From: devcarter@iinet.net.au   
      
   USA : Terrorist State - so what?   
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   All countries or empires are born out of conflict and whatever it   
   takes to get the job done- migration, settlement, and ultimately   
   colonial displacement of indigenous populations.   
      
   Colonization to statehood comes hand in hand with the tactics of real   
   politic and thus with what ever quantum of "terror" necessary to do   
   the business of state building.   
      
   This is a natural process where the "strong" social system in an   
   evolutionary sense tends to destroy, displace, subjugate or transform   
   the "weaker" systems.   
      
   Transformation is the final process of assimilation and integration of   
   an indigenous population and aspects of its culture into the stronger   
   cultural system so the transformation is ultimately a two way process   
   of exchange.   
      
   The spoils of colonization are the spoils of victory - all the   
   resources of occupied lands, less the cost of retaining them from   
   competitors- liberators or colonizers that would seek to displace the   
   victors.   
      
   The transformation process leads to inter-marriage and a substantial   
   Creole population with multi-ethnic or multi-racial roots and a stake   
   in the evolving system. Post integration via the transformation   
   process, the indigenous element does not seek nor need liberation.   
      
   Most African-Americans would be aghast if Robert Mugabe sought to   
   liberate them from the hands of the white colonialists.   
      
   But in other colonial territories the situation is different. The   
   population of Gaza or in the West Bank under Israeli occupation for   
   decades would have no qualms about liberation from any Arab state or   
   Iran.   
      
   It is very important for the average US citizen to understand why this   
   is so.   
      
   The social systems I have been talking about are real things- made of   
   real people with attitudes, and wants and all the other psychological   
   and physiological characteristics of the human animal. Social systems   
   are open systems, which means the attributes including beliefs are not   
   "fixed in time" but are variable and open to revision as secular   
   knowledge progressively displaces traditional beliefs.   
      
   Naturally, some conservative diehards would like to maintain an   
   eternal "status quo" and preserve traditional belief in religion and   
   economics that support a conservative agenda from the inevitable   
   reality of revision and evolutionary transformation. They support the   
   teaching of creationism rather than the teaching of the science of   
   human evolution. In political office religious belief motivates their   
   pursuit of ideals irrespective of the impossibility of their   
   realization. They attempt to reverse engineer by propaganda the   
   reality of open social systems in order to create and manipulate them   
   geopolitically as "closed entities".   
      
   Thus colonizers and indigenous entities are no longer perceived   
   objectively as competitors but become moral entities in a diehard's   
   ideological cosmology. For the USA the Zionist colonizers are allies   
   exercising their right to pacification by military escalation, while   
   indigenous opponents such as Hezbolah and Hamas are denied any right   
   of militant self defense of territory.   
      
   The strength of the American diehards self-delusion was made plain in   
   the recent election campaign when McCain claimed that : "We're   
   Americans, we make history" rather than the more accurate "we make   
   more geopolitical and economic black holes with no light in sight"   
   There is no real difference between "principals" and "reified   
   culturally indoctrinated delusions that are impervious to change".   
      
   Thus the conservative diehard's America seeks to eliminate from its   
   empire any transformation process leading to assimilation and   
   integration and peace by compromise and consent. It thus opposes any   
   peace settlements which might demographically undermine the purity of   
   the Jewish ethnicity despite the growing probability of its   
   inevitability in the longer term.   
      
   Thus the terror that the USA aids and abets is religious terror not   
   for a viable peace but for preservation of the conservative illusion   
   of ersatz Israel of biblical prophesy. The problem for the USA as   
   terrorist state and would be empire, is that religious terror never   
   ends without the total annihilation of the competitor.   
      
   Attempting to manufacture a reality according to ideals that can never   
   be realized is to program one's social system for destruction by   
   exhaustion. There is no problem with the survival of a secular empire   
   given that it pursues goals that are attainable.   
      
   The "so what" for America is whether its social system has the   
   capacity of making the secular transformation necessary to understand   
   the limitation of  "terror" as a political weapon-  before it's too   
   late.   
      
   The world knows all about America's high stakes plan "A" and the   
   extensive role "terror" as a weapon plays in it, but is America   
   capable of creating a plan "B" to reign terror in?   
      
   Dev Carter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)