VHeadline.com's Washington D.C. based commentarist Chris Herz writes: I really don't care much whether Hillary Rodham Clinton or Rudolph Giuliani represent the US elites after November of 2008. The problem is not whether one war or another can be waged more efficiently; which seems the totality of their political conversation.
The real problem is rather that these elites can see no future for themselves without the plundering of resources from other nations.
Peak oil, the point in time when resources are surpassed by demand, is certainly upon us. We may argue that this moment occurred two years ago, or whether it is still two years in the future. But in the scale of even human events, let alone geographical history what the hell.
What is of significance is that since this work was originally done in the 1940s by Hubbard and others, the USA have done utterly nothing from a national economic standpoint to prepare themselves for this change. All macro-economic choices made by the empire have been based upon the assumption that the US military would be able forever to commandeer oil resources from other countries to make up for the declines in domestic production.
It is not just that some of us drive around in three tonnes of SUVs. It is that our privileged population has allowed itself to disperse into countryside far removed from its venues of employment. This necessitating hours of commuting by private auto; there being no efficient way to bring public transportation to such fragmented communities.
It is a fact that where Germany or Japan might use a canal barge or freight train to move goods about, the USA uses vastly less efficient lorries. And other industrial processes are similarly inefficient.
- It is a fact that the military itself is the biggest single user of fossil fuel in our country.
- The national resistance movement in Iraq has cut these notions off at the knees.
No one understands this reality better than our national proprietorship ... these people did not grow so rich by being stupid.
Yes, indeed, they have bet the farm on the ability to confiscate Iraqi oil, and after that Saudi or Iranian, but the size of this wager makes it all the more certain that there will be no substantive changes in our economic or social polity. If it takes outright fascism at home to support even the dimmest hopes for a military solution to this problem, well that is what it shall be.
And, if basing the phony electoral politics of the USA on a bunch of crazy religious fanatics and southern, western and suburban racists has resulted in a disastrous explosion of incompetence, well then we will default to the Clinton/Obama faction to see what can be rescued from the debacle foisted upon us by the Bush regime.
2008 is still too soon to see even the beginnings of a real change in the ways in which we do our national business. We will first have to encounter a Dien Bien Phu, or perhaps even a Stalingrad on the banks of the Euphrates before this discussion can even begin in the imperial homeland.
Even then, if it looks like the loot can still be gained by assaults on South America or Africa, closer by far to our country and its military bases, well then beware. For the empire, while it has still the strength to project its military abroad, will do just that.
This is why Venezuela's Bolivarians are well-advised to build up the strength of the national militia and any other organizations that offer the hope of a defense of the revolutionary gains won by the Venezuelan people since 1992.
Don't look for some amelioration of US aggression from within the imperium ... deterrence is the only possibility.
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