Bush's China Syndrome: Hypocrisy, History and Twelve Kinds of Hell
Wednesday, 24 May 2006
The sick-making hypocrisy of the Bush Regime is no surprise, of course: it's on display every minute of every day, from Dick Cheney's sermonizing at Russia about democracy on his way to schmooze oil deals out of Central Asian tyrants to Condi Rice's stern lectures to the world about "outside interference in Iraq" to all the Orwellian-tagged policy initiatives and laws ("Clean Air," "Healthy Forests," "PATRIOT Act") whose positive appellations are the opposite of their sinister substance. So common are the lies tumbling out of their mouths that it's hardly worth commenting upon them anymore; it's like pointing out that the sky is blue, or that fire is hot or, more apt in this case perhaps, that fat pigs grunt and waddle.
But sometimes a particularly choice piece of hypocrisy comes along, a wrenching juxtaposition between reality and sham righteousness so sublime in the totality of its horse-hockeyness that it cries out for special recognition. Such was the story in the New York Times today about the Pentagon's latest report on ""Military Power of the People's Republic of China."
The story, delivered with the Times' usual gray deadpan, tells us that the Pentagon is shocked – shocked – to find China is expanding its military establishment! The good militarists ensconced at the heart of the most gigantic, globe-enveloping war machine the world has ever known are puzzled by those inscrutable Orientals, declaring that "China's leadership has not satisfactorily explained its military expansion and long-term goals, even as it modernizes and expands its forces to be able to challenge foreign military forces operating in the region," as the Times puts it.
The story goes on to note that "the [Pentagon] report details trends in China's ability to deny other military forces access across the region by a combination of strike aircraft, submarines and precision missiles. In all, the report argues, these weapons 'have the potential to pose credible threats to modern militaries operating in the region.'"
The report concludes with the stirring words of Pentagon honcho Donald Rumsfeld, quoting his plaintive cry against the yellow peril at an, err, Asian security conference last year: "Why this growing investment? Why these continuing large and expanding arms purchases? Why these continuing robust deployments?" >>>cont
***Chris Floyd***
The sick-making hypocrisy of the Bush Regime is no surprise, of course: it's on display every minute of every day, from Dick Cheney's sermonizing at Russia about democracy on his way to schmooze oil deals out of Central Asian tyrants to Condi Rice's stern lectures to the world about "outside interference in Iraq" to all the Orwellian-tagged policy initiatives and laws ("Clean Air," "Healthy Forests," "PATRIOT Act") whose positive appellations are the opposite of their sinister substance. So common are the lies tumbling out of their mouths that it's hardly worth commenting upon them anymore; it's like pointing out that the sky is blue, or that fire is hot or, more apt in this case perhaps, that fat pigs grunt and waddle.
But sometimes a particularly choice piece of hypocrisy comes along, a wrenching juxtaposition between reality and sham righteousness so sublime in the totality of its horse-hockeyness that it cries out for special recognition. Such was the story in the New York Times today about the Pentagon's latest report on ""Military Power of the People's Republic of China."
The story, delivered with the Times' usual gray deadpan, tells us that the Pentagon is shocked – shocked – to find China is expanding its military establishment! The good militarists ensconced at the heart of the most gigantic, globe-enveloping war machine the world has ever known are puzzled by those inscrutable Orientals, declaring that "China's leadership has not satisfactorily explained its military expansion and long-term goals, even as it modernizes and expands its forces to be able to challenge foreign military forces operating in the region," as the Times puts it.
The story goes on to note that "the [Pentagon] report details trends in China's ability to deny other military forces access across the region by a combination of strike aircraft, submarines and precision missiles. In all, the report argues, these weapons 'have the potential to pose credible threats to modern militaries operating in the region.'"
The report concludes with the stirring words of Pentagon honcho Donald Rumsfeld, quoting his plaintive cry against the yellow peril at an, err, Asian security conference last year: "Why this growing investment? Why these continuing large and expanding arms purchases? Why these continuing robust deployments?" >>>cont
***Chris Floyd***
posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 4:42 AM
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