On the Nature of the US and American Foreign Policy
by Prof. Vladislav Sotirovic
A Hegemonic Stability Theory is an academic foundation of the US Neocon concept of a Pax Americana
If the Nuremberg Laws were applied, then every post-war American President would have been hanged.” Noam Chomsky
Eurasia
Henry Kissinger, one of the fundamental figures in creating and maintaining the US policy of global hegemonism during the Cold War[1], was quite clear and precise in his overviewing the issue of the American geopolitical position, national goals and foreign policy. His remarks can be summarized in the following points:
- The US is an island off the shores of the large landmass of Eurasia.
- The resources and population of Eurasia far exceed the resources and population of the US.
- Any domination by any single state from Eurasia (either from the European or the Asian part) is a critical danger for the American geopolitical and geoeconomic aims as well as national interest regardless during or after the time of the Cold War.
- A mortal danger for the US is formation of any political-military coalitions between the Euroasian great powers (primarily between the USSR/Russia and China) as such coalition would have a real capacity to outstrip both the US economy and military.
- The US strategic global geopolitical interest is to thwart creation of such Eurasian coalition (the USSR/Russia-China)[2].
In fact, H. Kissinger recognized two fundamental facts in dealing with global geopolitics: 1) Eurasia is of the crucial global geopolitical importance; and 2) Russia is a Heartland of Eurasia[3]. Therefore, to have a control over Russia means to have a control over Eurasia and to control Eurasia means to control the rest of the world. For that reason, the US struggle against the communist USSR during the Cold War or Putin’s Russia today is nothing else than a formal pretext for a realization of the basic US geopolitical task from the global perspective: to have a control over the Heartland of Eurasia. Subsequently, any kind of independent and/or stronger Russia is not acceptable solution for the American policymakers.
The Nature of the US
In order to properly understand the post-Cold War global hegemony foreign policy by the US Administration, it is necessary to realize the very nature of the US as a state. Basically, the US foreign policy of global hegemony is shaped by two most important internal processes which have existed from the very beginning of US independent statehood (declared in 1776):
1. A mass consumerist mentality of her citizens that is deeply permeated throughout American (sub)culture;
2. Corresponding policy of maintaining world’s military supremacy for the sake to ensure privileged possession of the global goods, energy, natural resources and credit. For example, there are 800 US military bases across the globe and one of the biggest of them is located in Kosovo (Bondsteel) – one of the richest regions in Europe according to its reserves of natural resources (at least $500 billion)[4].
The American strategy of global hegemony after the WWII was not only to compete with Soviet military power and political influence but it was, and is, much more important to establish such a world that is forced to be hospitable to the growth of the US economy. Therefore, the American military-political global dominance was ideologically justified by anti-communism and the US alleged leading role in defending the “free world”.
However, after the end of the European communism, dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and dismemberment of the USSR, Washington simply justified a continuation of its Cold War policy of global hegemony by defending Europe (and probably the rest of the world) from the “Russian aggression”.
A “free world” was identified with a full acceptance of the American values, norms, political and economic systems and (sub)culture. According to such geopolitical project, all of those governments who elected not to “dance according to the American playing” became proclaimed as the enemies of “free world”, threatened with bombing and occupation (like the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999).
Nevertheless, the fundamental allegory of the American promotion of independence and democracy (the basic components of “free world”) is that this country is not either really independent (being the West Bank of Israel from 1948 onward) nor fully democratic (not being even among the first 30 democratic states in the world).
A numerous US military interventions after 1945, as an instrument for the realization of the geopolitical project of global hegemony, however, very much undermined the very meaning of democracy and led, at the same time, to large-scale human rights abuses. The concept of Pax Americana has, as its crucial strategy, to maintain cheap supplies of raw materials and especially the cheap supply of oil as the crucial energetic source for the US consumerism economy.
Therefore, immediately after the WWII the basic US strategy became to establish the American hegemony in the oil-rich countries in the region of the Middle East, supporting there all kinds of non-democratic and even dictatorial regimes who expressed political loyalty to Washington as the regimes of Iran (Persia) from the CIA/M16-sponsored coup in 1953[5] up to the Islamic Revolution in 1978−1979, Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar and above all of Saudi Arabia.
