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I must agree and disagree with many on this board about the Fascist/Neocon comparisons. While it seems that comparisons between * and Hitler seem valid on the surface, their motives, for the long run, are I believe very different. While Fascism is the Merger of Corporate and State power, it does give both EQUAL power in the governing of the nation. That is where Fascists differ from the Neo-Cons, for the Neo-Cons agenda is actually more insidious and dangerous to the world.
To put it in plain terms, Mussolini and Hitler both fought wars for their percieved national interests. In Mussolini's case to recreate the Roman Empire, and in Hitler's to create the Greater German Third Reich. Bush and the rest of PNAC crowd do not fight for such visions or national interests. While, like those two Fascists, they use Nationalism to forward their agendas, they themselves do not believe in such doctrine. They are using business interests first and foremost to advance an agenda, not for the sole reason of increasing national power, but to increase corporate power to such an extant to make the State subvervient to the Corporation.
In Iraq for instance, many have argued that the war was about oil, that much is true, however the question everyone should ask, is for whom is the oil for? I would postulate that the goal of this administration is to secure what oil is left in Iraq, not for national interests, not even for enriching his oil buddies, but as blackmail for the entire world. If the true reserves in Iraq are under exclusive American and Allied Corporate control, then Bush has a trump card to use to extend the already unprecedented power of American Corporations above ALL nations on the planet, including the United States.
This is what Ike warned us about, private entities mandating not only foriegn policy, but also domestic policy. How powerful is the nation truly when its entire energy structure is dependant on a single source. I believe that Bush wants to wean the United States from 'foriegn' oil, but only that oil from belligerent allies, OPEC. A secure source of oil from Iraq, outside of any government intereference is perferable to having to change the infrastructure of this nation off of the oil well teat. We have not even gotten to the entire weakening of the Armed Forces with their TOTAL dependance on private contractors for both security due to undermanning, and also for infrastructure and support due to outsourcing of military support to private entities, actually only one Kellog Brown and Root.
This leads to the emergence of Corporations as stateless entities that answer to no law that any government can enforce. I think that we have been thinking too petty, Bush would not be the new Dictator of the United States, why should he be when all he has to do is lay the groundwork for faceless entities to take his place? One thing that most Americans have is faith in the free market, at least nationwide. How better to run this country then, instead of having a single dictator, when you could have hundreds, ruling by proxy.
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