End of Summer Politics-The Work of Political Analysis

As the Bush administration winds down it is time to consider the end of summer's politics as well; insects become like little machines with stopped batteries as the temperature drops below freezing wrote Loren Eisley in 'The Star Thrower'. What will happen to Bushite foreign policy when the prestigious Waco region barbeque technician leaves office in January 2009 for one of a clump of unreformed corporatist lackeys to take the wheel of the giveaway of the U.S.A. spree to benefit global corporatism-will the next fearless leader continue the rupturing illegal immigration policy over the Mexican border, continue to hemorrhage the federal current accounts and national debts, keep Americans failing in comparative international education achievements, fail to have a progressive environmental policy, fail to have solid diplomatic skills and international relationships of a more cordial and realistic nature, fail to liberate the nation from reliance on global corporate fossil fuels and automobiles, fail to develop an alternative economic strategy to global oligarchic conquest of the United States, fail to comprehend how to have national and international free trade yet still develop a national policy goal of comparative advantage through radical national proprietary technological and ecological inventiveness and fail to comprehend how a radical reliance on foreign production and financial services are typical cyclical phenomena of a self-destructive end of civilization cycle?

More importantly will the next President fail to comprehend the existential social characteristics of Middle Eastern politics in relation to the interests of the United States? The mirage of Muslim congress with any supposed collateral interests of the United States in the region is a changing sandstorm of power and resources juxtaposed with antipathetic sectarian interests as variable and volatile as would be any political interests predicated to stability within a corporatist macro-economic paradigm. The corporatists will seek to acquire the most resources for-themselves at the least cost and produce the most profit for-themselves. Regional political relationships 'established temporarily will be subverted as soon as outsourcing and comparative cost advantages indicate it useful to do so. Tying U.S. national security to middle-eastern oil may be lubricated with the excuse that it will keep terrorists from following the President or military forces 'home', yet perhaps the President might return to Dubai and consider the issue more fully until Christmas or such time as the drop of camel dung from some Penthouse stable provides the sudden illumination needed for enlightenment.

Iran and Iraq are interesting states for political study especially when considered from the paradigm of how the people of those nations relate to the United States, and of course the ancillary question is what power groups in each nation concerned would seek to pursue the good of the majority instead of the good of the narrow political ruling class. Iran has become a traditional political adversary and bete noir for the Washington D.C. insiders, who refuse to recognize the role that American support for the Shah and his terrorist secret police had in alienating elements of popular Iranian political opinion regarding the United States. Polyanishly American politicians have the idea overmuch that Americans can do no wrong and that Americans have some sort of inalienable moral supremacy rather allowing political policies of an infallible characteristic formerly associated with papal decision making. That popular delusion has at least one significant consequence of providing support for a blundering, blind drunken globalist submission to global corporatism as a sort of American super-economic state that will provide a better way of life for everyone everywhere as they destroy the world environment for corporatist profits. Blind U.S. submission to a hypothetical world-state of American led corporatism-socialism will continue to undermine national security for the United States as it is a raving, toady vassal state of corporatism. Maybe Hillary Clinton-former Wal-Mart board member of the no-union-shops Wal-Mart Corporation can persuade declining unionists that she is labor's best Democratic Party friend as it moves along with all Americans into parity with Chinese, Indian and Mexican workers.

Political Pollyannaism in Presidential candidates’ juggernucks sycophantically with global corporate draining of American economic health. American entry into a more globalist status will mean that the traditional self-destruction of nations historically will become a U.S. trait too, and that the fratricidal wars amongst nations and peoples demonstrated the last five millennium will now wave over the United States as it lets down its guard and becomes more concerned about cheap profits on foreign labor than on discovering new ways to educate and innovate national technical and environmental progress. As the U.S.A. loses detachment, intelligence, independence and strength its ability to dampen global chaos will disappear.

Instead of giving up on U.S. culture and identity and chasing after foreign investments like a camel wandering after a water supply all over the desert a second founding generation of Americans developing their own real estate and opportunities should be built. It is necessary to conceive a national policy that develops individual American inventiveness, independence and prosperity even as global corporations have an awesome, unpatriotic and subversive economic advantage. Can Americans develop a national identity like that of the British or Swiss-composite peoples but a people still and not completely revolving door internment camps for poor people mooned by corporatist overseers and media?

Iran's people probably could get along with many Americans, but the fossil fuel politics and corruption of power elites very likely will mean that belligerency as the preferred mode of international relations will prevail. American politicians seem to prefer middle-eastern royals with oil reserves and find no contradiction in a democratic nation preferring royalty abroad over populist revolutionaries. Such hypocrisy perhaps becomes noticed in time and people learn to distrust an empty rhetoric about democracy bloviated by global corporatist stuffed shirts.

Perhaps Israel is an American friend, yet everyone else in the Middle East may just be a temporary friend or foe of an existential and phenomenal kind.

Withdraw American forces from Iraq in January 2009 and perhaps no civil war or chaos would occur beyond the usual chaos and striving for resource power...maybe the Shia in Iraq and Iran will not fight each other, maybe Saudi Arabia and Iran won't either...maybe all the middle eastern governments will decide that terrorism isn't in their interests, and neither are wars...who can say? The next President needs to be one with experience suing global corporations to limit their predatory traits-a democracy must govern corporations instead of the opposite. The next President should share an intelligent preference for American domestic interests that simultaneously provides an example or model about how to do things right for hypothetical other second world and first world nations that need that sort of thing and believe that it could be found in the U.S.A.