The Middle East and the “Resource War”
The beginning of this process of making the regional client states started in 1945 when the US President Franklin D. Roosevelt established a strategic partnership with Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud who was a founder of the modern Saudi royal family and ruling dynasty. The deal was that the US will protect the dynasty, which from the beginning supported fundamentalist Wahhabi brand of the Sunni Islam, from all inner and outer enemies in exchange for the US privileged access to the Saudi oil[6]. Iran was the second country of importance for the US regional “oil policy” where the fundamental American influence was established in 1953 when the CIA-M16 backed coup against democratically elected PM Mohammad Mossadegh brought to power in fact the Western oil companies[7].
Therefore, it is not any surprise that the Iranian Revolution was ideologically and politically an amalgamation of the Islamic Shiite theocracy and very strong anti-Americanism. The US hegemonic design to prevent any hostile actor from gaining any foothold in geostrategically and energetically extremely important region of the Middle East was clearly formulated in the 1980 “Carter Doctrine”. One of the fundamental reasons for formulating such doctrine was, of course, protection of the existence of the Zionist Israel and its policy of ethnic cleansing of the domestic Palestines. Therefore, the US policy to project military power into the region of the Middle East became increased substantially followed by abnormal militarization of Israel.
In the years of R. Reagan’s Administration, the US transformed the Afghani Taliban into its sponsored movement and created a long-time partnership with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for maintaining the Islamist mujahedeen Taliban military capabilities against the Soviet army in Afghanistan, and at the same time and opening possibilities for the emergence of different anti-Western jihadist military groups like al-Qaeda of Saudi Osama bin Laden who will turned their arms against their sponsors once the Soviet army left Afghanistan. Therefore, the regional militant anti-Western Islamism in different forms that emerged after the Cold War did not arise suddenly out of the framework of the US imperialistic and hegemonic geopolitical ambitions in the Middle East.
A new phase of the US policy in the Middle East came into force in 1990−1991 with the First Gulf War that was fought from the US point of view (like and the Second Gulf War in 2003 that resulted in the military occupation of Iraq) for the geopolitical maintenance of the ideology of economic security that was just wrapped into the propaganda of the 2001 G. W. Bush’s doctrine of the “War on Terror”. In essence, the US Administration fought the First Gulf War for the sake of preventing possible post-Cold War challenges to its hyperpower in global politics in the guise of “…the world’s effective policeman”[8].
G. W. Bush’s Government skilfully exploited the atmosphere of fear of the further terror attacks in the US society after the terrorist attack of 9/11, that was most probably self-constructed US-Israeli action in which al-Qaeda just played a role of executors in front of the TV cameras. Subsequently, the most hawkish faces around the US President had fantastic reason to start the realization of a long-prepared project of US worlds supremacy, unilateral actions and non-limited use of the military capacity of the Pentagon.
After the US-led coalition’s invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, which was extremely important for having direct control over the production and distribution of the Afghan heroin on the global market (one road goes via the US colony of Kosovo) and for founding a geostrategic base for the invasion of Iran (the main enemy to Israel after 1979), the invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq (fully sponsored by the US Administration of R. Reagan in the war against Iran in the 1980s) became a highest priority of Washington’s foreign policy of establishing a global empire. The Pentagon calculated that a new Iraqi colonial regime would transform its country into the US base of military operations in the very centre of the region of the Middle East – a region which is of the fundamental geostrategic global importance with huge reserves of oil and natural gas. Therefore, the region would be undertotal control by the US with its military bases in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Iraq followed by strong Israeli and Turkish armies.
Another fact is that the US is still the most oil-dependent economy in the world with a biggest mechanized war machine which consumes enormous resources, and therefore Washington’s goal was and is to prevent any global supply disruptions and/or price fluctuations. For the reason that the demand for the oil consumption was constantly growing on the world’s level and that global oil reserves became of extreme importance for the global strategic power in the recent future, the US Administration decided after the Cold War to transform whole region of the Middle East into its own courtyard for political and economic exploitation.
