Will American Insouciance Destroy the World?

By Paul Craig Roberts

13/08/08 "ICH" --- - The neoconned Bush Regime and the Israeli-occupied
American media http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=13288 are
heading the innocent world toward nuclear war.

Back in the Reagan years, the National Endowment for Democracy was created
as a cold war tool. Today the NED is a neocon-controlled agent for US world
hegemony. Its main function is to pour US money and election-rigging into
former constituent parts of the Soviet Union in order to ring Russia with
American puppet states.

The neoconservative Bush Regime used the NED to intervene in Ukrainian and
Georgian internal affairs in keeping with the neoconservative plan to
establish US-friendly and Russia-hostile political regimes in these two
former constituent parts of Russia and the Soviet Union.

The NED was also used to dismember the former Yugoslavia with its
interventions in Slovakia, Serbia, and Montenegro.

According to Wikipedia, Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation
establishing NED, told the Washington Post in 1991 that much of what the NED
does "today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."

The Bush Regime, having established a puppet, Mikhail Saakashvili, as
president of Georgia, tried to bring Georgia into NATO.

[For readers too young to know, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a
military alliance between the US and Western European countries to resist
any Soviet move into Western Europe. There has been no reason for NATO since
the Soviet Union's internal political collapse almost two decades ago. The
neocons turned NATO into another tool, like the NED, for US world hegemony.
Subsequent US administrations violated the understandings that President
Reagan had reached with Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, and have
incorporated former parts of the Soviet empire into NATO. The neocon goal of
ringing Russia with a hostile military alliance has been proclaimed many
times.]

Western European members of NATO balked at the admission of Georgia, as they
understood it as a provocative affront to Russia, on whom Western Europe is
dependent for natural gas. Western Europeans are also disturbed at the Bush
Regime's intentions to install ballistic missile defenses in Poland and the
Czech Republic as the consequence will be Russian nuclear cruise missiles
targeted on European capitals. Europeans don't see the advantage of helping
the US block Russian nuclear retaliation against the US at the expense of
their own existence. Ballistic missile defenses are not useful against
cruise missiles.

Every country is tired of war except for the US. War, including nuclear war,
is the neoconservative strategy for world hegemony.

The entire world, except for Americans, knows that the outbreak of armed
conflict between Russian and Georgian forces in South Ossetia was entirely
due to the US and its Georgia puppet, Saakashvili. Americans, alone in the
world, are unaware that the hostilities were initiated by Saakashvili,
because Bush, Cheney and the Israeli-occupied American media have again lied
to them.

Everyone else in the world knows that the unstable and corrupt Saakashvili,
who proclaims democracy and runs a police state, would not have taken on
Russia by attacking South Ossetia unless given the go-ahead by Washington.

The purpose of the Georgian attack on the Russian population of South
Ossetia is twofold:

To convince Europeans that their action in delaying Georgia's NATO
membership is the cause of "the Russian aggression" and that to save Georgia
from conquest Georgia must be given NATO membership.
To ethnically cleanse South Ossetia of its Russian population. Two thousand
Russian civilians were targeted and killed by the US-equipped and trained
Georgian Army, and tens of thousands fled into Russia. Having achieved this
goal, Saakashvili and his puppet-masters in Washington quickly called for a
cease fire and a halt to "the Russian invasion." The hope is that the
Russian population will be afraid to return or can be prevented from
returning, thus removing the secessionist threat.

No doubt the Bush Regime can con the insouciant American population, just as
it did with Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Iranian nukes, and 9/11
itself, but the rest of the world is not buying it, least of all Moscow, the
Asia Times, and not even America's bought-and-paid-for European allies.

Writing in the Asia Times, Ambassador M. K. Bhadrakumar, a former career
diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service, notes the disinformation that is
being peddled by the Bush Regime and the US media and reports that "at the
outbreak of violence, Russia had tried to have the United Nations Security
Council issue a statement calling on Georgia and South Ossetia to
immediately lay down weapons. However, Washington was disinterested."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JH13Ag02.html

Amb. Bhadrakumar notes that the American and Georgian resort to violence and
propaganda has brought an end to the Russian government's belief that
diplomacy and good will can bring about a settlement of the South Ossetia
issue. If Russia wished, Russia could terminate Georgia's existence as a
separate country at will, and there is nothing the US could do about it.

It is certain that the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia was a Bush Regime
orchestrated event. The American media and the neocon think tanks were ready
with their propaganda blitzes. Neocons had ready a Wall Street Journal
editorial page article for Saakashvili that declares "the war in Georgia is
a war for the West."

Faced with the collapse of his army when Russia sent in troops to protect
South Ossetians from the Georgian troops, Saakashvili declared: "This is not
about Georgia any more. It is about America, its values."

