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The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 25: Dick Cheney, the inferior art of bulldozing reality
By B.J. Sabri
Occasionally, jokes can be instructive. The following
is an example: Three patients in a mental hospital find a large book. They
decide to read it to make sense of its content. After the first one read it, he
decreed, it was a great love story. And, when the second one read it, he
announced, it was a study of mathematics. But after the third one read it, he
insisted, it was a cookbook. Squabbling to prove who was right, they went to
the head doctor to ask for his opinion. When the doctor saw the book, he
exclaimed, “So…It was you three who took my telephone directory!”
Jan 14, 2005, 19:57
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 24: Dick Cheney, rewriting history with a shovel
By
B.J. Sabri
What is the status of occupied Iraq 20 months after
the U.S. invasion? Considering the magnitude and intensity of the uprising that
turned the optimistic invasion into a protracted war, the answer is but one:
Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and George Bush have massively miscalculated. They
looked at the coveted conquest of Iraq through the rusted eye of the Zionist
needle.
Dec 23, 2004, 16:58
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 23: Dick Cheney, reshaping history with an ax
By B.J. Sabri
Association of ideas is a marvelous mechanism of
the mind. You may be thinking about how intriguing tap dance is, and suddenly,
you remember the first time you saw Gene Kelly doing it in a film. The same
phenomenon could happen when we think about Vice President Dick Cheney. It is possible
that the moment we think of him, the name of Halliburton (Cheney’s former
company that is making billions of dollars from the war on Iraq) jumps to the
foreground.
Dec 10, 2004, 20:28
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 22: Colin Powell, epilog
By B.J. Sabri
Colin Powell’s hollow knowledge on the issue of
liberation is a masterwork of self-importance. He cites the case of Europe
during WWII as proof of American “liberation enterprise”. Powell pompously
related that experience to the invasion of Iraq, but in doing that, he tripped
on pertinent methodical differentiation. For instance, he interchanged the
concept of “liberation from occupation” which is noble, with
the concept of “occupation as
liberation”, which is colonialist.
Nov 20, 2004, 17:08
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 21: Colin Powell, procedure for conquest
By B.J. Sabri
Powell’s “theories”
on Iraq’s occupation, sovereignty, and election are not disconnected subjects,
but one unified theme detailing the procedure for conquest. Although Powell is
clever at using colloquial imagery to buttress those “theories”, the absence of
convincing arguments inescapably leads him to trivialize all issues before him.
Nov 9, 2004, 23:21
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 20: Colin Powell, the emissary of colonialist slavery
By B.J. Sabri
Colin Powell is a master theorist on the future
of Iraq, except that his theories are incoherent and lack corroboration. As
U.S. secretary of state, Powell feels the pressure of having to clarify issues
he is not adept at debating. Despite the voids in his arguments, he is still an
invaluable asset—he describes U.S. mechanisms for converting Iraq into an
American colonial protectorate.
Oct 30, 2004, 20:09
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 19: Colin Powell, the delirium of empire
By B.J. Sabri
“You left me to suffer for four months in that damn
Iraqi prison,” exclaimed actor Richard Dean Anderson’s character Jack O’Neill
of the TV-series Stargate SG-1 at one of his former comrades. Of course, Jack
O’Neill told a fabricated story that the authors of the show put in his mouth.
Critically, it is not relevant whether the story of O’Neill has roots in events
experienced by a real or imaginary character. What was relevant, however, is
that the writers and producers of SG-1 inserted it intentionally to communicate
two messages through fiction.
Oct 2, 2004, 21:41
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 18: Colin Powell, a small myth inside a bubble
By B.J. Sabri
Fox News, the rabid voice of U.S. militant
fascism and bugle of war hysteria, bombastically informed its viewers on August
9 that the U.S. army killed over 300 “terrorists” in the Iraqi city of Najaf.
The station was referring to an attack conducted by U.S. occupation forces
against supporters of the Iraqi leader Moqtada al-Sadr, otherwise derogatorily
referred to by the occupiers as a “cleric”, which he is.
Sep 4, 2004, 14:01
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 17: Colin Powell, a cool doctrinaire of hyper-imperialism
By B.J. Sabri
In the vocabulary of hyper-imperialism, the
slogan, “regime change”, through the concocted doctrine of military preemption”
has acquired a specific meaning: access to colonialism. The concept
works like this: If a non-nuclear country is of a strategic importance to the
economics and ideology of hyper-imperialism, the U.S. could fabricate a ruse to
invade it, change its regime, and establish military bases on its territory.
Iraq is the first sovereign state to fall consequent to this doctrine.
