The Center Cannot Hold: The Bush Regime in Crisis

[bemildred]

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The Bush regime and the Republicans are in profound danger on other fronts as well. Following the lead of imperialist strategists from Democrat Zbignew Brzezinski to the Project for a New American Century, the regime committed itself to a plan of conquest in the Middle East and Central Asia, and to a fascistic program of political and racial repression at home, all under the rubric of a “war on terror.”

Bush apparently took Brzezinski literally when he warned in The Grand Chessboard, his 1997 call for a US global hegemony: “It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation.“

The Bush crew determined, in any case, to make the US less “democratic” at “home,” and to launch a series of pre-planned wars for global dominance abroad.

Deeply hated by people everywhere, on the verge of losing power in the House and Senate, divided over torture, spying, military tribunals, secret prisons, immigration, and plans for war against Iran; mired in loss in Iraq; rocked by scandal and widespread corruption; exposed as mass killers of the innocent in Lebanon and as racists in New Orleans, the Republican regime is finding that its center cannot hold.

The Fourth World

[Dhalgren]

1. K&R!

Great blog!

[yurbud]

2. I think their next war will be stillborn.

Generals and admirals will refuse to start a world war for these assholes.

[Porcupine]

3. This is important reading in light of recent Chavez flamewars..........

where it's clear we have divisions between the progressives and the DLC

The only force poised to fully capitalize on the Republican crisis is the Democratic Party. It’s a crime. Silent during all the long years of torture and “secret” prisons, silent on the coming war against Iran, silent on Iraq – except to say that they know how such things should be done - silent as they played along with developments toward fascism, the Democrats will now pose as upholders of the “real” “American” values.

And it will be a lie.

We really should pay attention to voices like this; perhaps then we could get people to show up and vote.

[Tyo]

4. You're coming across as pretty optimistic

Folks in these parts don't take kindly to talk like that. Pessimism rules here at DU