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Hermit's Brief but Ultimate Rebuttal to USA "Anti-Terrorist Strategies"
« on: 2008-03-03 14:31:06 » |
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If you have potential enemies who are competent to attack you, who you wish to deter, you have a continuum of responses, ranging from "make them love you", up to and including "make them fear you". For its entire existence, but particularly today, the strategy of the USA appears to have been oriented solely towards "if you cannot kill them, make them fear you." This has resulted in: ever escalating costs for residents of the USA and in the numbers of people interested in reciprocating the terror inducing actions of the USA; decreasing quality of life for the residents of the USA as well as for the subjects of the USA's fear creating activities; and in an increasing denial, real and perceived, for the residents of the USA and the targets of this policy, for avenues other than "reciprocal terrorism" in attempting to affect change in those engaged in fear induction, implicitly by changing the cost of consequences to fear spreading strategies.
Is it too late to suggest that the entire "make them fear you strategy" has been a costly catastrophe for everyone involved? Apparently so, as the same yammer-headed idiots who advocate fear spreading activities are now apparently purporting to have discovered that their potential enemies have decided that a glorious "death" is preferable to "life" under unipolar USA imposed and supported misery; and "in consequence", the leaders of the USA are now encouraged to seek new strategies to increase the audience and extent for their projection of fear. The absolute lack of logic and clear absence of the capacity to adapt to the environment demonstrated in that, when confronted with proof that their paradoxical investment in spreading a "culture of death" assertedly because they "love life," has failed utterly, has lead to them calling for more of the same, is beyond peculiarly stupid. Indeed, it would be bizarrely hilarious if it were not merely tragic.
But to be electable in the USA apparently means being prepared to accelerate this process of escalating terror, leading to increased numbers of more determined enemies, leading in turn to calls to "crank the fear higher", meaning that no change in course is possible without a collapse of the current system. The optimist might hope that evolution will rapidly wipe out such dinosaurs. The collapse of stability in international financial and security structures might lead to a pessimist observing that this seems to be happening already. The realist in me has to point out that it seems that the death throes of the dinosaurs are more likely than not to eliminate all of us, and I wonder if there are no alternative options available. Being a realist, I recognize that the vast mass of residents of the USA share the same genes, if not the same delusions, and apparently prefer the status quo to prevention of the inevitable, and thus it seems we might deserve, as well as are doomed to, the same miserable fate.
Pardon me if I think it a pity.
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