Blowback

I have a number of essays perculating in my head tonight, most of which I hope will surface in the upcoming week. Some deal specifically with American politics. Others are aimed at providing a 'support structure' by which you might better understand my approach to American politics. Perhaps we might distinguish between 'manifest' and 'latent' political essays.

My manifest political essays will deal mainly with Republican, Washington, American, Wall Street, Iraq, and Captalist forensics. I have a certain fascination with the CIA concept of 'blowback' that I have to indulge in, obsess with, twist and turn it until it hurts, cut it out with a scalpal, because I know it is important, and pathological, an unseen cancer or toxic poison growing in the heart of the American Government and the heart of the American people -- it is actually tied up with the American Government 'cheating' on the American people, being dishonest with them, covert about their true intentions, their true activities, what they are doing on distant shores, who they are giving money to and who they are not, who they are giving military arms to, and who they are not -- these kinds of ideas I am pretty darn sure are all tied up to the concept of 'blowback'.

Let no stone be left unturned in your quest for knowledge,
Your demand for truth,
Beware of some people's narcissistic, ulterior motives,
The ones that are not talked about in public,
But that are discussed behind closed doors,
Secret rooms and meeting places,
And then acted upon in private,
You and me won't tell them,
It's very much like 'cheating' on your wife or girlfriend,
Your husband or boyfriend,

One can distinguish between two different 'phases' and/or 'degrees' of 'blowback':
1. 'Tell-tale, warning-sign blowback'; and
2. Collosal, devastating blowback'.

It is easy to call someone 'evil',
But 'evil victimizers' were usually 'victims of evil' first,
Psychoanalysis calls it 'Identification With The Aggressor (The Victimizer),
The logic goes something like this,
'It's better to victimize than to be victimized',
'It's better to be powerful than to be powerless',
The dark side of Nietzsche's 'Will to Power',
From self-empowerment to power over people,
From Democracy to Dictatorship or Unilateralism,
From 'Dialectic-Democracy' back to 'The Master-Slave Relationship',

Calling people 'evil' or 'terrorists' or 'insurgents', or 'extremists',
Eliminates the need to talk about 'blowback',
The American People need to understand blowback,
And what their government is hiding from them,
Democracy -- dialectic-democracy -- between the American Goverment,
And the Amercan People,
Requires Transparency,
Dialectic-Democracy Requires Dialectical Transparency,
Where undemocratic -- collosal -- decisions are not made behind closed doors,
Out of the sight and the ear of the American People,
Military Interventionism into other countries wars,
Where America is not The Peace-Maker,
But the one-sided Military Supplier,
That exasperates already existing wars,
Favoring one nation, while ganging up on the other,
Like a parent that always pampers one child,
While neglecting the other,
This foreign policy tactic needs to be fully and openly discussed,
Debated for its merits -- and potential for pitfalls,
Potential for blowback.
Tell-tale, warning side, blowback,
And then collosal blowback.
9/11.
It is easy to say Bin Laden is evil...
And he is evil,
Bush should never have taken his eye off of Bin Laden,
International law needs to be 'tight' -- and 'right';
Not something that is a 'loose cannon' -- a 'bull in a China Shop' -- and 'wrong'.

Sadaam Hussein didn't 'cause' 9/11.
Iraq didn't 'cause' 9/11.
International law is not something
To be treated by the standard of 'might is right',
International law is not something
For the most powerful to exploit -- on a whim or an impulse,
It's our way or the highway,
'Coalition of the Willing'...
And the rest of you be damned...

International law needs to be 'tight' -- and 'right',
Not invading Iraq
When Bin Laden and the Taliban...
Are in Afghanastan.
Make that 'were' in Afghanastan,
Now in Pakistan.
As U.S. helicopters just today invade Syria.
'Oops, looks like we missed again,
We thought we were still in Iraq,
Or does Bush simply not respect borders...

What is Bush doing now?
From invading Iraq, to invading Pakistan,
And now invading Syria,
When Bin Laden is in Pakistan,

American troops are not respecting borders.
Is there no end to this madness?
Bush is all across the board,
All across the Middle East,
With no focus or international sanity,

All across the board,
Much like McCain's campaign,
Except there are real guns,
And real bombs,
And real missiles,
Going off in different Middle East countries,
With absolutely no international sanction,

The United Nations,
Dismissed on the Unilateral Whim,
Of One Man's Misjudgment,
Or make that the Unilateral Whim,
Of a whole White House gone awry,
A whole Senate gone awry,
Some Covert Philosophical Think Tank's
Thinking Gone Awry,

Bush is now invading Syria,
To get the man,
He should have got in Afghanastan
And who is now in Pakistan,
Before he took his eye off the ball,
And exploited international law,
Exploited International justice.

