The Nightmare: The Iraq Invasion’s Atrocities, Unearthing the Unthinkable
Felicity Arbuthnot

http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m70592&hd=&size=1&l=e

“That need not be bad news, if we can collectively tell the truth about our own greed and violence, and begin to shape a new vision of the good life and a new strategy for living as one nation in the world, not the nation on top of the world.”

Who is “we”? What truth are “we” going to tell? Who is going to listen? Who is going to shape that vision? Some Disciplined Minds chatting over coffee in the faculty lounge? Haven’t reformers and activists, anarchists and unionists, been crying for at least two centuries about the pure evil of “our” own greed and violence? Jensen’s lines are bromides all, and not particularly eloquent ones at that. Jensen, consciously or not is blaming the victim for the oppressor’s crimes:

I never bombed Pakistan. I never voted for these warmongering whores. I don’t support the two party dictatorship, nobody else should either. It’s not “my” greed and violence – it’s theirs. It’s not my “new vision of a good life” that will be enacted, it is theirs. That is a classic psychopathic manipulation point, attributing the crimes of an individual collectively, even if it was only the individual who enjoyed and profited from them.

More to the point: Talking about the Empire without talking about either geopolitics or again talking about the global ‘superclass,’ as described in Rothkopf’s book of the same name, that group of transnational corporate criminals who owe no allegiance to anything but their own wealth and power, is unsustainable thinking, to coin a phrase. It is irrelevant what I think, or Professor Bromide thinks, or anyone here commenting thinks. We live under an oligarchical corporate dictatorship. We aren’t paid to think about that.

The Well-Meaning Professor continues: “But these policies, which have never been morally acceptable, also aren’t sustainable.”

Nonsense. The policies are sustainable if you have no morality. And the psychopathic ruling elites have shown again and again that they have none. The death of millions means nothing to them, provided they can protect and sustain their stolen fortunes. How will the death of billions differ?

They can sustain their way of life indefinitely, provided 90% to 95% of the population – whom they consider animals anyway – are killed off.

Until and unless you understand — really think about it and put it in your heart — that the enemy has the amorality of a serial killer and the arsenal of a superpower, you will forever be surprised and flabbergasted by the sheer audacity of their evil striving, forever on the defensive, forever confused, forever afraid, forever saying well-meaning words that do nothing but distract and dissuade from the beating heart of evil at the core of the would-be world regime.