The realization of this plan was going smoothly up to 2014, when Moscow finally decided to crucially defend Syria from the American policy of global banditry, at the same year when the Western Russophobic Drang nach Osten policy was finally stopped in the Euromaidan’s Ukraine. From this point of view, the doctrine of “War on Terror” is crucially bound up with the American attempts to establish geostrategic dominance in extremely petrol-rich region of the Middle East for both oil consumption and prevention of rising power of China to be significantly infiltrated into the region which has to be reserved mainly for the supplying of the US economy. Essentially, the US proclaimed “War on Terror” is nothing else but profit driven the “Resource War”.[9]
Pax Americana and the “Wars of Humanitarian Intervention”
President B. Obama’s Administration continued the same G. W. Bush imperialistic policy of “Resource War”, just embracing a more multilateral style of diplomacy and going slowly out of the big ground wars and direct invasions of sovereign states.
Nevertheless, he practiced vigorous use of the American military machinery to attack those whom the Pentagon perceived to be mostly hostile to the US hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East, as well as in East Africa and South Asia. The strategy included expanded use of “kill/capture teams” operated by the US military Joint Special Operations Command, drone strikes executed by both the CIA and the US army.
B. Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize, regardless of the very fact that during his presidency there was no a single day of peace. It is calculated that Obama the Bomber dropped, during his 8 years of presidency (two terms), a bomb every 20 minutes. For instance, only up to February 2012:
“…Obama’s Administration has carried out at least 239 covert drone strikes, more than five times the 44 approved under George W. Bush. And after promising to make counter-terrorism operations more transparent and rein in executive power, Obama has arguably done the opposite, maintaining secrecy and expanding presidential authority.” [10]
The US’s aggressive, frequently brutal and inhumane foreign policy of world militarism and globalization of war for the sake of Pax Americana can be understood only within the full context of the nature of capitalism and logic of capital itself.[11]
An integral part of the US foreign policy of global hegemony is the implementation of bilateral agreements with other states to prevent US soldiers from extradition to the International Criminal Court. In order to force certain countries to conclude such agreements, the US Government threatens to withdraw its military and other forms of support if they would not be willing to sign the agreement. Many states accepted such a deal, like Israel, Romania or East-Timor[12] and therefore legitimised the US Army to legaly violate basic human rights and rules of war.
On the other hand, US authority uses military means for interventions formally for the humanitarian purposes or for protections of human rights. However, that is just a moral excuse for the realization of the American foreign policy’s goals. It was clear in many cases, but the most obvious one was in 1999 with the bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for the formal sake protecting Kosovo Albanians’ human rights.
Nevertheless, the prohibition of the use of force by the international law, as it is clearly formulated, for instance, in the UN Charter Article 2, Paragraph 4, is as well as extended to the so-called “humanitarian intervention” that refers to the unilateral threat or use of armed force by any state against another to protect the life and liberty of nationals of the latter from acts by their own governments [13]. However, there is only one possibility, according to the international law, to justify the use of force, including and in the cases of “humanitarian interventions”: it has to be accepted by the SC UN.
In other words, only if the UNSC, according to the UN Charter Articles 39−42, decides that the human rights violations in some country pose a treat to the international peace and regional security and that the measures of a military interventions are necessary, a military intervention against the other state (or its regime) is sanctioned by international law. However, as a matter of fact, the US authority never received such permission for any of its “humanitarian interventions” which practically means that the US Government is de facto above the international law and community.
The US “Wars of Humanitarian Intervention”, in overwhelming majority of cases, are based on politically motivated “false flags” produced by the intelligence services (the CIA) and backed by the global mainstream medias’ “fake news” at the same time. The Western academic writings, even by the most prestigious world’s universities and publishing houses, unfortunately, directly support such imperialistic wars by giving unproved and false “academic” feedback as is, for instance, the case with the publication Understanding Global Security by a Senior Lecturer Peter Hough at Middlesex University and published by Routledge.
The publication suggests, for instance, that the NATO “humanitarian intevention” in 1999 against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was to “Protect Kosovar Albanians from Serb massacres”[14], regardless of the fact that the only reason for such NATO aggression was to establish proper political conditions for Kosovo independence from Serbia, transformation of the region into an American political and economic colony and continuation of the historical Albanian ethnic cleansing of the local Serbs and non-Albanians[15].
Soft Power as a Method
The use of a Soft Power is another method employed by Washington in dealing with the world politics and international relations. The method refers to the capability of state (or any other actor in global politics) to influence other states, governments or actors to do what the influencer wants but through persuation, not force or direct threats. In principle, a Soft Power attracts or co-opts members of government, politicians or citizens by different means including, for instance, bribing, financial donations, offering certain benefits, education, financing political parties, organizing public seminars, etc., but it does not directly force them to do what is required.
