Friday, July 25, 2008

Greatest Threat? The Republical Party?

For some time I have felt like Jeremiah.

I have been fearing our country, and our world led by our country, are creating a wreck of inesimable proportions. As no one else seems to think so I have tended to wonder if I was just being over-dramatic. Am I merely depressed? Given that most of my friends seem unable to internalize the scale of the problem our country and our world faces, or even some of them seem completely unaware, I have tried to scale back my expressions of alarm.

So the new post on Information Clearing House has gotten my attention. A Republican, Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review, is saying that “The Greatest Threat America Has Ever Faced” is the neoconservative controlled Republican Party. That's scarry.

He doesn't even list all the issues that seem to me salient for our time. The one thing he makes clear is that the neoconservative Republicans have created a huge mess, and emphasizes their disinterest in the Constitution. On that he would know better than I. But he seems to assume his readers know that there are broader issues of concern: that the situation in the Middle East -South Asia -Central Asia is profoundly dangerous, that global warming is real and almost beyond recovery, etc.

He makes me feel I might be sane after all. Is there anyone out there listening?

[click on the title for a link to the article.]




2 comments:

JoshSN said...

Roberts has been writing on the anti-green, basically Marxist site CounterPunch.org for years.

Although I mostly am interested in what he has done, he definitely sometimes goes off the deep end, although examples of this elude me at the current moment.

Anonymous said...

Your quite right to be alarmed, your American Corporations and the American ruling class are intent on taking us all to hell in a handcart.

Read Professor Chomsky, he has been detailing the high crimes and misdemeanours of the US ruling caste for the past 40 years.

From operation phoenix in Vietnam, Agent Orange, Naplam to the destruction of Nicuragua, the rape of El Salvador the bloodbath formerly known as Iraq and the destruction of the environment.