| MORPHEAL'S COMMENTARY - January 22, 2009 (Society, Economy and Iraq, Viet Nam Proxy Wars) |
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| Robert Morpheal, Bob Ezergailis, Morphealism (morpheal@yahoo.com) |
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MORPHEAL'S COMMENTARY: January 22nd, 2009
(Society, Economy, and Iraq and Viet Nam Proxy Wars)
THE END OF THE GREAT SOCIETY:
We live in societies where organized crime has gained power and
prestige, and where education, honest effort, economic opportunity,
and talented cultural activity are failing, being made to fail, and
are being socially depreciated, even laughed out and down by a new
wave of cynicism. Gangs, the little league of organized crime, accord
status to jailed members, as that becomes a ticket into the big
league. Intoxication is becoming a major social pastime in a society
that enforces boredom and triviality as a means for the promotion of
its worst, but profitable for some, tendencies. Corruption is on the
increase. Statistics are becoming a complete lie. They are as
encouraging of total and utter disbelief, as is most else that is
happening in our societies. If the trend continues our society will
perish, a rotting social corpse, tossed on the garbage heaps of human
history. Its individual cells having long before become disassociative
from the increasingly toxic and corrupt body.
MAKING SOMETHING OF OURSLEVES:
Led to "invest in ourselves" and to "make something" of our lives, by
means of our money, we then find the proverbial rug pulled suddenly
out from under us, midstream, and the raging currents of economic
disaster potentially destroying whatever tough sacrifices and struggle
have striven for. The terror, and frustration, is far more destructive
to our so very limited lifetimes than governments are willing to
acknowledge or act on. They have made many people into powerless
victims, watching their lives more destroyed than ever. So far we see
no reversals of that trend. We see no real improvements. We see a
worsening of the same old circumstance.
DECADES CONSTANT ECONOMIC BELT TIGHTENING LED TO NOW:
Fact is a large percent of workers have been sacrificing benefits, the
having of any paid vacations, any employer pension contributions, and
often some pay (working for less than the average going rate for a
specific job or responsibility level), in order to have jobs, for
decades. It has become a relatively common practice to forego those
"frills", as they are now often called, and not to even think of
asking for any increase, simply to have some work and thus some money.
So we ask where the economy, and employment practices, are really
headed ? Entitlements, even statutory holidays being paid, died for
many, long years ago. So how can we come up with an improvement, along
the present trend to less and less ? Of course outright slavery is
definitely better than instability of unemployment. At least fiscal
needs can be more reliably met that way. At least a slave has the same
job and has a chance of mastery at it, having learned it and being
empowered to do it. Slaves have less to fear, as there are no sudden
layoffs.
Slaves are also better taken care of that workers who are simply
depersonalized cogs in the depersonalized machine where any cog is
deemed to be replacable at any time. What a slave has is at least
somewhat safer from being taken away from the slave, whereas a worker
can lose everything given a final chit.
GUANTANAMO BAY DIFFERS FROM TORQUEMADA:
Guantanamo Bay and descriptions of its barbaric and primitive methods
show an unnecessary intelligence illusion and travesty of justice. Due
to that it is likely any unprejudiced civil court, working within the
American constitutional civilian jusice system, appraised fully enough
of the true facts, would grant not only discharge and clemency to all
victims, but would demand restitution to them for having been
meaninglessly and unnecessarily tortured. Its methods do not and
cannot reform political prisoners, but it can (seemingly deliberately)
turn at least some of those torturned prisoners into hardened
terrorists fully converted to gaining violent revenge. The most famous
political inquisitor, Torquemada, knew the difference. He always
killed those he tortured, almost without exception.
US INITIAL INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ AND VIET NAM - PROXY WARS:
Continued United States military involvement in Iraq stopped making
any real strategic sense a long time ago. What many experts are
reluctant to say, as they are still reluctant to say about Viet Nam,
is that those are Cold War legacies. Iraq was an unfortunate pawn in a
larger Cold War game, with all the deadly consequences that that game
brought time and again to world that hardly understood anything at all
about what was happening to it.
When Desert Storm happened in Iraq there were more than 700 Soviet
military advisors in Baghdad. The armor that Apache helicopters
routinely destroyed was among the best Soviet armor available. That
demonstration of military superiority led to the scrapping of a
massive stockpile of Soviet armor poised against Europe, as being
obsolete scrap metal. Not much point fighting an armored war, using
tanks, when one rocket can penetrate its armor and can pop the turret
killing everyone inside.
The initial Iraq conflict also rendered numerous other modern, non
American, military weapons and technologies essentially obsolete and
ineffective against the power of the United States.
was not a war between North a nd South Viet Nam. It was a war between
States of America. The toll of that war, on both sides, remains
largely shrouded in secrecy. It was a war of such extremes that
General Alexander Hague, is reputed to have been the only general to
ever have had battlefield nuclear weapons at his own discretionary
command. The prevalent theory is that they were there for use if the
Chinese military swarmed across the Viet Nam border.
A fully reliable source, then on the ground working covertly for the
United States military, in the Laos Cambodia area, has conveyed that
orders, immediately subsequent to confirmation on the ground of the
existence of Soviet manned, state of the art, Soviet built, radar
Soviet installations that were bombed.
It was a war where they could not build enough naval torpedoes,
missiles or trucks, fast enough, to ship over for use against the
enemy. There were assembly plants working in Canada who could not keep
up with the demand that exceeded the United States capacity to supply.
It was a big war, not a little war. It was a war against communism,
but it was not a war of South Viet Nam against North Viet Nam. It was,
the United States of America. Viet Nam was the unfortunate victim of
that Cold War conflict. It suffered the limited confrontation, and the
limited resulting apocalypse, while the super powers tested their
weapons and military might and resolve.
Might we add that Jugoslavia was punished, ending broken into pieces,
for its unfortunate role of middle man in the persistent transferring
of military technologies from the western world to the east. Its
supply of armament know how to the USSR, primarily from its European
When we put the Cold War behind us, seeking the advancement of the
human condition, we must end the victimizing of unfortunate nations
who end up caught up in the middle of larger conflicts. These victim
pawns have suffered greater tragedies than the puppet master
superpowers who have manipulated their strings into battles that could
have been averted by more genuine diplomacy. The Cold War gave
diplomacy a very bad reputation. It was east - west diplomacy and that
meant a continuation of the Cold War stalemated standoff. The playing
pieces, other lesser nations and their peoples, scattered across the
world map, ended up suffering the disagreements and demonstrating the
brutal effects of such deep disagreements and anger.
Iraq, despite continued political difficulties and turbulence, beyond
the initial military engagement, in response to its threats against
Israel and its military assault upon Kuwait, is a victim of superpower
manipulation.
It is long past any reasonable time to withdraw American forces from
Iraq.
They have long since stopped serving any valid or real strategic
purpose there.
It is time to withdraw those forces, completely, by the summer of
2009. This summer the
British plan to leave Iraq, and the United States should do the same,
at the same time. I have
suggested in a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations
that the United Nations ask the United States military to leave Iraq
before September of 2009. Remaining even one month
longer can only worsen the long term political situation. Leaving
sooner would help to remedy the damage already done.
troubles, its major conflicts, and their damage to the people affected
by those conflicts. We must begin to realize the role of proxy wars,
and the way lesser nations have been used and abused, so brutally and
unjustly, manipulated by superpowers. We must begin to blow the
whistle when a superpower begins to use another country, another
people, as a pawn in its violent, destructive, and essentially
primitively uncivilized political game.
Robert Morpheal
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