In this respect, the formal NGOs can play very important role in promulgation of a Soft Power method of the American global imperialism like New York-based Soros Foundation and its Central European University in Budapest. The method is covering a wide scope of areas like culture, values, ideas, politics, national identity, history, rights, etc., representing in essence different but in many cases not lesser forms of influence if compared to the method of a Hard Power which implies much more direct and essentially coercive meassures (like ultimatums, economic santions or threats of use of the military force). Therefore, a Soft Power method is an another way of achieving the goals by involving persuation and encouragement usually, but not necessarily, rooted in shared norms, values or/and beliefs.
In general, the method of a Soft Power relies on two instuments:
1. Persuation – the ability to convince someone by real or false arguments.
2. An ability to attract the people by all possible means.
Banditry as a “Business as Usual”
The rulling US Neo-Con establishment started to push the American foreign policy towards the US domination over Eurasia already from the second half of the 1990s that simply ment a geopolitical struggle with Russia. The Kosovo War in 1999 became the fist direct challenge to Russia’s national dignity and geopolitical interests in the region. The architects of the US „Eurasia’s imperialism“ understood quite well that a broader Middle East (including and the Balkans and the North Africa) was at the heart of the Eurasian problem from different points of view: geopolitical, ideological, economic and strategic.
Therefore, both Gulf Wars and the Kosovo War and the Afghan War in between were fought primarily in order to demonstrate the US strong intention to absolutely dominate over a Greater Middle East in the post-Cold War era. The Second Gulf War in 2003 was a war of showing to the rest of the world that the US foreign policy of the open banditry is going to be a “business as usual” which had to be silently accepted by the international community. As a matter of fact, it was quite clear that Iraq in 2003 could not develop any kind of effective weapons of mass destruction, including and any kind of the ABC weapons due to the effective UN economic and other sanctions against S. Hussein’s Government.
Furthermore, in 1991 Iraq already was seriously defeated that it could not think for a longer period of time even about just revitalizing of its regular army which became weakened even after the Iraq-Iran War in the 1980s. In general, after the First Gulf War in 1991, there was not any serious threat to US interests in the Persian Gulf region and therefore no real reason for the Pentagon to keep up the US presence there.
The US Neo-Con’s right-wing hawks became influential enough in the Clinton’s, and later the Bush’s, Administrations to decide to compell Kissinger’s goal of continued US domination over a Greater Middle East as in their mind the First Gulf War was a failure war because unchallenged American dominance over the region was not established. Such foreign policy shift in the Clinton Administration became led by a Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her mentor a Polish born Zbigniew (Zbig) Brzezinski who was a US National Security Advisor in the Carter Administration (and above all an ardent Russophobe).
Therefore, US imperialism started and complettd three wars in the area of a Greater Middle East during the Clinton and the Bush Administrations from 1999 to 2003: the Kosovo War in 1999, the Afghan War in 2001 and the Second Gulf War in 2003.
However, the Arab Spring in 2011 and especially the Russian military intervention in Syria from 2014 onward clearly have shown that the area of the Middle East is still not an exclusive American colonial domain.
Conclusion
To conclude, from the very beginning of the existence of the USA in 1776 warfare was, is and probably will continue to be the nature of American life and (sub)civilization[16]. This very fact is a direct product and consequence of the nature of the economic system of the US and the consumerism mentality of its citizens. The effects on the world’s security and global peace are obvious.
God created war so that Americans would learn geography” Mark Twain
- [1] A Jew, Henry Kissinger was a National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under the US Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He also advised many other American Presidents on the US foreign policy and global politics. He was one of the most responsible persons for the CIA-organized military putsch in Chile in 1973 and for the US envolvement and atrocities committed in Vietnam. Nevertheless, H. Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Prize and Medal of Liberty, among other awards. He is one of the most notorious symbols of the US gangster-style foreign policy.
- [2] John Rees, Imperialism and Resistance, London−New York: Routledge, 2006, 18. On this issue, see more in: Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy, New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1994; Henry Kissinger, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century, New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2001; Henry Kissinger, World Order, New York: Penguin Books, 2015.
- [3] Срђан Перишић, Нова геополитика Русије, Београд: Медија центар „Одбрана“, 2015.
- [4] Кавкаски Албанци лажни Илири, Београд: Пешић и синови, 2007.
