Pelican Parts Forums - 'National security strategy' is crazed nonsense

The continued propaganda war to drum up support for a pre-emptive strike against Iran is an additional example of a failed presidency seeking to take a path of self agrandizement at the expense of sovereign nations and their peoples. It's a classic bully-boy tactic, I can beat you up because I'm bigger and stronger than you are, and my momma says I'm a good boy.

The Bush'ists strategy is putrid as is their leader.

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American Megalomania
Our 'national security strategy' is crazed nonsense
by Justin Raimondo

The rituals of Empire have their own meaning and structure, and, as we morph from a republic to an imperial hegemon, these are becoming more formalized. Note the proliferation of grandiosely named agencies and other offices, staffed by a multitude of officials with sonorously self-important titles. For example, how many people know that a "Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor" has been created within the State Department, charged with "promoting freedom and democracy and protecting human rights around the world," because, after all, this ideological mumbo-jumbo is "central to U.S. foreign policy"? As Pat Nixon's plain Republican cloth coat gives way to the imperial purple, a rococo extravagance replaces the unpretentious modesty of the Old Republic as the Washington style.

Another mark of Empire is the codification of its rituals in our laws, and that has given the Boy Emperor a pretext for yet another provocation, this one presumably aimed at Iran, in the form of a new "national security strategy" that reiterates an old Bushian trope: the necessity and morality of preemptive war. Every year, the national security bureaucracy is legally charged with issuing such a document, and, although this has been ignored for the past two years or so, suddenly the Bushies have remembered their legal responsibilities. In the process of slapping it together, however, the State Department's wordsmiths appear to have plagiarized George W. Bush. Or, at least, his speechwriters, who can fairly claim credit for the opening line:

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"It is the policy of the United States to seek and support democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. In the world today, the fundamental character of regimes matters as much as the distribution of power among them. The goal of our statecraft is to help create a world of democratic, well-governed states that can meet the needs of their citizens and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system. This is the best way to provide enduring security for the American people."

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This last philosophical point is classic Trotskyite sociofascism, spreading of political ideology through warfare is not the way of a free people, it is the method used by tyrants throughout history.