Patience and realism
alt.politics.bush
I'm watched FOX News Sunday with Nicholas Burns. I think things are
going just fine with North Korea, from what this guy said. This is a
legacy of Colin Powell's stewardship and President Bush's
diplomatic maturity in the Spy Plane incident. The reason why the
Chinese patriot Weng Wei was harassing the US spy plane was because of
all the juvenile sword rattling by the Bush League until these two
aircraft touched. Anyone who believes that the Bush League had every
intention of going to war with somebody, anybody, when they came to
town has forgotten the Spy Plane incident. Assholes like Bill Kristol
and Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson began their drum beat for going to
war with China and it was a little dicey, there, for a while. But
Powell seized control of the diplomacy and President Bush acted like
President Bush and I was greatly comforted by the resulting harmony
between China and America before 911 and eternally grateful to the
heavens above for this new relationship after 911. Bin Ladin's
timing was just a little off, because if 911 had been 21 January 2001,
the Left Behind crowd would have had its desire for Armageddon
fulfilled. And China is the essentially player in the reunification of
the Koreas sooner than later. And here's the point: if Bushie had
worked as hard at diplomacy with the UN in regards to Iraq, Saddam
Hussein would still be in jail and Casey Sheehan would still be alive,
given the law of averages.
And George Allan can just go fuck himself if he believes anything
else. He is part of the problem. He doesn't know anymore about
diplomacy than I know about the difference between sex with and without
a foreskin. Before 911, the only thing George Allan was interested in
was Bill Clinton's foreskin. He makes all these asshole football
metaphors because he thinks it makes him folksy and wise. Everytime he
makes a football metaphor about anything except football, it is a
signal he doesn't have clue about the subject at hand. And I don't
know enough about football to know if he makes any sense about
football. He was on Stephanoupolis with James Webb. I'm sorry Webb
didn't beat him in the primary as a Republican, but Webb falls into
the same category as John Warner and Allen falls into the category of
Duke Cunningham and Webb would be good for Virginia.
In terms of these 4 bases we are building in Iraq, these will be
forward basing for American/NATO joint operations. We are going to be
in Kuwait forever, longer than Britain was in Hong Kong and we will
provide the long term stability in the region that we have played in
Germany, Italy and Japan. As I say, we will have the combat arms and
combat support out of Iraq within 2 years and shifted into Afghanistan
to complete the job there. These bases will be service support bases
in the same way we have similar bases in Hamburg and Stuttgart and
Yosaka and Leghorn, We will need far less deployment in Afghanistan
because NATO is already in there and we can flesh out those forces and
largely rotate National Guard and Reserve formations out of the
theater.
George F. Will's first statement about Bush becoming a conservative
and how true conservatives understand how difficult it is to force
democracy down the throats of the rest of the world is as if this is
the new, improved George F. Will which has replaced the George F. "On
To Tehran" Will, Jr., of last week. It's like he didn't exist
for the last 5 years.
Bill Kristol's position on North Korea is based on a military model
with a draft. This is the singular design weakness of the Project for
the New American Century, given that neo-colonialism is, in itself, the
national destiny. By going into Iraq, Bushie violated the principle of
Economy in warfare exactly because of the fallacy in Bill Kristol's
military model which arises from a total lack of the principle of Mass,
which has a quality all unto itself. Gingrinch shares this same
deficiency in his calculus. Hell, the entire Karl Rove wing of the GOP
shares this flaw, people like George Allan and Peter King and the other
white male Bobble Heads on the federal payroll and in the Republican
Study Committee.