The neocon Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., quickly called a
conference hosted by warmonger Ariel Cohen, "Urgent! Event: Russian-Georgian
War: A Challenge for the U.S. and the World."

The Washington Post lifted its skirts and spread wide its legs to neocon
Robert Kagen's war drums, "Putin Makes His Move."

Only a fool like Kagen could think that if Putin intended to invade Georgia
he would do so from Beijing, or that after sending the American-trained
Georgian army in flight, he would not continue and conquer all of Georgia in
order to put an end to American machinations on Russia's most sensitive
border, machinations that are likely to eventually end in nuclear war.

That despicable whore, the New York Times, spread her legs for Billy Kristol's
rant, "Will Russia Get Away With It?" Kristol thunders against "dictatorial
and aggressive and fanatical regimes" that "seem happy to work together to
weaken the influence of the United States and its democratic allies."
Kristol presents a new axis of evil--Russia, China, North Korea and
Iran--and warns against "delay and irresolution" that "simply invite future
threats and graver dangers."

In other words, "attack Russia now."

Dick Cheney, the insane American Vice President telephoned Saakashvili to
express US solidarity with Georgia in the conflict with Russia and declared:
"Russian aggression must not go unanswered." Cheney's telephone call is like
Great Britain's "guarantee" to Poland against Nazi Germany. Only a complete
idiot would tell Saakashvili anything other than "to cease immediately."

What must be the effect on US Intelligence services and the US military of
Cheney's propagandistic and irresponsible statement of US support for
Georgia's war crimes? Does anyone really believe that the CIA or any US
intelligence service told the vice president that Russia opened the conflict
with an invasion? Russian troops arrived in South Ossetia after thousands of
Ossetians had been killed by the Georgian attack and after tens of thousands
of Ossetians had fled into Russia to escape the Georgian attack. According
to news reports, Russian forces have captured Americans who were with the
Georgian troops directing their attack on civilians.

The US military certainly has no resources for a war against Russia on top
of lost wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a planned war with Iran.

With its Georgian venture, the Bush Regime is guilty of a new round of war
crimes. What will be the consequence?

Many will reply that having got away with 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and with
its preparations for attacking Iran, the Bush Regime will get away with its
Georgian venture as well.

Possibly, however, this time the Bush Regime has overreached.

Certainly Russia now recognizes that the US is determined to exert hegemony
over Russia and is Russia's worst enemy.

China realizes the US threat to its own energy supply and, thereby, economy.

Even America's European allies, chafing under their role of supplying troops
for America's Empire, must now realize that being an American ally is
dangerous and has no benefits. If Georgia becomes a NATO member and renews
its attack on South Ossetia, it must drag Europe into a war with Russia, a
main supplier of energy to Europe.

Moreover, if Russian troops are sent across European frontiers, there is
nothing to stop them.

What does America offer Europe, aside from the millions of dollars it pays
to buy off Europe's political leaders to insure that they betray their own
peoples? Nothing whatsoever.

The only military threat that Europe faces comes from being dragged into
America's wars for American hegemony.

The US is financially bankrupt, with budget and trade deficits that exceed
the combined deficits of the rest of the world together. The dollar has
wilted. The American consumer market is dying from the offshoring of
American jobs and, thereby, incomes, and from the wealth effect of the real
estate and derivatives collapses. The US has nothing to offer Europe.
Indeed, American economic decline is killing European exports by driving up
the value of the euro.

America long ago lost the moral high ground. Hypocrisy has become America's
best known hallmark. Bush, the invader of Afghanistan and Iraq on the basis
of lies and deception, thunders at Russia for coming to the defense of its
peacekeepers and Russian citizens in South Ossetia. Bush, the vampire who
ripped Kosovo out of Serbia's heart and handed it to the Muslims, has taken
an adamant stand against other separatist movements, especially the South
Ossetians who wish to be part of the Russian Federation.

The neoconned Bush Regime is furious that the Russian bear was not
intimidated by the US supported aggression of the American puppet state,
Georgia. Instead of accepting the act of American hegemony that the neocon
script called for, Russia sent the Americanized Georgian army fleeing in
fear.

Having failed with weapons, the Bush Regime now unleashes the rhetoric. The
White House is warning Russia that failure to acquiesce to US hegemony could
have a "significant, long-term impact on relations between Washington and
Moscow."

Do the morons who comprise the Bush Regime really not understand that short
of a surprise nuclear attack on Russia there is nothing whatsoever the US
can do to Moscow?

The Bush Regime owns no Russian currency that it can dump. The Russians own
US dollars.

The Bush Regime owns no Russian bonds that it can dump. The Russians own US
bonds.

The US can cut Russia off from no energy supplies. Russia can cut America's
European allies off from energy.

