Dear George,
I have spent many a happy hour sitting on the pot as I poured through the pages of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), that scriptural document that gave us the game plan for the Pax Americana Empire. The document tremulates as my hands shake and tears blur my vision. God truly spoke to the authors and ordained that we should run the world. However, the PNAC is even more than that: It is the ideological Viagra that has stiffened what was once a flaccid foreign policy.
The document marks the return of mental illness to our international relations. America went through a terrible period of sanity when the public found itself adrift in a toxic fog of peace and prosperity. Vitality waned and ennui waxed. Madness, on the other hand, stimulates and makes the public feel alive. You could hear an audible sigh of relief rising from the land in the wake of 9/11. Granted, the loudest sigh came from the military-industrial complex, as well it should since they are the ones who have made us what we are today.
Madness has but one goal: self-destruction. Establishing an empire in today’s world is like banging a pox-ridden whore. In the end, it only increases the madness. The PNAC proclaims that America is the world’s sole superpower and that this means we can reshape the world in our image. Which is true if we over look the fact that a peasant society kicked our asses in Vietnam, that we are hard pressed to secure a six-mile stretch of road between Baghdad and the airport, and that a truck bomb drove us out of Lebanon. The point is that Pax Americana is destined to replace Pax Romana. All we need do is repeal the 1648 Peace of Westphalia that established the nation-state as the foundation of international order. Since then, international relations have been characterized by an ever-shifting balance of power, i.e., if a nation gets too big for its britches, other nations band together to cut it down to size. This is a lesson Napoleon learned the hard way. So, imagine if India, China, Russia, and the E.U. decide we are getting too powerful… As the British are fond of saying, there are no permanent friends, only permanent interests.
I swear George, the more powerful a man becomes, the crazier he gets. It must be the painkillers. This is what makes the PNAC sing. Here we are, all set to control all the oil in the Gulf. In a single breath, the PNAC ignores the cornerstone of military planning: logistics. The next time you’re in the mood for a good laugh, get out a globe. Have Condi show you where the countries are, then check out the distance over which we would have to travel to keep our troops supplied, then compared that to the distance China, India, Russia or the E.U. would have to travel to support their troops. On top of this, let us not forget that China has us by the economic balls and could ruin us simply by dumping its dollars
I’m telling you, George, the document is a psychopath’s dream. Place it in the National Archives, between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and pray God it survives the holocaust.[i]
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones.
[i] Thanks to Chalmers Johnson’s Sorrow of Empire, and Morris Berman’s Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire. Both are readable and informative.
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