The Two Faux Democracies Threaten Life On Earth
Paul Craig Roberts
Amitai Etzioni has raised an important question: “Who authorized preparations for war with China?” http://yalejournal.org/2013/06/12/who-authorized-preparations-for-war-with-china/
Etzioni says that the war plan is not the sort of contingency plan
that might be on hand for an improbable event. Etzioni also reports
that the Pentagon’s war plan was not ordered by, and has not been
reviewed by, US civilian authorities. We are confronted with a
neoconized US military out of control endangering Americans and the rest
of the world.
Etzioni is correct that this is a momentous decision made by a
neoconized military. China is obviously aware that Washington is
preparing for war with China. If the Yale Journal knows it, China knows
it. If the Chinese government is realistic, the government is aware that
Washington is planning a pre-emptive nuclear attack against China. No
other kind of war makes any sense from Washington’s standpoint. The
“superpower” was never able to occupy Baghdad, and after 11 years of war
has been defeated in Afghanistan by a few thousand lightly armed
Taliban. It would be curtains for Washington to get into a conventional
war with China.
When China was a primitive third world country, it fought the US
military to a stalemate in Korea. Today China has the world’s second
largest economy and is rapidly overtaking the failing US economy
destroyed by jobs offshoring, bankster fraud, and corporate and
congressional treason.
The Pentagon’s war plan for China is called “AirSea Battle.” The plan
describes itself as “interoperable air and naval forces that can
execute networked, integrated attacks-in-depth to disrupt, destroy, and
defeat enemy anti-access area denial capabilities.”
Yes, what does that mean? It means many billions of dollars of more
profits for the military/security complex while the 99 percent are
ground under the boot. It is also clear that this nonsensical jargon
cannot defeat a Chinese army. But this kind of saber-rattling can lead
to war, and if the Washington morons get a war going, the only way
Washington can prevail is with nuclear weapons. The radiation, of
course, will kill Americans as well.
Nuclear war is on Washington’s agenda. The rise of the Neocon Nazis
has negated the nuclear disarmament agreements that Reagan and Gorbachev
made. The extraordinary, mainly truthful 2012 book, The Untold History
of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, describes the
post-Reagan breakout of preemptive nuclear attack as Washington’s first
option.
During the Cold War nuclear weapons had a defensive purpose. The
purpose was to prevent nuclear war by the US and USSR each having
sufficient retaliatory power to ensure “mutually assured destruction.”
MAD, as it was known, meant that nuclear weapons had no offensive
advantage for either side.
The Soviet collapse and China’s focus on its economy instead of its
military have resulted in Washington’s advantage in nuclear weaponry
that, according to two US Dr. Strangeglove characters, Keir Lieber and
Daryl Press, gives Washington first-strike capability. Lieber and Press
write that the “precipitous decline of Russia’s arsenal, and the glacial
pace of modernization of China’s nuclear forces,” have created a
situation in which neither Russia nor China could retaliate to
Washington’s first strike.
The Pentagon’s “AirSea Battle” and Lieber and Press’ article in
Foreign Affairs have informed China and Russia that Washington is
contemplating pre-emptive nuclear attack on both countries. To ensure
Russia’s inability to retaliate, Washington is placing anti-ballistic
missiles on Russia’s borders in violation of the US-USSR agreement.
Because the American press is a corrupt government propaganda
ministry, the American people have no idea that neoconized Washington is
planning nuclear war. Americans are no more aware of this than they are
of former President Jimmy Carter’s recent statement, reported only in
Germany, that the United States no longer has a functioning democracy.
The possibility that the United States would initiate nuclear war was
given reality eleven years ago when President George W. Bush, at the
urging of Dick Cheney and the neocons that dominated his regime, signed
off on the 2002 Nuclear Posture Review.
This neocon document, signed off on by America’s most moronic
president, resulted in consternation and condemnation from the rest of
the world and launched a new arms race. Russian President Putin
immediately announced that Russia would spend all necessary sums to
maintain Russia’s retaliatory nuclear capability. The Chinese displayed
their prowess by knocking a satellite out of space with a missile. The
mayor of Hiroshima, recipient city of a vast American war crime,
stated: “The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the central international
agreement guiding the elimination of nuclear weapons, is on the verge
of collapse. The chief cause is US nuclear policy that, by openly
declaring the possibility of a pre-emptive nuclear first strike and
calling for resumed research into mini-nukes and other so-called
‘useable nuclear weapons,’ appears to worship nuclear weapons as God.”
Polls from all over the world consistently show that Israel and the
US are regarded as the two greatest threats to peace and to life on
earth. Yet, these two utterly lawless governments prance around
pretending to be the “world’s greatest democracies.” Neither government
accepts any accountability whatsoever to international law, to human
rights, to the Geneva Conventions, or to their own statutory law. The US
and Israel are rogue governments, throwbacks to the Hitler and Stalin
era.
The post World War II wars originate in Washington and Israel. No
other country has imperial expansionary ambitions. The Chinese
government has not seized Taiwan, which China could do at will. The
Russian government has not seized former constituent parts of Russia,
such as Georgia, which, provoked by Washington to launch an attack, was
instantly overwhelmed by the Russian Army. Putin could have hung
Washington’s Georgian puppet and reincorporated Georgia into Russia,
where it resided for several centuries and where many believe it
belongs.
For the past 68 years, most military aggression can be sourced to the
US and Israel. Yet, these two originators of wars pretend to be the
victims of aggression. It is Israel that has a nuclear arsenal that is
illegal, unacknowledged, and unaccountable. It is Washington that has
drafted a war plan based on nuclear first strike. The rest of the world
is correct to view these two rogue unaccountable governments as direct
threats to life on earth.
