God help us

(over at the Belmont Club ...)

People, please! Look past the elephant in the room, it's full of other people and animals.

It's not Obama that governs the US by himself. It's not even about the "admin people".

It is about the US *governing elite*. Look at Washington Post's David Ignatius article about Obama's bid to impose "new peace plan" on Israel, afer consultations with the elite security figures from the past and the present. It is Petraeus, and it is Jim Jones, and it is all (?) the previous National Security Advisers from Brzezinski though Scowcroft to Sandy Berger and Powell - they are all promoting the policy of pushing Israel to the indefensible pre-1967 Arab aggression borders, in order to placate the Arab/Muzlim revanchism. Every functionary in the American Establishement knows, that if he tows this bipartisan line, keeping to the pretenses of "peace process" - he or she will be richly rewarded by the "private sector". And so it goes on.

Why? Because it is in their interests. It is not what most Americans want, but then again who's asking them? After all, the US is governed by the government apparatus of secret servicies, CIA and the State. All serving the interests of Big Business. And it just wants to trade. With whomever.

Now compare the "Jews" market and the "Arabs/Muzlims" market.

Plus, they want stability. With or without Israel.

The real cause of this travesty is of course that America has long lost its way, its calling, its Destiny - to serve as the core of the World's Federation of Free Nations. Yes, really.

But that would require allegiance to the Truth, and Will to Fight for what is Right. But the populace just wants to be entertained - or is it the Big Business that prefer it that way. So instead, the generals "manage" the situation, relying on their Arab "moderate" "partners". And of course, Israel issue is no help in *that*.

It was long in the making, but the anti-Israel coup in Washington came about in 2007 with the Baker-Hamilton report. The forged NIE of 2007 letting Iran off the hook came after that.

Nothing Obama does, Bush didn't do before him. Well, almost nothing.

As for the "Communist" menace - the USSR was no Communist, whatever that may mean. It was a state monopolistic system. And the bigger they get, the more big business monopolies become indistinguishable from the government-run monopolies. And it is not a coincidence that even in today's USA we see the convergence - or be it overtake - of big business and government.

That is a recipe for disaster of course, an anti-dote to Freedom. And it must be stopped.

Capitalism is good not in itself, but as long as it serves to enhance personal freedoms and meritocracy through free competition. But cartelisation/monopolization/excessive government control brings an end to that. The only legitimate form of control is to fight the excessive centralization forces, be it in government or in the "private" business - which is for the most part publicly owned anyway, and only controlled by a few functionaries on top.

Obama is just a front man. Even if he's angling to provoke Israel into nuclear war, enabling himself to declare marshal law and postpone elections indefinitely. That might be his personal agenda, but still he doesn't govern by himself. It is the elite of Brzezinski and of Jimmy "f**k the Jews" Baker III, of profs. Mearsheimer and Walt and of Generals Petraeus and Jones that push for anti-Israel policies. Some of them not even from their personal animus. They just value their good living over the Israeli Jews' lifes.

American "interests" ... is it the interests of American People, or the American business/government elite?

America has to decide what she wants more - to have good trade with the revanchist eliminationist Arab and Muzlim powers, or to stand by the people who are her friend, share her ideals and of whom she proclaimed herself an "ally".

Or was it all just an election-time rhetoric for these past 30 (50?) years?

The unfortunate answer today is, yes - but might that yet change?