I
did not read the post referenced below yet, but the title itself, which identifies the
decision to encourage arming Ukraine, makes me just want to puke -
excuse my language. Either Congress is playing politics, depending on
Obama not to heed the resolution's aim, or has now overtly put in
practice the neo-cons' proposition of this being an American century in
which America uses its military might to clear the way for the (no
longer just American but now multinational) centers of economic power to
continue ravaging the world's resources. In the former case, well,
nothing new.
In
the latter case, America is forgetting that there are others in the
world with similar pretensions for the economic throne and that those
others - mostly the BRICKS countries - are not sitting and waiting the
outcome peacefully. Perhaps America is not forgetting, but believes it
will win. Perhaps it will in the short term win, but at what price and
who is paying the price. Not those making the decisions, to be sure.
It
is also unfortunately true that heavy, growing militarization is
providing direct and continuous source for the ballooning
military-industrial complex everywhere for which the bottom layers of
all societies are paying the heaviest price. Shame. But, I do not blame
the Congress for their reactionary politics, I blame the Americans who
quietly eat it all up.
