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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Why DO they hate America SO MUCH?

In a comment in nakedcapitalism , Francois said:

What the current administration is doing to America international image and position is literally horrendous.

Quite. Note that in another recent post, an excellent analysis by FairEconomist make it clear that the Hanke-Panke plan will help Bank of Goldman City and so forth, and accelerate the destabilisation of the economy.

The whole situation is quite reminiscent of the run-up to the Iraq war. In that case, the debate was limited by the neocon strength in government and the media to a decision between invading Iraq immediately and waiting five minutes and then invading them; other options such as not invading Iraq at all were ignored or ridiculed: the wisdom received from the neocon overlords was that such an idea was not fit for polite society.

In this case, despite severe criticism and plausible proposed alternatives from Soros and so many others, the debate is limited to passing the Hanke-Panke scam or being responsible for the end of life as we know it. Other options are simply ignored. The Senate puts another hundred billion and another few hundred pages on the pig, but fish, chicken and beef are simply not on the menu: there is not enough time to consider doing anything other than completing the destruction of the economy of the United States, adding a nice coup de grace to policies that appear designed to have produced exactly the present crisis situation.

In both cases, a crisis is manufactured and used as an excuse to do great damage to America and of course others also, with normal democratic processes curtailed and precedents set for dictatorial executive power.

One must ask oneself:

"Why DO they hate America SO MUCH?

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