- [5] James C. Van Hook (ed.), Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952−1954: Iran, 1951−1954, Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, 2017
- [6] Michael Klare, “Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy: Procuring the Rest of the World’s Oil“, Foreign Policy in Focus, 2004: www.fpif.org.
- [7] On the CIA’s “dirty wars”, see Douglas Valentine, The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World, Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, INC, 2017.
- [8] John Rees, Imperialism and Resistance, London−New York: Routledge, 2006, 17
- [9] Michael Chossudovsky, America’s “War on Terrorism” in the Wake of 9/11, Second edition, Montréal, Canada: Center for Research on Globalization, 2005
- [10] David Rhode, “The Obama Doctrine: How the President’s Drone War is backfiring”, Foreign Policy, 2012-02-27: http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/the-obama-doctrine/.
- [11] On the US globalization of war phenomena, see in Michael Chossudovsky, The Globalization of War: America’s ‘Long War’ against Humanity, Montréal, Canada: Center for Research on Globalization, 2015
- [12] Peter R. Baehr, Monique Castermans-Holleman, The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy, Third edition, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 21
- [13] Arie Bloed, Peter van Dijk (eds.), Essays on Human Rights in the Helsinki Process, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985, 34−35
- [14] Peter Hough, Understanding Global Security, 2nd Edition, London−New York: Routledge, 2008, 127
- [15] Hannes Hofbauer, Eksperiment Kosovo: Povratak kolonijalizma, Beograd: Albatros Plus, 2009
- [16] On this issue, see Paul Atwood, War and Empire: The American Way of Life, London: Pluto Press, 2010.
Prof. Dr Vladislav B. Sotirović, www.global-politics.eu/sotirovic, [email protected]. © Vladislav B. Sotirović 2017
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Why was it necessary to fixate on Kissinger and his ethnic background? And the Cold War was not a pretext. A capitalist ideology is what drives the US, and so it is of course, imperialist and fiercely anti-socialist.
Overall, a pretty good article. There are a few minor problems though:
1.) The ideas that the author ascribes to Henry Kissinger (Eurasianism, the “world island,” etc.) weren’t originally Kissinger’s. The first man to come up with these concepts was Sir Halford John Mackinder way back in 1904. Kissinger, like the rest of Washington, just adopted these ideas once the American Empire replaced the British Empire after the war.
2.) I really don’t believe that modern American consumer culture goes all the way back to 1776! I am sure it was more a product of the post-war Keynesian/Fordist boom of the 50s and 60s. People of my grandparent’s generation, who lived through the dustbowl, the depression and the war, tended to have a very different mentality regarding consumption and wastefulness from the generations that came after them.
Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud was the main driving force behind modern day, mass-consumerism. This is an excellent 3-4 part documentary all about consumerism and the manipulation of the masses to engineer consent. Highly recommend!
https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-century-of-the-self/
On the nature of US and American Foreign Policy: violence, and ever more continuing pre-emptive violence.
Do they have a policy, beyond the reactive? They wanted to lock the world into the kleptocratic corporatocracy by the combined means of murderous military might, the “exorbitant privilege” of the petro-dollar, and punitive trade agreements (TTIP, TPP). The world – and in particular the BRICS/SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) – said no. Now what?
I’m pretty sure that US policymakers won’t sit back and watch the slow de-dollarisation of the world market without a fight. After all, US consumers would have to pay full market value for their goods; and that $20 trillion debt won’t be re-financed for virtually free. And that $650bn killing machine??? No wonder Trump wants the other NATO countries to cough up.
Who to fight? There is a growing list, but Russia and Iran have proved worthy enemies; particularly in the proxy asymmetric hybrid warfare the Pentagon favours. Full spectrum dominance only worked on those who can’t or don’t fight back. Usually after NATO has bombed them into submission first. Who has air superiority in Syria?
It is not all about the oil; ‘clean’ natural gas is becoming an increasingly important resource. The US/UK sanctioned Russia to prevent Gazprom saturating the European market with cheap gas. They waged an unsuccessful war in Syria to open up the North Dome/South Pars gasfield; to the benefit of their regional allies, Qatar. They wanted an overseas market for their own shale gas (exported as LNG).
