Dear George,
It’s time to take Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki out to the woodshed for a few lessons in the new world order. al recently told a congressional delegation that he doesn’t want any foreign powers messing in Iraqi politics. He's got to understand that the United States has spent a hell of a lot of money and shed a hell of a lot of blood to trash his country. Iraq owes us big time! Whatsoever we trash, we own.
Next lesson: Poor al is anchored in that dead world of the past when a superstitious belief in national sovereignty still held sway. Them days are past, George, and it’s time al joined the twenty-first century. America is no longer a country; it’s a corporate conglomerate. What al calls an invasion and occupation is simply a hostile takeover. All we are doing is making Iraq part of the oceanic movement of capital that has little patience with nationhood. The nation-state is comatose, though the multinationals keep it on life support for appearance sake.
We are not an occupying force, nor can Iraq be a colony since there is no such thing as a nation that can be colonizer or colonized. Nor can there be anything like an empire because there are no nations left to be imperial. It’s all one, big happy merger that serves to separate the wheat from the chaff. This movement is part of a trend in which the power of the collective is gaining ascendancy over individualism, be it the freedom of the individual state or the freedom of the individual citizen.
The toxic fog of multinational capital can no longer tolerate national sovereignty. We are doing al great favor by bringing Iraq into alignment with the realities of the international corporatism that we have created in our own image.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
5:15:30 AM 
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