Iraq was a war crime,
Iraq still is a war crime.
America shouldn't have gone there,
America shouldn't be there.

If Bin Laden didn't go there,
America should never have ever chased him,
Into a country where he wasn't -- there.

America should never have left Afghanastan.
Never left Bin Laden,
Three quarters of the American army,
Disappearing into the Afghanastan dust,
To fight what should be deemed,
An internationally illegal war,
On another distant shore,
Iraq!
And now Syria!
Dr. Strangelove reincarnated!

Take that one to The Supreme Court of America,
And see how far it flies,
Oh, President Bush...
Did you get a 'warrent' to invade Iraq?
How did your logic go again?
Bin Laden, Al Queda, and The Taliban,
All conspired to 'cause' 9/11.
They all live in Afghanastan.
Or at least they all lived in Afghanastan.
Until you chased them into the mountains of Pakistan.

Anybody hear of the word 'containment'?
The most powerful army in the world,
And you couldn't contain Bin Laden?
The mountains of Afghanastan were too intimdating,
To catch the man you were looking for,
You couldn't catch the man who masterminded 9/11,
So you left and chased another man who didn't cause 9/11?
I guess it's easier to catch a man in the deserts of Iraq,
Than it is to catch a man,
In the mountains of Afghanastan.
And now Pakistan.

How did one man ever get so much power?
To just invade new countries at the drop of a hat,
Isn't that how World War ll started?

Creating new wars,
And of course, once we've started a new war,
We will 'stimulate' all sorts of new 'enemies'...
And 'insurgents'...
And 'terrorists'...
To justify the 'new' war.

I call it blowback.
All those innocent American soldiers...
Dead...
All those innocent Iraq civilians...
Dead...
All those mothers and children...
Children who never even had time to lose their innocence...
Dead...

And we won't even talk about the effect of the Iraq war...
On the American economy...
America's enemies are learning how to defeat them?
Just drag them into a long, drawn out war...
Until their economy collapses.

The war that nobody wants to pay for...
The Republican Party wants to have their cake,
And eat it too...
Spend 10 to 20 billion dollars each month in Iraq...
And not raise American taxes...
Who's paying the bill?
Our grandchildren?
And our grandchildren's children?
Assuming the world still exists then...
Who's paying the bill?
Not the Republican Party...
Not the American People...
Just add it to the National Debt.

The Repubican Party says they are going to cut spending...
How about cutting spending in Iraq?
The American People could have had,
All their health care expenses,
Paid for by the American Government...
No, but that would be 'Socialist'...

The American Republican Party has no trouble,
Being Imperialist,
No trouble killing innocent citizens abroad,
No problem raising the death toll of American soldiers,
No trouble raising the national debt load,
No trouble feeding the American...
Military-Industrial Complex,
But they don't want to raise taxes,
Because that kills Republican votes,
They want to spend,
10-20 billion dollars a month in Iraq,
And pretend that nobody has to pay for it,
Just 'Charge it, Please!,
To The American Republican Credit Card,
Or make that The Credit Card of The American People,
Just call it our 'legacy' to the American people,
After we leave...

But don't talk about 'universalizing' subsidized health care,
Cause that would make us look 'Socialist',
That would save lives, and save American misery,
But it's not the 'Republican' thing to do,
We would sooner spend our money in Iraq...

The American Republican Party,
Would sooner spend 10-20 billion dollars,
A month in Iraq...
And call it 'National Security'.
Who created the 'National Insecurity'?
That's like a computer company...
Putting a Trojan Virus into your computer...
And holding a monopoly on the rights,
To the next computer you buy,
They call that sort of stuff,
'Planned Obsolecence'...
This is more like...
'Planned Military Justification'.

For what?
Destroying Sadaam Hussein,
For the man who didn't cause 9/11.
For the man who was supposed to have...
All these 'ready-to-use weapons of mass destruction'...
That never turned out to exist.
What do you call that?
A 'mistake'?

That's a pretty collosal mistake.
That's a lot of blowback.

That's more collosal blowback
Than I hope I will see in the rest of my life.

But somebody's gotta wake up.

Somebody's gotta say 'the king has no clothes on.'

Sadaam Hussein is dead,
But the American Military-Industrial Complex...
Is still rolling on.

Bin Laden is still alive,
One has to start thinking,
If one hasn't already concluded it,
Long before now,
That The American Republican Party,
Wants to keep Bin Laden alive,
Something or someone,
Has to justify...
The American-Military Complex...
Still rolling on...

The Republican Party wants to,
Keep calling it -- 'National Security'...

I call it 'Planned National Insecurity'...

And 'Blowback'.

(For those of you who haven't seen the movie, 'Why We Fight?', I strongly recommend watching it. And then tell me who is talking 'straight'.)

-- dgb, October 25th-26th, modified Sunday afternoon, October 26th, 2008.