Epic fail! The EU have capitulated over the building of the Nord 2 pipeline. They (principally German industry) need Russian gas more than Russia needs EU custom (the Russians have effectively sanction bust by diversifying into agriculture.) Syria is not going to be a NATO/EU Sunni transit state(lets). But it may be a Russian/Iranian/Qatari(?)/SCO transit hub: providing the EU with two of the worlds biggest gas fields. Which they will pay for in dollars???
Rubles and (gold backed) Reminbi are slowly winning the day. It is a war of sorts; which the US currently don’t know how to win. The NeoCon strategy of divide, conquer and indebt has run its course. Unfortunately, they don’t know how and when to quit. Or join the SCO???
Before US foreign policy became formalised, it first of all had to operate a domestic policy.
One which was utterly racist and supremacist.
One which permitted the mass extermination of 90 per cent of the indigenous population.
A policy similarly reflected and operated by their surrogate zionists in Palestine.
How can the US adopt a critical stance towards mass exterminations when they did it themselves?
That is why they use their veto to shield Israel and all the other tyrannical regimes across the globe.
The US empire was similarly founded on slavery, now replicated in the modern US jail system.
See also:
„One Thing Must be Clear to the World: The US Power Elite Regards the Whole Globe as Their Colony!“: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/one-thing-must-be-clear-to-the-world-the-us-power-elite-regards-the-whole-globe-as-their-colony/
&
„Geo-Politics: The Core of Crisis and Chaos and the Nightmares of the US Power Elite“ https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/geo-politics-the-core-of-crisis-and-chaos-the-nightmares-of-the-us-power-elite/
Regards
American hegemony is in its waning years .All the pompous postulates from the the US and allies is about to end.
It probably will not end without much gnashing of teeth .
This is true, but has anyone any idea what will replace American hegemony. especially if the US feels itself no longer the top of the world economy, turns its back on the world and lives on its own resources and defaults on its dollar debt?
If the foundational template is not addressed then nothing really changes even through the rising of new forms of civilisation.
The power-greed of self-specialness in positively or negatively defined sense of self-separateness operates the identity politic of opposition as freedom. This can be milked or pharmed to some mythic seeming of power in becoming – but at root it is a self-alienation by which All Else is made ‘OTHER” and uses as the basis from which to assert and gratify a false sense of self accepted in deadly serious experience.
The Good News is not dead concepts seeking investment, sacrifice or validation – but a living and integrative consciousness that has been ‘put out’ like Fred Flintstone’s cat – and which we thus fear and expect to be ‘put out’ by – and so seek to manipulate or appease and mask in alignments of form.
The attempt or intent to steal the light intensifies the darkness of a false light. If a tyranny is released from our minds and our world, we will recognise and extend that which fear made sacrifice of – and have compassion for the distortions that fear, shame and pain contorts the love in its thrall.
In the ‘meanwhile’ of neglecting to share life, we persist in thinking and expressing in compliance and conformity to rules we perhaps don’t even know are there – for they are ‘mapped out’ to subconscious survival mechanism.
Fred Flintstone’s “cat” always got back inside the house and locked Fred out, leaving him yelling “Wilma, Wilma!”
Did you really mean to use this as an example of something or another?
Exactly so.
The attempt to exclude and reject IS the suffering of exclusion and rejection.
By your own will is it so. But unrecognizably believed to be at the hand of another.
Jesus also sought to communicate this; ‘as you judge so are ye judged’.
The war-minded or should I say fear-minded, have no ears and eyes for truth – seeking only as a filtered and distorted mind for power and protection under the belief ‘there is no ‘truth’ but power (says so).
Writ large on the world – but also the mind that hates in the other what is denied and rejected in the self.
The call for the Golden Rule is not so that we can all be ‘nice’ to each other – but reflects a core truth that you set the measure of your experience and can ONLY interpret through the ‘meanings’ you assign to others – for these never actually leave your mind to go into others – though of course you have your experience as you asked.
Perhaps few will pause to even consider what I write – but the insanity writ large as our world is a Projection of a fragmented or split mind. Dived and rule (out, love’s presence).
How does one talk down an armed and homicidal madman?
Any way that pauses the dissociated script to allow some relational presence to register.
How to feed the Troll? Allow your mind to be baited into guilt, blame and hate.
It will SEEM that you mitigate your own pain – but at cost of being substituted for by a fake reality.
A fake reality that cannot be challenged without facing the fears that called it forth – for it has all the reality that fear gives it.
