empire

Topic: Mailer 2

President Bush, “We’ll do everything we can to remind people that we’ve never been a nation of conquers; we’re a nation of liberators.” If we are not a nation of conquers and don’t plan to take over the world what gives us the right to use the same force, but call it something different. While America remains a republic within its own borders, it has become an empire in relationship to the rest of the world. What began as a motley band of colonies 225 years ago is now not only the strongest nation in the world but the strongest nation in the history of the world.

What both Americans and the world must internalize is that no one is even remotely capable of leading this effort but the United States. The only problem with accepting this fact is that most people think that we are on the wrong path doing so. Iraq might be looked at as a steeping stone to controlling the rest of the world, but it just doesn’t make sense to me. If the war in Iraq does go our way and we win. what are we really winning? Oil would be the first thing that most people would argue, but it makes absolutely no sense to say that. The government has spent over a 100 billion on this war already. Take those numbers and compare them to how much money we have spent on eliminating American vulnerability to foreign oil. I could almost guarantee that if all the money spent in Iraq went towards funding altertantive fuel sources in the next five years we would be able to wing ourselves from foreign oil.

If we continue down the path that we have taken over the last five years, we will continue to create enemies and further isolate ourselves from the world community, manufacturing hate and suspicion across the globe. We are engaged now engaged in building a global movement for peace and justice in a new kind of world, and we need a new global strategy. America is becoming an empire, and theirs no turning back.

who poeses the greatest threat?

Topic:mailer
The European edition of time magazine conducted a poll on its website and asked what country poses the greatest danger to world peace. The responses were: North Korea with 7 percent, Iraq with 8, and the United States with 84%. So why are we so hated and why do people say that the United States intends to seek world domination. Corporate Capitalism is a big part in seeing the whole picture. If I saw nothing but businesses from other countries here and knowing that their profiting from them being here, it would anger me a little to, but not as far as to say that they are seeking global domination. Corporate capitalism and establishing yourself around the world is the key for global domination, so I think that is one of the main reasons we are hated so much.

Mailer said that everywhere he looked somebody was waving a flag. The country plunged into a fever of patriotism and didn’t understand what they were supporting. A good example he put forth and compared was patriosm to professional athletes. He said that he can cheer athletes who score winning touchdowns when he doesn’t even know the first thing about them. The government used the flag and the American public was supporting it. They loved words like evil. Bush used the word as if it were a button he could push to increase his power. Bush used the word evil as a narcotic for that part of the American public which feels most distressed. Mailer defines evil as the idea of irreparable damage you’re going to do and then proceed to do it after you already know it is wrong.

I just don’t understand how our attention got flipped from one war to the other. The connections between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were minimal. So why did we push so hard to change from one direction to the other. The first reaction to September 11 was to destroy Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. After Afghanistan was not going our way the attention was pulled toward Iraq and things that were more important to the United States, like oil. We went into Iraq accusing them of having weapons of mass destruction. I just can not support or believe that was the reason for going to war. If that is the case, then why are we not at war with lets say half a dozen other countries that have these weapons, and openly admit it. Mailer said that George Bush has a quest for world domination. There is no evidence that supports that, but there is no evidence that proves otherwise. I have to say that I agree with him to a certain extent. When the war started I was not for or against the war, because at the time I could have cared less. After I watched a movie called fahrenheight 9/11 I have to believe there is more to it than what the government is telling the American public.