http://www.blackcommentator.com/56/56_cover_french.htmlWe have arrived at a pregnant moment in history. The Pirate’s furious lunge for world domination has come undone in the place it was to have begun. Less than six months after George Bush launched his campaign of Shock and Awe against Iraq and, by extension, the planet, he found himself on national television looking shell-shocked and awful, mouthing words that amounted to a plea for help from the international community. “{W}e cannot let past differences interfere with present duties,” said Bush to the world, visibly at war with his own lips. “Members of the United Nations now have an opportunity, and the responsibility, to assume a broader role in assuring that Iraq becomes a free and democratic nation.”<snip>
Americans are unaccustomed to coherent political speech. Their neurons have been conditioned to respond to the bombast of Manifest Destiny and the code words of racism, leaving the bulk of the population incapable of rational thought. This crippling condition – which also compels white Americans to vote against their own interests – afflicts the U.S. information dispensing classes in full measure. Therefore, this pregnant moment in history will pass unnoticed by much of the American public, who have heard hardly a word of serious analysis of the French position on Iraq, as presented for general evaluation by French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, September 12, in the Paris newspaper-of-record, Le Monde.<snip>
“Everyone’s responsibility is quite clear,” said Colin Powell’s opposite number. De Villepin goes on to make perfectly clear that the world crisis radiating from Iraq is the product of monumental U.S. failure. “We are now facing the real risk of seeing the continuation of a spiral of failure fueled by the lack of a tangible political way forward.” The diplomat then presents France’s own, “Not-American” plan, a UN-centered proposal that would extract the Americans from Iraq before the U.S. can impose strangulating infrastructure “reconstruction,” privatization, military basing and, above all, oil rights agreements on the battered nation.
Packaged as a mere newspaper “article” so as to avoid the limitations of diplomat-speak, the French position is comprehensible to elites and politically attuned readers everywhere – except the Delusional States of America. Although elegantly crafted, the article all but shouts a challenge to U.S. hegemonic ambitions. France, the “Not-American” imperialist, is seizing the moment for which it has long prepared.(so much more -- MUST read!)
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