Wilma!
But considering will and Ma or mother – I suggest that our true call is not to something we believe we are locked out from – but to the source and truth of our desire – for true will is a gift of discernment and not a mind-substitution of a wish something be true (that isn’t ) – and its corresponding defences against exposure.
I was in total agreement with the author’s thesis until he said “…the terrorist attack of 9/11, that was most probably self-constructed US-Israeli action in which al-Qaeda just played a role of executors in front of the TV cameras.”
I disagree. That particualr attack was “most probably” exactly what it appeared to be. The attack on 9-11 was opportunistically seized upon as a justification for the subsequent US actions in the Middle East but it is pushing things way to far in my view to suggest that the US & the Israelis were behind it and that al-Qaeda were merely their mindless puppets.
There is a need to do much research in geopolitics Brian, and also into the 9/11 incident.
Ignorant? Or, troll? I know it doesn’t even really matter anymore, but sometimes they still do cause me to smile a little, and to take a second to comment
How ironic BRIAN BURGESS that by any standard, other than the US Government sponsored incredibly unscientific report, ” the 9/11 terrorist deadly explosions were probably not what they appeared to be “.
You could believe that, were it not for the fact of the high-fiving Israeli Mossad agents who were caught filming the attack on the World Trade Centre.
After being temporarily detained, they were released and allowed to return to Israel, where they freely admitted on Israeli TV that they were in New York to witness/document/record the attack on the World Trade Centre.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw and many other sources of material.
How could that have been possible unless they already knew the attack was going to happen?
There may well be a lot of mysteries about 9/11, but your video link doesn’t prove or show anything, John. The men on the Israeli talk show may not have known about 9/11 beforehand, but simply went out to observe what was going on when it happened – it was clearly a major event, after all. I’m not saying that was the case, but it is a possible answer to your question.
They were observed filming the event as it happened.
They were there because they knew it was going to happen.
Their New York “employer” fled back to Israel within days.
On the day of the 9-11 attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: “It’s very good…….Well, it’s not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)”. See http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html.
Personally, my belief is that the Israelis may not have carried out the attack but they knew it was going to happen and kept the information to themselves as it suited their interests to do so.
The other alternative – warning the US authorities – would not have garnered Israel anything like the support they received after 9/11.
Ariel Sharon was Prime Minister when 9-11 happened.
Yes – and Sharon is another mass murderer. Look at how many he had killed in Shabra and Shatilla. Look at how many Israelis, Palestinians and others died after he provoked the Second Intifada.
Netanyahu was a member of his party at the time of 9/11 and he expressed the sentiment at the time it was good for Israel.
You can find sources for these facts all across the internet.
Between them, Sharon and Netanyahu are responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews and non-Jews, quite apart from the probably hundreds of thousands of people left permanently traumatised by their actions.
Do you seriously think such mass murderers would hesitate for a moment to either organise, assist or allow something like 9/11?
What would they care about the deaths of a few thousands of US and other citizens in New York, especially as it served their interests?
There is so much evidence pointing the finger at Israel as the main perpetrators of 9/11, it is overwhelming. Take some time to research it. Google “Dancing Israeli’s. That’s a good starting point.
It always comes down to Greed doesn’t it?
Every empire in history had/has Greed at its core.
All genocides and every act of ecocide is driven by Greed.
Greed is the God (Life? Love?) substitute of the world’s oligarchies.
Greed is the unstoppable force that drives the world’s middle class.
Greed is the boot heel on the necks of the underclass and the hundreds of millions of people living in poverty.
Greed will bring the world undone.
How tragic for the fate of the mass of humanity, including the USA masse’s, that uppermost in the USA.s state development has been its unreasonable belief in the righteousness of it’s corporate greed?
Indeed, from its barely developed mineral wealth of its North West Mountains to its incredible violent range of climates from North to South, with inventiveness and technological technology; for it has all the natural and technical resources to become, neither an island under the threat of Sino-Russian forces or have a real need to be dependent upon the middle east and other global regional hydrocarbon reservoirs!
But as the rest of the world becomes more aware of the criminally evil practices of the USA via the post-Caxton phenomena of the internet, perhaps the only hope for the rest of this globe as well as the 99% of the USA, is the immediate opportunity for a violent internal USA post-biblical revolution ??