Sanctions, Wars, and Assassinations | Global Research
Sanctions, Wars, and Assassinations | Global Research
“Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule/ Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!”—Pope
The American government likes to call itself “the leader of the free
world.” Why anyone believes it is difficult to discern. The people are
not obviously freer than people in most other nations. Ask any American
what he is free to do that a citizen of The Netherlands cannot and
listen for a meaningful reply. America has a large economy when measured
by its GDP, but it is, after all, a huge country. Only Russia and
Canada are larger but their populations are much smaller. And America is
not especially well governed. While a minute number of its citizens are
obscenely wealthy; many others barely eke out subsistence livings. The
nation as a whole is fairly prosperous while a huge number of its people
are impoverished. Its military might is huge; its victories meager.
Henry Kissinger has said, “In my life, I have seen four wars begun with
great enthusiasm and public support, all of which we did not know how to
end and from three of which we withdrew unilaterally.” Wars are not won
or lost anymore, they, like old soldiers, just fade away. Umair Haque,
Director of Havas Media Labs and ranked as one of the world’s most
influential management thinkers by Thinkers50 has written in the Harvard
Business Review the following description of today’s America:
“The US is a rich country that’s
beginning to resemble, for the average person, a poor one. Its
infrastructure is crumbling. Its educational systems barely educate. Its
healthcare is still nearly nonexistent. I can take a high-speed train
across Europe in eight hours; I can barely get from DC to Boston in
nine. Most troubling of all, it is poisoning its food and water supplies
by continuing to pursue dirty energy, while the rest of the rich world
is choosing renewable energy. The US has glaring deficits in all these
public goods–education, healthcare, transport, energy,
infrastructure–not to mention the other oft- unmentioned, but equally
important ones: parks, community centers, social services.”
So while claiming to be the free world’s leader, while trying to
teach the world how to rule, when it looks into itself, which it rarely
does, it sees the consummate fool.
