The Eagle has Landed..Again

In 1898 the United States fought a speedy war with Spain...and won. The Philippino people fought alonside the Americans in that war, believing that they were fighting for their own independance from Spanish colonial power. This turned out not to be the case. The United States, rather than "liberating" the Philippinos, simply exchanged ownership of those islands. The United States paid Spain twenty million dollars, under the treaty of Paris, and the Philippino people had new masters and America had a colony.

Mark Twain, the great writer, commentator, humanitarian, and wit was proud of his country in aiding the Philippinos in the struggle for independance. He wrote a friend in 1898 saying, " It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom. It is another sight finer to fight for another man's. And I think this is the first time it has been done."

Later, in 1900, having read carefully the treaty of Paris, he came to a very different conclusion. "..We did not intend to free but to subjugate the people of the Philippines...And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons in any other land."

The United States has not faired well over the years as a colonial master. In attempting to spread the gospel of democracy throughout the American continents, it settled instead for simply promoting any government that would comply with American "ideals" of ownership and free trade. Both Central and South America were populated by dictatorships and Juntas that were compliant with America's economic supremacy in that hemisphere, and, whenever this was challenged by uprising or dictatorial whim, the USA was quick to effect an "intervention". Few countries in that hemisphere escaped the military might of the United States over the last two centuries.

Today America is once again embarked upon a quest to "export democracy" to a troubled and un-enlightened world. But, with no real track record of ever having accomplished such a deed, how do they suppose to make it happen? Or is this just another blundering attempt, covered in flowery rhetoric and slogans designed to pump the blood and fire the heart, that will devolve into America simply accepting any government, whatever its composition and form, that will comply with its' "ideals" ?

If the goal of the present administration is to make the world safer for democracy and to defeat terrorism, then it is doomed to failure. Indeed, it has already failed. Support for the instruments of terror, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, has increased many times over since this ill-fated military adventure began. Distrust and disillusionment with the policies of the United States has increased at the same rate amongst Americas allies as well as in the hearts and minds of those very people that America set out to "liberate".

I, for one, question the motives, means, and objectives of this present administration. I believe that today's conflicts were not initiated in order to "export democracy", but to insure and secure America's supremacy in the modern world. Today's wars are the manipulations of single-minded men who want to cement a new world order. The following video, I think, illuminates their intentions. What do you think?





And the wars go on..and on..and on