[NYTr] Neo-Con Idiots Will Bring on the Hegemony of the Cockroach

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[Another blistering piece by Paul Craig Roberts. One can only wonder
how long we can wait to impeach these assholes before a US military
coup offers the planet its the only possible salvation. -NY Transfer]

Counterpunch - Aug 13, 2007
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08132007.html

Where Bush's New Cold War is Headed

The Hegemony of the Cockroach

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

The Russian and Chinese militaries have been conducting a joint
military exercise involving large numbers of troops and combat
vehicles. The former Soviet Republics of Tajikistan, Kyrgkyzstan, and
Kazakstan are participating. Other countries appear ready to join the
military alliance.

This new potent military alliance is a real world response to
neoconservative delusions about US hegemony. Neocons believe that the
US is supreme in the world and can dictate its course. The
neoconservative idiots have actually written papers, read by Russians
and Chinese, about why the US must use its military superiority to
assert hegemony over Russia and China.

Cynics believe that the neocons are just shills, like Bush and Cheney,
for the military-security complex and are paid to restart the cold war
for the sake of the profits of the armaments industry. But the fact is
that the neocons actually believe their delusions about American
hegemony.

Russia and China have now witnessed enough of the Bush administration's
unprovoked aggression in the world to take neocon intentions seriously.
As the US has proven that it cannot occupy the Iraqi city of Baghdad
despite five years of efforts, it most certainly cannot occupy Russia
or China. That means the conflict toward which the neocons are driving
will be a nuclear conflict.

In an attempt to gain the advantage in a nuclear conflict, the neocons
are positioning US anti-ballistic missiles on Soviet borders in Poland
and the Czech Republic. This is an idiotic provocation as the Russians
can eliminate anti-ballistic missiles with cruise missiles. Neocons are
people who desire war, but know nothing about it. Thus, the US failures
in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Reagan and Gorbachev ended the cold war. However, US administrations
after Reagan's have broken the agreements and understandings. The US
gratuitously brought NATO and anti-ballistic missiles to Russia's
borders. The Bush regime has initiated a propaganda war against the
Russian government of V. Putin.

These are gratuitous acts of aggression. Both the Russian and Chinese
governments are trying to devote resources to their economic
development, not to their militaries. Yet, both are being forced by
America's aggressive posture to revamp their militaries.

Americans need to understand what the neocon Bush regime cannot: a
nuclear exchange between the US, Russia, and China would establish the
hegemony of the cockroach.

Today, America's influence in the world is limited to its payments of
tens of millions of dollars to bribed heads of foreign governments,
such as Egypt's and Pakistan's. The Bush regime even thinks that as it
has bought and paid for Musharraf, he will stand aside and permit Bush
to make air strikes inside Pakistan. Is Bush blind to the danger that
he will cause an Islamic revolution within Pakistan that will depose
the US puppet and present the Middle East with an Islamic state armed
with nuclear weapons?

Considering the instabilities and dangers that abound, the aggressive
posture of the Bush regime goes far beyond recklessness. The Bush
regime is the most irresponsibly aggressive regime the world has seen
since Hitler's.

If only a sweet young thing would volunteer to give Bush a blowjob so
that he can be impeached before he leads us to Armageddon.

[Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He
is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at:
PaulCraigRoberts at yahoo.com ]