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DaddySatyr -> Anti-Colonialism & The Obama Psyche (8/25/2012 3:53:06 PM)
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For a long time, now and many times on these very boards I have accused the US of engaging in "Empire Building". I believe we can see evidence of it, just about everywhere; the Middle East, Central and South America, the near and far East. It's not a theory (in my mind). It's a doctrine.
Of course, there are always cries of: "We have interests in that part of the world" or "They deserve democracy".
While I may believe that everyone deserves democracy, I have never believed that it is our job to bring it to them. It is their job to demand it from their leaders. Arguably, there may be times when true revolution demands that we help a down-trodden people to acquire what we are able to offer but those instances almost never happen.
Where were the protests, after we removed Saddam, calling for democracy. I seem to recall that there were a few people in that vein but the majority seemed to be shouting for Muslim Theocracy. We didn't need to extend our stay in Iraq past the capture of Saddam because "they deserved a democracy". That's a bullshit excuse. They deserved our help in getting them back on their feet under any form of government they chose, as a people. That's it.
Because we have been so busy, protecting our interests and spreading democracy (almost like a farmer spreads manure), we have been engaging in what I call "Empire building" but, I forgot that the rest of the world calls it something else ... Colonialism.
We all know that this country started as a group of colonies and, eventually, we threw off the yoke of our oppressors. It's funny how things have changed and we are, now the new British Empire.
I always knew that my ideals and Barack Obama's ideals were polar opposites and while his political ideology fits right in with four out of four of the planks of socialism. The error of my ways is that I never understood why. I always assumed that he was a history-less (is that even a fucking word?) construct of the DNC - made so so that no one could attack his past. I blew it.
I just came home from seeing "Obama's America 2016" and D'Souza really presented some excellent evidence as to the formulation of Barry's socialism. He's not so much a socialist in his methods as he is in his outcomes. He's an Anti-Colonialist. This is the answer; the missing key part of the behavior of an Anti-American president. Of course, he's Anti-American. It was how he was raised and it was the fight left unfinished by his father who he never really knew.
A father who was praised by his mother that was absent and therefore could not exhibit those behaviors that made him a regular human being. He liked to take a little nip, now and then, according to friends of his in his home village and in Nairobi. There's nothing wrong with that, of course, unless it leads to other things. There's a belief amongst his friends that alcohol may have been involved in his fatal car crash. There were hushed rumors of what we would call spousal abuse but what other cultures seem to take pretty much in stride.
As a polyamorist, I have no issue with polygamy but I do have an issue with a man that travels to the other side of the globe and engages in it without either lady to whom he's married knowing that she is party to a deception of his construct.
Obama Sr. was an Anti-Colonialist and as one of his best friends describes him a "leftist". Neither is a damning accusation when you consider being called a leftist in a society where public thought is somewhere just slightly right of the Kaiser. But, what is more important is how one wishes to disencumber themselves from that Empire which casts such a large shadow.
In the case of the US, we wrote an elaborate document, complete with calligraphy and in very formal and polite language, inviting King George III to kiss our collective arse. We said, essentially: "We are not yours, anymore" and with the help of some German soldiers and the French navy, we defended ourselves from the military fall-out of that declaration.
When we had defeated the British, we didn't cross the Atlantic and try to convert them to our way of thinking. We said: "So long, suckers!" and went on about our business.
That is not how Obama Sr. and now, his son - by virtue of vowing to finish the fight his father started - look at Anti-Colonialism. To them imperialistic rulers must be toppled and made to taste the bitter liquid that is the ale of defeat. Oppressors must not just be thrown off; they must be erradicated. They must be terminated (Sounds a little bit like our foreign policy over the last 50 years or so. No?).
So now, little Barry is faced with the choice of raising an Army in a foreign nation or doing what any smart warrior would choose to do with the options open to him. If you don't like something, don't stand on the outside and peg rocks at it. Change it!
I have frequently said that if the NRA has 2 million members and all the anti-gun crowd would band together, join the NRA, bring 3 million anti-gun people to the next steering committee meeting and call a vote, that they would absolutely get their way.
That is what barack Obama is doing. That his methods resemble socialism is almost undeniable. That he continually fails to strengthen our country with his policies but, somehow manages to strengthen others is also a pretty solid fact (No off-shoot pipeline out of Canadia for us but, money to beef up drilling for other countries).
I now believe that we are engaged in a civil war; a truly civil war where no shots have been fired. A war that has not seen bullet-riddled bodies left in its wake but bodies of the sick, poor, and slowly dying.
"... testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure" indeed!
Peace and comfort,
Michael
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