President Reagan negotiated the end of the cold war with Soviet President
Gorbachev.,
The neoconservatives, whom Reagan fired and drove from his administration,
were furious. The neocons had hoped to win the cold war, thereby
establishing American hegemony.

The Republican Establishment reestablished its hegemony under Bush 1st that
it had lost to Ronald Reagan. With this feat, intelligence was driven from
the Republican Party.

The neocons engineered their comeback with the First Gulf War and their
propaganda, pure lies, that Iraqi troops bayoneted Kuwait babies in
hospitals.

The neocons made a further comeback with President Clinton, whom they
convinced to bomb Serbia in order to permit separatist movements to become
independent states dependent on America.

With Bush 2nd, the neocons took over. Their agenda, American world hegemony,
includes Israeli hegemony in the Middle East.

So far the schemes of these ignorant and dangerous ideologues have come a
cropper. Iraq, formerly in the hands of secular Sunnis who were a check on
Iran, is, after the American invasion and occupation, in the hands of
religious Shi'ites allied with Iran.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban are resurgent, and a large NATO/US army there is
unable to control the situation.

One consequence of the neocons' Afghan war has been the loss of power of the
American puppet president of Pakistan, a Muslim country armed with nuclear
weapons. The puppet president now faces impeachment, and the Pakistani
military has informed the Americans to stop conducting military operations
in Pakistani territory.

The American puppets in Egypt and Jordan might be next to fall.

In Iraq, the Shi'ites, having completed their ethnic cleansing of Sunnis
from neighborhoods, have declared a cease fire in order to contradict the US
propaganda that American withdrawal would lead to a blood bath. Negotiations
on withdrawal dates are now underway between the Americans and the Iraqi
government, which is no longer behaving like a puppet.

Last year Hugo Chavez ridiculed Bush before the UN. Russia's Putin ridiculed
Bush as Comrade Wolf.

On August 12, 2008, Pravda ridiculed Bush, "Bush: Why don't you shut up."

Americans may think they are a superpower before whose presence the world
trembles. But not the Russians.

Those Americans stupid enough to think that America's "superpower" insures
its citizens from danger need to read the total contempt shown for President
Bush in Pravada:

"President Bush,

Why don't you shut up? In your statement on Monday regarding the legitimate
actions of the Russian Federation in Georgia, you failed to mention the war
crimes perpetrated by Georgian military forces, which American advisors
support, against Russian and Ossetian civilians

"President Bush,

Why don't you shut up? Your faithful ally, Mikhail Saakashvili, was
announcing a ceasefire deal while his troops, with your advisors, were
massing on Ossetia's border, which they crossed under cover of night and
destroyed Tskhinvali, targeting civilian structures just like your forces
did in Iraq.

"President Bush,

Why don't you shut up? Your American transport aircraft gave a ride home to
thousands of Georgian soldiers from Iraq directly into the combat zone.

"President Bush,

Why don't you shut up? How do you account for the fact that among the
Georgian soldiers fleeing the fighting yesterday you could clearly hear
officers using American English giving orders to "Get back inside" and how
do you account for the fact that there are reports of American soldiers
among the Georgian casualties?

"President Bush,

Why don't you shut up? Do you really think anyone gives any importance
whatsoever to your words after 8 years of your criminal and murderous regime
and policies? Do you really believe you have any moral ground whatsoever and
do you really imagine there is a single human being anywhere on this planet
who does not stick up his middle finger every time you appear on a TV
screen?

Do you really believe you have the right to give any opinion or advice after
Abu Ghraib? After Guantanamo? After the massacre of hundreds of thousands of
Iraqi citizens? After the torture by CIA operatives?

Do you really believe you have any right to make a statement on any point of
international law after your trumped-up charges against Iraq and the
subsequent criminal invasion?

"President Bush,

Why don't you shut up? Suppose Russia for instance declares that Georgia has
weapons of mass destruction? And that Russia knows where these WMD are,
namely in Tblisi and Poti and north, south, east and west of there? And that
it must be true because there is "magnificent foreign intelligence" such as
satellite photos of milk powder factories and baby cereals producing
chemical weapons and which are currently being "driven around the country in
vehicles"? Suppose Russia declares for instance that "Saakashvili stiffed
the world" and it is "time for regime change"?

Nice and simple, isn't it, President Bush?

"So, why don't you shut up? Oh and by the way, send some more of your
military advisors to Georgia, they are doing a sterling job. And they look
all funny down the night sight, all green."

The US is not a superpower. It is a bankrupt farce run by imbeciles who were
installed by stolen elections arranged by Karl Rove and Diebold. It is a
laughing stock, that ignorantly affronts and attempts to bully an enormous
country equipped with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons.

A population that tolerates the insane Bush Regime and its criminal neocon
operatives has no claims to life on eart