The NeoCon Endgame to Control the WorldAn Original Analysis by MadhoosierIt has always been obvious that implementing the NeoCon agenda would bring ruin to the overwhelming majority of people for the benefit of a tiny minority. The policies of the NeoCons are to bring not just the United States but the entire world under their control. The NeoCon bible “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” states that no nation shall be allowed to challenge American hegemony. With Russia’s vast energy resources and China’s rapid economic expansion both are poised to do just that. At the same time the predatory economic policies of the NeoCons have nearly destroyed America’s middle class and their international policies have greatly weakened the United States. Since the domestic policies of the NeoCons were designed to transfer the wealth and power of America’s middle class and working poor to the elite there is little doubt that the premier thinkers among the NeoCons have a domestic endgame strategy. We are now seeing their endgame with America’s trend toward Fascism and in the following article I will expose what I believe is the NeoCon endgame for control of the world.
Real Men Go to TehranThe continuing saber rattling towards Iran and the MSM meme of critical stories toward both Russia and China are in preparation for the main international play in the NeoCon endgame: The NeoCons plan preemptive nuclear attacks on Russia and China’s nuclear arsenals and use nuclear attacks on Iran to secure their oilfields for exploitation by the giant western petroleum corporations.
The lesson the NeoCons learned in Iraq is that when you try to steal the natural wealth of a nation the citizens of that nation get pissed off, even if they were oppressed under the dictatorship that you toppled. Iran, which has a partially elected and reasonably popular government, has no reason to greet American attackers as liberators and after seeing the catastrophic disaster the Americans created in Iraq the people of Iran would no doubt resist an American attack with every possible means, this is one reason why the American attack on Iran will be an attempt at nuclear genocide.
The talk of using “tactical nuclear weapons” and “nuclear bunker busters” is the cover story for this premeditated genocide.
Two facts of geography make a conventional air attack against Iran very difficult, Iran commands the Persian Gulf and Straits of Hormuz with an arsenal of anti-ship missiles, positioning aircraft carrier attack groups in the gulf for an attack on Iran would be criminally negligent because thousands of American sailors would die as their ships were targeted by these missiles. The only military tactic that I’m aware of to defeat these anti-ship missiles would be to carpet nuke an area the size of the state of Illinois along Iran’s gulf shore. This is also another reason for nuclear genocide. (America’s oldest aircraft carrier, the Kitty Hawk, stationed out of Japan, and scheduled to be replaced in 2008, operated in the Bay of Bengal, only a few days’ sail away from Iran, on maneuvers, the first week of September, 2007.)
The second fact is that most of the targets in Iran are over 1,300 miles from where aircraft carriers could launch an attack from the northern Arabian Sea and American pilots would be over enemy territory for nearly 2,000 miles of the round trip. Iran has state of the art Russian anti-aircraft defenses, an attack on Iran using conventional forces and weapons would cost dearly in downed American aircraft, carpet nuking Iran is a means of avoiding these air defenses and is another reason for nuclear genocide.
While much of America’s military is exhausted from repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, America’s arsenal of nuclear tipped ballistic and cruise missiles remains completely intact, an incident on August 30th where six nuclear armed cruise missiles were “accidentally” shipped from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, the Iraq staging base, suggests that America’s nuclear arsenal is being deployed to the Middle East.
As the government of Nuri al Maliki in Iraq disintegrates, leaving a power vacuum, the United States could just ignore Iraq’s prohibition of attacks on Iran from Iraqi air bases, further weakening al Maliki, this would pave the way to install a minority Sunni government aligned with Saudi Arabia and the Sunni states of the gulf region when Iraq’s Shia turn on their American allies after the attack on Iran.
Additionally there are not enough troops to follow up on a conventional attack on Iran, the real reason Bush announced a troop reduction in Iraq is that there aren’t enough troops to maintain the surge there, let alone any for Iran. Because Bush exhausted the conventional Armed Forces in Iraq Bush is forced to use nuclear weapons for an attack on Iran, yet another reason for nuclear genocide in Iran.
The International Politics of Attacking IranTwo of Bush’s closest international allies very much want Bush to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, the Saudi Royals and the Likudniks of Israel. The Saudi Royals fear that since a Sunni dominated Iraq has been destroyed there is nothing to prevent Iran from dominating a Shia crescent that would stretch from Iran to Jordan and would include some of Saudi Arabia’s largest oil fields. The Likudniks have defined Iran as an existential threat to the nation of Israel.
Because the United States has maintained economic sanctions against Iran since the American Embassy hostage crisis of 1979/1980 Iran has became a strong economic ally of both Russia and China, both of which have massive investments in Iran. Russia is building the nuclear power generating plant at Bushehr that is at the center of much of the Iranian nuclear development controversies. China has invested extensively in Iranian energy development and imports a lot of Iranian energy.
The type of attack that has been bandied about in the pro-Bush press, with over two thousand sites targeted for bombing, would destroy much of the economic investments of both Russia and China in Iran. Because of the strong economic relationships between Iran and Russia and China there is a high probability that they would retaliate against an American attack on Iran. Because there is a real danger of retaliation from Russia and China it’s probable that an attack on Iran would be accompanied with a preemptory attack on Russia and China by the United States. In “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” they state that no nations shall be allowed to challenge American hegemony and with Russia’s extensive energy resources and China’s economic expansion both will to do just that if current trends are allowed to continue.
