Obama’s ‘ugly business as usual’

Stephen Lendman Correspondent
Periodic National Security Strategy (NSS) documents reveal Washington’s dark side. Updated versions reflect old wine in new bottles. Including permanent wars on humanity. Against one invented enemy after another. Waging what the late Gore Vidal called “perpetual war for perpetual peace.”

Making the world safe for monied interests. At the expense of popular ones. At the cost of millions of lives and appalling human misery.

Endless US direct and proxy wars rage against multiple countries. New conflicts await to be launched.

The business of America is war. Destroying humanity one country at a time or in multiples. Wealth, power and dominance alone matter.

Democratic values are pure fiction. America never was beautiful. For sure not now run by bipartisan gangsters making policy. Neocon lunatics threaten total war. Potential life-ending global conflict. America’s addiction is humanity’s curse.

Super-weapons used like king-sized hand grenades make the unthinkable possible. On February 6, the White House published a so-called “fact sheet” on Obama’s 2015 National Security Strategy. A document reflecting business as usual. Prioritising war. Deploring peace. Time magazine called it “new lyrics to a familiar tune.”

Neocon National Security Advisor Susan Rice defended Obama’s NSS at Brookings. One analyst calls her the “queen of interventionist hawks.” Another says she’s a “consummate ally of grubby despots.”

Banality of pure evil best describes her. She deplores peace, non-violence, diplomacy and social justice. She’s typifies neocon influence infesting Washington. America “proudly shoulder(s) the responsibility of global leadership,” she said. “(T)he question is not whether America leads in the world, but how.”

Her talk featured Russia bashing. Called its non-existent “aggression” in Ukraine “a heinous and deadly affront to long-standing international law and norms.” Putin scrupulously respects them. No nation in world history violates them more egregiously than America on a global scale.

Rice lied about Obama undecided on whether to supply Kiev with “lethal defensive equipment.”

Equipment means weapons. Defensive means for offense. Throughout months of conflict, Washington provided Kiev with heavy weapons.

Greater amounts are coming. Rice didn’t explain. Big Lies substituted for hard facts. Obama’s new NSS is a declaration of permanent wars. A fact sheet says “(w)e will lead with purpose.” Code language for demanding all nations follow Washington rules – or else.

“We will lead with strength.” Meaning obey US policy or be bombed back to the stone age. “We will lead by example.” Some example: permanent wars, spurning democracy, instituting tyranny, risking humanity’s survival.

“We will lead with capable partners.” Meaning support America’s agenda or face its wrath. We will lead with all instruments of US power.” The closest the White House comes to saying might makes right.

“We will lead with a long-term perspective.” Longterm or short, America’s agenda is the same – unchallenged global dominance, no independent nations allowed, democracy strictly forbidden. We will advance the security of the United States, its citizens, and US allies and partners by:”

“Maintaining…the best trained, equipped and led (military) force in the world…” In other words, prioritising militarism and war-making over peace, stability an security.

“Working with Congress” to assure increasing billions spent advancing America’s imperium.

“Reinforcing our homeland security” by terrorising non-believers into submission. Filling America’s gulag with challengers to Washington’s drive for global hegemony.

“Transitioning to a sustainable global security posture” through a policy of worldwide state terror.

“Striving for a world without nuclear weapons” by developing and producing more destructive ones.

Developing a global capacity to” deal with all types of threats by proliferating them.

“Confronting the urgent crisis of climate change” by ignoring it altogether.

“We will advance a strong, innovative, and growing US economy” at the expense of others worldwide. By exploiting them. Stealing their resources. Turning their workers into serfs.

Eliminating good jobs at home. Replacing them with rotten ones. Turning America into a dystopian wasteland for ordinary people.

Its middle class targeted for elimination altogether. Its working class forced to accept poverty-level jobs or starve. America’s social contract on the chopping block for elimination.

US resources increasingly going for militarism, war-making and corporate handouts. “We will advance respect for universal values at home and around the world by” saying one thing, doing another. Pretending to “promot(e) and defend democracy, human rights, and equality” while practicing polar opposite policies.

So-called “US leadership” threatens everyone. Waging permanent wars. Deploring peace. Eliminating one sovereign independent government after another en route to colonising planet earth entirely. No nation threatens humanity’s survival more than America. None have a more appalling human rights record.

None are more duplicitous. None more addicted to global wars for power and profits. At a time Washington recklessly risks starting WW III. Stopping this monster matters most. A simple choice. That or perish.