Aug 11, 2004, 21:57
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 16: American Modified and Accepted Hitlerism: Comparisons and conclusions (4)
By B.J. Sabri
Including the system
of government, i.e., the political order, in the comparison between Nazi
imperialism and U.S. imperialism is neither crucial nor necessary. In fact, the
nature, philosophy, institutions, and practice of any political system are not
relevant to its objectives. Historically, Soviet communism, British
imperialism, Japanese imperialism, South African apartheid, Iraq’s Baath, the
Egyptian bureaucratic system, Israeli Zionism, etc., all acted in accordance
with an established ideology rather in conformity with the system of government
they devised to implement it.
Jul 26, 2004, 23:13
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 15: American Modified and Accepted Hitlerism: Comparisons and conclusions (3)
By B.J. Sabri
as I stated in part 13, comparing two political
systems with seemingly different
backgrounds and history could present theoretical difficulties. The reason
being, we tend to accept that the resulting dissimilarities might be evidence
that similarities have no relevance. However, similarities have their own
logic, and if methodically analyzed, they may neutralize or even cancel any
other consideration. Consequently, comparing an entrenched and historically
durable U.S. imperialism with the short-lived Nazi-imperialism is
straightforward—both imperialisms thought and acted similarly in specific
ideological and practical areas.
Jul 9, 2004, 19:52
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 14: American Modified and Accepted Hitlerism: Comparisons and conclusions (2)
By B.J. Sabri
Because the word “violence” is comprehensive of
countless meanings, I limited its use here to all acts of military aggressions
as motivated by policy, ideology, imperialistic expansion, or colonial
conquest.
Jun 22, 2004, 21:24
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 13: American Modified and Accepted Hitlerism: Comparisons and conclusions (1)
By B.J. Sabri
In discussing U.S. military employment of
depleted uranium in Iraq, I framed the issue in a precise ideological setting,
which is premeditated violence to implement conquest. Indeed, aside from
launching an unprovoked war of aggression, the U.S. displayed unwavering
willingness to inflict unspeakable death and destruction for fabricated
reasons.
Jun 10, 2004, 13:17
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 12: American Modified and Accepted Hitlerism: Domestic considerations
By B.J. Sabri
In debating how
ideologies or ideas could find their way to the public psyche, I selected
institutions, indoctrination, and thought contagion as the main factors.
However, I consider thought contagion by repetition and spreading, the
preponderant factor among the three. The reason being is that we could
challenge and change institutions; we could fend off indoctrination, but we
cannot stop ideas from spreading.
May 27, 2004, 20:27
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 11: American Modified and Accepted Hitlerism: Elaboration
By B.J. Sabri
The American
philosophy of colonialist imperialism under George W. Bush has reached such low
standards of consistency and comprehension that trying to guess its logic is
futile.
May 24, 2004, 16:01
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 10: American Modified and Accepted Hitlerism: Discussion
By B.J. Sabri
Discussing the
concept of “American Modified and Accepted Hitlerism”
(AMAH) is an avenue to understand the working mechanisms of U.S. imperialism.
Although I tend to accentuate violence as the most prominent expression of the
concept, violence is only a co-factor in the multiple layers of U.S.
ideological make-up. Any dedicated reflection on the ideological announcements
of U.S. power holders would distinctly spell out all other factors including
the desire for limitless imperialistic expansion, acquired or innate tendency
for fascism because of unaccountability and supremacist mentality, lust for
colonialism in all forms, and entrenched racism, all arranged into a corollary
that U.S. imperialists affectionately call the “American experience.”
May 21, 2004, 16:08
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 9: American Modified and Accepted Hitlerism: General dynamic
By B.J. Sabri
As per my task to
illustrate the failure of U.S. enterprise to colonialize Iraq, I systematically
committed my resources to delineate the entire fabric of that enterprise and to
link it, dialectically and historically, to the essence of what has become a
sadistic-fascist empire.
May 14, 2004, 19:41
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 8: American modified and accepted Hitlerism
By B.J. Sabri
We have tentatively
established that mentality is a precursor to ideology, which in turn acts as a
unified system of thought, action, and alibi. In view of that, ideology and
stringent capitalistic control is the locomotive that has been guiding U.S.
power from its early continental colonialistic expansions, through global
imperialistic domination, to its current hyper-imperialistic consolidation of
empire.
May 12, 2004, 15:39
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 7: Is Hitlerism a mentality?
By B.J. Sabri
Is “depleted” uranium toxic? The US says no. However,
“depleted uranium” radioactivity causes a host of deleterious side effects
including depression of the immune system, male sterility, leukemia, uterine,
ovarian, thyroid, and prostate cancers, in addition to birth defects and
mutation of DNA.
May 10, 2004, 16:10
The Splendid Failure of Occupation
Part 6: Deliberation or Isaac Newton and the naughty apple
By B.J. Sabri
Two contentions emerged at the end of part five.
First, U.S. infatuation with its own military power is such that inflicting an
unprecedented mass killing is only a way to demonstrate that power. Second, the
U.S. deliberately used radioactive material on Iraq, on Serbia-Kosovo, as well
as in Afghanistan for reasons that go beyond military imperatives.
May 7, 2004, 14:32
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