Pax Americana: Enemies ARE the People – Represent Our Resistance

U.S. presidents eventually find their role as imperialist presidents. An air of arrogance and a historical sense of superiority stand behind them. The U.S. is a “superpower.” It owns lots of nuclear weapons of mass destruction and won’t let anyone else own them except “good” friends. Its corporate army of profiteers excels at capitalizing from soft or hard orders to “liberate” this or that country. Its multi-millionaire politicians, with elections funded by the corporations, who look good, sound good because they are groomed to dodge domestic and foreign policy issue-questions. And on the orders of the corporate media and these well-groomed politicians, its citizenry turns its collective head, and with Condi Rice, sings The Star Spangled Banner – oh say can you see by the dawn’s early light… a shopping mall to engage in consumerism.

It is a government that has always relied on brute force and aggression in order to snub its domestic and foreign “enemies.” Ask the Native Americans! It is a government that loves itself so much that it writes its own “romantic” narrative about itself as it goes along. It writes itself as hero, its actions against others as necessary for the hero of a “good” nation. What’s good for the U.S. is good for the world! And that “world,” “according to the rules of Anglo-American discourse,” Noam Chomsky observes, is limited to “the political class in Washington and London (and whoever happens to agree with them on specific matters)” (“The Most-Wanted List”). It is really clear about its agenda and its story! Politicians approve of an Attorney General who doesn’t think water boarding is torture because he is a “good” man for the job! In plain sight, the Pax Americana regime supports other regimes in agreement with its agenda and it therefore supplies the necessary weaponry of mass destruction to destroy the lives of the Palestinians and Somalians. Bombing and occupation is profitable for the politicians, lobbyists, and corporate cronies of U.S. imperialism.