I know that many of you are thinking “What about Mutually Assured Destruction?” or MAD, the doctrine that an attack on any nuclear power would assure that the attacker was also destroyed.
Unfortunately last year the in the NeoCon Council on Foreign Affairs’ magazine “Foreign Affairs” there was an article published that postulated that the era of MAD had ended and that the United States had nearly achieved “Nuclear Primacy” and that an American first strike would destroy nearly all of Russia’s ability to retaliate with a nuclear attack on the U.S.
Here are a couple of the key paragraphs of the article and a link to the article.
Today, for the first time in almost 50 years, the United States stands on the verge of attaining nuclear primacy. It will probably soon be possible for the United States to destroy the long-range nuclear arsenals of Russia or China with a first strike. This dramatic shift in the nuclear balance of power stems from a series of improvements in the United States' nuclear systems, the precipitous decline of Russia's arsenal, and the glacial pace of modernization of China's nuclear forces. Unless Washington's policies change or Moscow and Beijing take steps to increase the size and readiness of their forces, Russia and China -- and the rest of the world -- will live in the shadow of U.S. nuclear primacy for many years to come...
...For 50 years, the Pentagon's war planners have structured the U.S. nuclear arsenal according to the goal of deterring a nuclear attack on the United States and, if necessary, winning a nuclear war by launching a preemptive strike that would destroy an enemy's nuclear forces. For these purposes, the United States relies on a nuclear triad comprising strategic bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and ballistic-missile-launching submarines (known as SSBNs). The triad reduces the odds that an enemy could destroy all U.S. nuclear forces in a single strike, even in a surprise attack, ensuring that the United States would be able to launch a devastating response. Such retaliation would only have to be able to destroy a large enough portion of the attacker's cities and industry to deter an attack in the first place. The same nuclear triad, however, could be used in an offensive attack against an adversary's nuclear forces. Stealth bombers might slip past enemy radar, submarines could fire their missiles from near the enemy's shore and so give the enemy's leaders almost no time to respond, and highly accurate land-based missiles could destroy even hardened silos that have been reinforced against attack and other targets that require a direct hit. The ability to destroy all of an adversary's nuclear forces, eliminating the possibility of a retaliatory strike, is known as a first-strike capability, or nuclear primacy.
Given the repeated times the Bush administration has cherry picked facts and ideas that happen to agree with their policy goals is there any doubt that this article was immediately given the status of gospel handed down from God?
http://tinyurl.com/rq3scThe Domestic Politics of Attacking IranOne of the biggest the influences in American politics is the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee which lobbies Congress and the White House on Israeli political issues. While AIPAC is not a political action committee and doesn’t contribute directly to campaigns they have a heavy influence on campaign contributions, from Wikipedia;
Pro-Israel interests have contributed $56.8 million in individual, group and soft money donations to federal candidates and party committees since 1990, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. ... Between the 2000 and the 2004 elections, the 50 members of AIPAC's board donated an average of $72,000 each to campaigns and political action committees.Politicians that openly speak out against an attack on Iran will face recriminations when trying to raise contributions and will lose votes come Election Day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee One of the biggest voting blocks in American politics is the Christian Fundamentalist voting block. These people have made the “Left Behind” series of novels instant best sellers, my local Wal-Mart piles hundreds of copies by each entrance whenever a new novel in the series is released. Here’s what Jerry Falwell had to say on the “Left Behind” series; "In terms of its impact on Christianity, it's probably greater than that of any other book in modern times, outside the Bible.” In the uberviolent Left Behind series the world is wracked by nuclear war and conflict and many of the followers of this brand of Christianity actually hope for nuclear war as a necessary prerequisite to the second coming of Christ.
The Bush administration has used fear as a potent political tool since the attacks of 9/11 but since they’ve failed to bring Osama bin Laden to justice using the specter of bin Laden to bring fear to the heart of their base also reminds people that the man responsible for the attacks of 9/11 is still free. By raising the specter of an Iranian nuclear bomb the Bush administration creates a new boogie man to bring fear into the hearts of their base.
The Economic Motivations for Attacking Russia, China and IranWhile many of Bush’s supporters favor an attack on Iran for religious reasons there are other reasons an attack on Iran might be advanced by the NeoCons, as I noted at the onset of this article the policies of the NeoCons harm the majority to benefit a tiny minority. Those policies have now come to fruition, with the middle class and working poor now feeling severe economic hardship. Inflation is far worse than the so called “core economic numbers” indicate, prices for food, energy, health care, are skyrocketing while the value of the largest investment of most of the middle class, their home, is disappearing as the housing bubble has burst and housing values are in freefall in many markets. An accurate measure of unemployment would double the rate currently published by the federal government. The transfer of the wealth of the middle class to the elite is a direct result of Neoconservative economic policies but a war with Iran gives the Bush administration a scapegoat for the economic woes of the masses, after an attack on Iran Bush will finally call the financial plight of most Americans “their sacrifice for freedom.”
