EXCERPT: Downward historical-structural trajectories reveal themselves by a nation’s absence of will for anything but war, intervention, the disproportionate emphasis on & allocation for military spending, invariably @ the expense of its people’s needs & the social good. Militarism is seen, much as Viagra for the 50+ male, as the source of vigor, the means of heading off aging, in this case of a nation as it wallows in its own psychopathological emphasis on strength, virility, or speaking practically in international terms, global domination. Keeping to old ways, the recapitulation of steps taken in the past, from shock-&-awe bombing campaigns to covert actions aimed @ regime change, from fine tuning tactics like drone assassination to revising grand strategies like the shift in focus from Europe to the Pacific, signifies more than a repetition-compulsion, a massive reactive formation: it signifies an inability to adjust to realities, here, on the world scene, & consequently, an urge to plunge head down dead ahead in order to stop history in its tracks & confirm a permanent hegemonic status no longer to be. The more fearful, the more belligerent, & add to that, the more ambitious, which translates into the constant mobilization of increased force. Voila, Obama’s Pacific-first strategy aimed @ ultimate confrontation w/ China.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:24:37 +0000
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