This is what America needs to understand about this coming election,
or any election, for that matter. Bushie doesn't need a majority to
protect his agenda: he only needs enough to sustain a veto. As I say,
the US Constitution is designed to encourage a dynamic consensus within
the triangulation of the Executive, the Senate and the House. I'm
willing to stipulate that the Judiciary represents a static element in
refining the legislative output of this dynamical triangulation and the
Stephens' decision regarding Hamdean v/ Rumsfled is a case study to
that end. If legislation can be legitimately fashioned that exceeds a
critical mass of agreement that occurs at 67% and above, it is most
likely to represent an honest and progressive synthesis of the
collective consciousness on any given issue, issue by issue. The
process required to achieve a veto proof majority tends to neutralize
the natural alienation which occurs in the normal collective experience
of the human condition. The majority of the majority process of the
current leadership deliberately amplifies this alienation in order to
create the social polarization Karl Rove exploits to put a head of
lettuce in the Oval Office. Polarization is a symptom of an unhealthy
body politic, pretty much the same thing as a malarial fever. This
polarization is a result of the policy of hate mongering Karl Rove
enforced in foreign policy until Josh Bolton replaced him. Since 1981,
our foreign policy has embraced hate mongering as an element of the
vision of America Charles Z Wick installed for broadcast at Voice of
America. And all the people that give Bushie his Congressional
majority were selected by Newt Gingrich for the Contract With America
came to office on the wave of hate mongering generated by the
Republican Noise Machine and the grass roots Fascist activists, the
Ditto Heads.
And all these people share the same fundamental error regarding
diplomacy as Bill Kristol, that is, that we can fulfill his
neo-colonial wet dreams without a military draft. Nicholas Burns is on
CBS with Bob Schiefer and he just said that this missile test was a
rebuke to China and I disagree. As I say, it is useful to recognize
the tribute to the 1812 Overture in the results of the missle test and
its relation to the patriot, Weng Wei, and the Spy Plane incident.
North Korea wants a way out of its box and it sees China's example as
the most attractive way to reunification with Seoul.
John McCain just called China immature. This from a nation which just
tossed its military into the political swamps of the Euphrates for the
photo op. As long as McCain is making noises to please Phil Gramm, he
is going to be just another good friend of Grover Norquist. Grover
Norquist's model for tax reform shares Bill Kristol's moral fallacy
and proposes a military establishment based upon the economic
equivalent of repealing the law of gravity. Bill Kristol's world
view contains the same elemental fallacy as is contained in the 18th
Amendment.
During the Spy Plane incident, I began to communicate with China in
this manner in order to reassure them that FOX News Sunday, as a proxy
for the Republican Noise Machine, did not represent the the official
positon of America, or, at least, all Americans. I reassured them that
there was a cadre of adult leadership in both the GOP and the Democrats
that felt that the enemies of Nixon's China Police were the common
enemy and that the American media is truly a FREE media. I don't know
if it helped, but it seems even now to have been a collateral agenda
with Colin Powell's impulse and the outcome will be one of the most
important and beneficial legacies of President GW Bush's
administration. Along with Russia, it has provided an essential linch
pin in the war on terrorism.
The thing to remember about the US Constitution is that it reflects
the Wicca in the Bible, Jesus being the moment when Wicca was given to
mankind with the gift of the Holy Spirit. A tenet of Wicca is
symbolized in the hat of the Sorcerer Mickey appropriates in The
Sorcerer's Apprentice by the crescent and star inscribed within the
triangle/cone of the hat and it means that power without wisdom is
tyranny and wisdom without power is a contradiction in terms. Wicca
existed before Jesus came, but He really connects the dots with the
Holy Spirit. And the process of collaboration required to overcome a
veto by combining the collective ideal and intent of 67% of any human
organization is Wicca, writ large. It is a certain kind of ritual that
allows the Holy Spirit to invest in the emerging Esprit de Corps
required for consensus and imbue the proceedings with a certain
spiritual clarity. By definition, a purely partisan vote, on the other
hand, defeats the critical mass by definition. Wicca has more to do
with flush toilets and cataract operations than either religion or
politics.
So, as I say, Bushie doesn't need a majority in Congress to ensure
the progressive nature of the legislative process as long as he
requires a far higher moral standard than the Contract With America by
raising the bar to reflect the social processes of the Bible with a
veto. By employing a veto, the Executive is able to deal in negative
space, where s/he can gain the advantage of the defensive from an
up-hill lie. I think that the Founders anticipated that the normal
flow of business within this dynamical triangulation, with the veto
being the defining constrait, would reflect a working consensus that
bobs between 76 - 85% and occasionally achieving a perfect consensus
of 100%. Kurt Levin said something to the effect in regards to polling
that anything around 80% is close enough for government work.
And that's the truth.