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(The front cover of U.S. News & World Report, Jan 13,2003
issue has title: The American Empire...Is the U.S. trying to shape the world? Should it? The inside article gets into
many areas including what our Founding Fathers held. They were dedicated unilateralism and the "phrase "no entangling allliances"
but the idea came from George Washington's farewell message- "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances
with any portion of the foreign world". President Franklin Roosevelt said, "economic diseases are highly communicable". This
is our main point in the letter below and a 1950 ROTC Army Manual made many similar points. At that time, it said , the USA
was very fortunate in not having in not having to depend on oil and other items controlled by foreign nations. Pundits like
Gilbran said to Pity the nation that does not make or grow its own products for that nation will soon be under the power of
the one that does. The USA is on a terrible course of self-destruction by trying to steer the world in their own way while
they exported their production to faraway places. In deed, many in the world see the USA as a child playing imperialist.)
Review John Perkins book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". Click here to go his site which has several good links telling
his story about his part in the economic assaults on other nations by elite groups, our government and the World Banks. Note
especially the links to Amy Goodman for good overviews.
U.S. plays at the dangerous game of Globalism
Elizabeth Sullivan is a journalistic treasure. She
is an all-in-one expert, journalist, reporter, essayist and historian. Any reader who disagrees or agrees knows she has done
her homework and does not merely pick things out from the wire services like so many other reporters seem to do. She wades
right into the meat of the problems of our times.
In the (Dec. 15 ) Forum section, she got into the thick of things again on why the rest
of the world hates us so much. She points out that 15 percent fo Americans say they sometimes go hungry. This is a real indication
that we have a difficult problem resolving our own economic woes while we go around the world telling others how to
live.
The United States is the teenager of world history who tries to tell its elders how
they should act. At the same time, by moving our production and factories to faraway places we have resumed economic colonialism
with the need to protect our interests almost everywhere in the world. Many in the world now see us as a childlike, imperialistic
nation that partakes in a new slave trade based on wage slaves in the cheapest labor markets of the world. It is obvious that
we play like children with globalism, not really knowing how dangerous it is.
(Cleveland's ) The Plain Dealer and all of us should be proud to have such a refreshing
perceptive voice like Sullivan's crying out fromt he wilderness of jingoism fostered by our political leaders and other channels
of the media.
By Ray Tapajna
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From The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sat., Dec. 28, 2002 / B10 by Ray Tapajna
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(Elizabeth Sullivan excells in reporting the geopolitics
of the Middle East and the Balkans. Her husband served in Desert Storm and in Nothern Iraq Kurd country too. He died
of cancer about four years later and apparently Elizabeth Sullivan has dedicated herself to passing on all the geopolitcal
influences surrounding this area of the world in the best objective manner possible . She also gets into our leadership role
in the world too commenting on our Presidents' roles in these issues. You can search on Google for many of her contributions
under Elizabeth Sullivan Cleveland Plain Dealer or write her at bsullivan@plaind.com )
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(In reference to Dick Feagler's 'drop gun' column
in the Plain Dealer)
Dick Feagler uses the analogy of a 'drop gun' in finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
He suggests that if there is no evidence, it will be created. Sadly, not
too many in the USA care any more. They
have forgotten why we went to war in the first place.
Also it seems no one wants to bring up the 100,000 veterans from the last Gulf War who are
suffering from the Gulf War Syndrome and how many will be affected this time. How could the US send troops back into
this area without any answers regarding the causes.
President Wilson in World War 1 had about 75,000 'Four Minute" men cross the nation telling
about the horrible savage German "Huns". It worked so well that Wilson had a problem after the war to reverse himself
for the sake of any real peace. Others insisted that Germany should be just one big farm land without any factories.
This created a vacuum for someone like Hitler to rise up. A similar situation now exists in the Middle East with others
like Saddam and Bin Laden waiting in the wings for their opportunity.
Many Americans safe in the suburbs watch the war on TV as if it was some kind of 4th of July
celebration.
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