Iran and the entire crescent from Lebanon through Syria, Iraq,
Iran and Afghanistan in one explosive arc of religious warfare.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been selected as the fall-guy, the =E2=80=9Cpatsy=
=E2=80=9D of
the plot. With his nascent nuclear program that all experts agree is
years away from producing a bomb, Ahmadinejad has =E2=80=93 by the pursuit =
of
a suicidal statecraft of his very own =E2=80=93 moved into position as the
bete noir now that he has seized human hostages in the Shatt Al Arab.
For months, the Iranians have been engrossed in war games largely in
response to the American and British presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Americans have orchestrated war games on land and sea in a coiling
arc surrounding the Islamic Republic with provocative exercises from
Azerbaijan and Kurdistan into the Persian Gulf all book-ended by their
occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq on the eastern and western
frontiers of Iran. There is little wonder why Ahmadinejad=E2=80=99s Iran fe=
els
targeted.
When dealing with the Islamic nations, war, coercion and intimidation
are the only languages known unto Bush, Blair and Olmert. That is why
in the future, the Bush Era will represent a black hole in the fabric
of history =E2=80=93 just as it does to the majority of the people alive on
our planet today. War, brutality, the bestiality of torture and the
technological plagues of radiation strewn around the globe by Bush,
Blair, Cheney and Olmert will blight this period of time like an
unwanted coda to the massive mutilations, genocides and Holocaust of
the previous century.
It need not have been this way. A better grade of leader could have
done things differently. In fact, only three decades ago, a better
leader dealt with the Islamic Republic when they seized 53 American
hostages and held them in custody refusing to release them for over
one year. Jimmy Carter was besieged by all and sundry, in his own
party, in the Republican Party and by his own staff in the West Wing
to drop the diplomacy and to wage war on Iran. Carter chose to
continue quiet diplomacy even at the cost of losing the presidency
rather than launching what could have been a millenial war between the
west and Islam. Quietly, certainly and safely, Carter flew to
Wiesbaden, Germany to greet the hostages upon their release from
Tehran. All were safe, and all returned to their homes in America. In
the next presidency, the officials serving Ronald Reagan would embroil
the Islamic Republic in controversy and subterfuge, the Iran Contra
Conspiracy that despoiled that decade with its cynical covert
operations to support death squads in Central America.
Unfortunately, one of Carter=E2=80=99s successors =E2=80=93 George Walker B=
ush =E2=80=93 has
no capacity for diplomacy. Neither has Bush followed the well-
established traditions of the American presidency. By engulfing
America in a succession of foreign misadventures =E2=80=93 and longing to
increase their severity and number =E2=80=93 Bush has repudiated the sage
advice of presidents from George Washington to his immediate
predecessor. Bush has displaced the platform of peace as the
cornerstone of American foreign policy with a platform of pre-emptive
war that he proudly proclaims as =E2=80=9CThe Bush Doctrine.=E2=80=9D Washi=
ngton,
Adams and Carter would never have committed America to such a drastic
course.
Another glaring distinction between Bush=E2=80=99s presidency and all the
others that went before him has been his repudiation of the separation
of church and state. By implementing an undisguised Christian
prejudice in funding state programs, Bush has become the theocratic
president, a notion that is troubling for the people he governs and
deeply disturbing for scholars of constitutional history.
Many have noticed Tony Blair=E2=80=99s references to his own religious
preferences as comforting him in his decision to support the
theocratic shift in Bush=E2=80=99s America. In Israel, there are theocratic
parties in the Knesset and theocratic policies in the constitution. In
Occupied Iraq, the constitution has theocratic elements. In Lebanon =E2=80=
=93
a nation governed by Fouad Siniora, a friend of Bush=E2=80=99s theocratic
White House =E2=80=93 there are numerous theocratic elements that encumber =
the
people from expressing their will through democratic processes. The
same can be said for the nations that adhere most closely to American
policy throughout the Middle East, including: Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
Kuwait and many of the Gulf States.
Seymour Hersh and Michel Chossudovsky have informed us that the goal
of the Bush theocracy is to Balkanize the entire Middle East. By
transforming the Middle East into a patchwork of religious enclaves,
fiefdoms, satrapies and states, Bush=E2=80=99s neoconservative presidency
hopes to dismember the region for centuries to come.
By dividing, conquering and infantilizing the Islamic nations, America
and its allies will have much more leverage and political control of
the oil, gas and energy reserves unique to the region. In an age of
diminishing oil supplies, this power would give the American Imperium
virtual dictatorial control over world civilization for centuries to
come.
Twelve days ago, I visited the Hermann Hesse Museum in Montagnola.
There on a clear day filled with golden sunlight and surrounded by the
space, the architecture, the mementoes and artifacts of his life, the
memories of Hesse=E2=80=99s masterpieces came flooding back into my mind.
In Demian, Hesse describes the deeply troubling premonitions of the
First World War. In what is sometimes described as the world=E2=80=99s first
psychoanalytical novel, Max Demian tells Emil Sinclair,
=E2=80=9CI still know nothing except that something is going to happen on a
vast scale, something dreadful in which I myself will be involved.
Sinclair, we will take part in this event that we have discussed so
often. The world wants to renew itself. There=E2=80=99s a smell of death in
the air. Nothing can be born without first dying. But it is far more
terrible than I had thought.=E2=80=9D
Ominously, Demian informs Sinclair,
=E2=80=9CThere will be war, Sinclair =E2=80=93 the new is coming, and it wi=
ll be
terrible for those who cling to the old.=E2=80=9D
And employing symbolism, Demian explains the process in Jungian terms,
=E2=80=9CThe bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who
would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That
God=E2=80=99s name is Abraxas.=E2=80=9D
The Egyptologist Wallis-Budge informs us about the identity of
Abraxas.
=E2=80=9CAbraxas represented the 365 Aeons or emanations from the First Cau=
se,
and as a Pantheus, i.e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the
head of a ***** (Phoebus) or of a lion (Ra or Mithras), the body of a
man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of
the Agathodaimon. In his right hand he grasps a club, or a flail, and
in his left is a round or oval shield=E2=80=9D
Besotted with theocratic governments driven by their peculiar
religious prejudices, the world of 2007 is still hurtling headlong
into the maw of All-God, the Pantheus, the unitary divinity - Abraxas.
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