Yet another reason for the NeoCons to attack Iran is seen in the September 18th tax policy speech by democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama, Obama called for a five hundred dollar tax credit for one hundred and fifty million Americans, noting that income from labor is taxed at nearly twice the rate of income from investments, he then called for tax equality, called for closing corporate tax loop holes, called to end tax shelters, and called for the repeal of the Bush tax cuts to the wealthiest top one percent of Americans. The NeoCons know that should someone like Obama be elected many of the policies to transfer wealth to the elite will be reversed. War with Russia, China and Iran would give President Bush the excuse to declare a National Emergency then implement National Security Presidential Directive 51 which effectively transfers all federal authority to the executive branch of government. Then Bush would attempt to cancel the elections of 2008.
Even in the corporate owned main stream media the “R” word, recession, is gaining traction. Thanks to the economic policies enacted by the NeoCons, and the trade policies enacted before they took power, the economy of the United States is plunging toward a recession or depression. The value of the dollar against the Euro has dropped by nearly half and the supply of dollars has been growing at an unsustainable pace for years. The price of the dollar against the Chinese Yuan is pegged by the government of China at an artificially high rate helping to create the trade imbalance that has allowed China to amass vast quantities of American dollars. (Even though China has allowed the Yuan to devalue nearly 15% against the dollar that rate is still artificially high.) Should China decide to unload these dollars suddenly the value of the dollar would plummet, the price of imported goods like oil would skyrocket sinking the American economy to a deep depression.
Ending trade with China would create jobs in the United States, an attack on Russia would likely take much of the Russian energy off the market, propping up oil company profits even during a world wide recession, and a broad based nuclear attack on Iran would leave their oil fields free for the taking. The western economic model of corporate capitalism would be installed as the only economic model on the planet and the fruits of the bounty of the planet would be concentrated into the hands of the western elite. With America’s military now in control of the resources of the planet the few remaining holdouts, like Chavez in Venezuela, would have no option but to follow the dictates of the United States.
The Implementation of Fascism in the United StatesSince this section of this article could fill volumes I’ll not attempt to cover the many diffrent affronts to the Bill of Rights and the rule of law under the Bush administration, instead I’ll concentrate on the changes in American society that make the implementation of Fascism easier today than in times past.
Right wing talk radio is possibly the most threatening when you consider that the genocide in Rwanda was facilitated through hate speech broadcast on that nation’s radio stations. The listeners to Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right wing radio spectrum add up to forty million listeners that after having listened to their radio heroes deride liberals for more than a decade consider liberals to be anti-Americans, anti-Christian, anti-gun (and therefore powerless), dupes of the liberal media and unworthy of any respect what so ever. I have little doubt that a call to oppose an antiwar protest with violence would turn out a large number of right wing Dittoheads willing and able to carry out acts of violence against liberal protestors.
A second threat to civil society can be found in the explosive growth of the private “Security Industry” that include companies like Blackwater that are very right wing, have heavy political influence, are extremely profitable, and are largely unrestricted by the rules that apply to police. These forces can be brought into an unfamiliar community that they have no emotional connection with like the local police. They are also staffed with people who’ve seen the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan up close and have military backgrounds in addition to their new chosen profession as mercenaries. As former soldiers and mercenaries their inhibitions to kill other humans have been weakened and given their choice to become mercenaries it’s likely that they aren’t defending any lofty ideals beyond their own bank accounts.
A third threat to the rule of law in our communities is the degree that local police departments have been militarized, with the equipment of a SWAT team and that of a rifle company having become virtually identical. In the aftermath of 9/11 local police departments have obtained armored personal carriers, high powered sniper rifles, remote controlled robots, and a host of other high-tech weaponry. A second indication of the transition to a police state can be seen with the roll of policemen becoming administrators of instant punishment in cases like the recent tasering of an overzealous questioner at a John Kerry speech. Just as the military draws an inordinate amount of authoritarian personality types to its ranks so does the police profession. The era of limiting police powers ended with the election of Dick Nixon who started the war on drugs which has caused police powers increase at a steady and alarming rate. After 9/11 policies once thought unthinkable like black bag searches have become standard operating procedure.
Finally nuclear war on the scale needed to destroy Russia and China’s nuclear arsenals would be all of the excuse needed by the regime now occupying the White House to declare a National Emergency and implement National Security Presidential Directive 51 which transfers federal authority to the executive government giving Bush the ability to cancel elections, and crack down ruthlessly on political protest. Corporate owned companies like Blackwater could be employed to break up protests that local police might hesitate to quash because they’d be moving against their friends and neighbors. Right wing talk radio is also available to give marching orders to the dittoheads providing another means to quash dissent and Halliburton has allready built a series of concentration camps that only lack occupants to revive the tactics of Hitler. And there is little doubt that corporate America would back Bush’s declaration of a National Emergency since congress as the only counterbalance against corporate power would cease to exist.
The only possible check against America adopting full fledged Fascism is the courage of the America people to actively protest against an attack on Iran and to demand that the democrats in congress stand up to President Bush.
The prognosis for democracy in America is poor.
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