GREAT PIECE…

Heavily armed malcontents with nothing better to do, a later day wild wild west.

Modern day pirates, factions armed by the U.S. and NATO spreading fear, death and anarchy which the victims will beg intervention by those who created this mess.

balkas:

Hmmmm.  Americans is the wrong term.  Everyone in thsi hemisphere is American.

But USites since I’ve been on the planet—and that’s nearly 70 years have mostly been dumb and uncaring (empathic ealls thicker than the Great Wall of China).  Recently they became really fat and frightened.  I think both were consequences of US government dictates—along with their stupefication from both legal and illegal drugs.

There are so many markers in this tale of radical imperial failure, it is difficult to find one that stands out.

For one example, “When you chased Qaddafi out in that barbaric fashion, you created 10 more Qaddafis. The whole Saharo-Sahelian region has become unlivable.”

That refrain has been repeated since Andrew Jackson decided to create war and destruction on all the native tribes in the US controlled areas of North America.

It has been repeated in Latin America since James Monroe decided (and no one else questioned) that Latin America was part of the US hegemonic area.  Meaning, we’re an empire, and that’s part of our colonies.

We have repeated the radical imperial failures with dramatically increasing consistency since Truman usurped the power to declare war from Congress, and Congress capitulated without a whimper, sending troops into Korea, a war that has lasted more than sixty years, with no resolution even on anyone’s drawing board.

The empire will continue to destroy the USA from the inside and from the top down.  There is no way anyone can imagine to reverse this rot while continuing to vote for either the democratic or republican national parties or any of their candidates.

We have plenty of options, though time is running out.  We either build viable political alliances from the bottom up, from local neighborhoods and communities outward, or our children and grandchildren become the colonized of some as yet not clearly identifiable imperialists who will replace our rotten to the core banker-muppets and their bipartisan puppets in DC.

there is an enormous diff between saying “tuaregs
are professional thieves” and saying that some or
most of them BECAME thieves.
or even that americans are fat, dumb, uncaring,
frightened, stupefied and saying that they BECAME
so.