http://www.mikemalloy.comHow many places on earth are left where George W. Bush can visit without causing anti-American riots and explosive violence? Certainly no place in South America. That was made abundantly clear during the last pretend hemispheric economic summit. Central America? Nope.
The memories of US aggression and death squads in the 1980s, slaughter overseen by John Negroponte, our new National Intelligence (read: SS) Chief, are still too fresh in the memories of Hondurans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans. The Great White North? Paul Martin is the PM of Canada and is, (ahem) a Liberal. Capitol L. You know: Medical care for everyone, state-guaranteed gay rights, etc. The Middle East? His next trip there may well ignite World War III. Europe? Off the list completely.
When Bush does visit the Continent the host country has to accept Bush arriving with scores of sunglasses-clad security thugs storming through the hotels and gift shops with fully automatic assault rifles, accompanied by thousands of combat-ready soldiers and marines, aircraft, ships and more firepower than was used during the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The Pacific? While he may have a semi soul brother in Australia's PM, John Howard, the Aussies see Bush for what he is: A phony; a braggart; a coward. New Zealand? Uh-uh. No way. Too many Kiwis are convinced Bush possesses The Ring.
So . . . other than a few former Soviet states -- now darkened, locked-down dictatorships that are willing to provide Bush with his offshore torture chambers -- what does that leave? Yeah. China. So, there he goes today. To the land of the Rising Sun and the massacre in Tienamen Square. Yes, yes, yes, there are side trips to Japan (yawn), South Korea and Mongolia planned, but they are momentary diversions, attempts to fool the press and the morons back home. China is all that matters. It has become Bush's crazed concept of Shangri-La. If only he and his Crime Family could operate the US the way the Great Leaders operate China, Bush would, finally, be happy, no, giddy. No more listening to dissenting voices in that pesky Senate. No more nonsense from the clowns and religious nut-cases in the House. Just rule by fiat. War? You got it. Economic policy that enhances the wealthy and greases the paths of the corporations? Done deal. Huge, insurmountable divides between workers and the ruling class? That's God's way. In other words, Bush going to China is like a kid going to Disney World. Except . . . China now owns the US. The amount of the IOUs China has accumulated on Bush's watch is staggering.
If the Chinese ever call the notes in, the US will see an economic collapse that will make the Great Depression seem like full employment. So, off he goes. Our toy president. In over his head yet again. What sort of political gaffes -- and how many -- will he make on this trip? How quickly will it take the Chinese rulers to realize, lest they forgot, that the country that is their chief rival for global economic and military dominance in the immediate future is lead by a twitchy, gibbering moron? Will he cause the North Koreans to sink even further into their state-sponsored schizophrenia, to the point they launch their handful of nuke-tipped missiles and obliterate Taiwan? Will the Japanese use the occasion of his visit to be reminded why they at one time so fervently subscribed to Fascism?
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