[Newspoetry] Collapsing the Twin Towering Parties: what fallouts?

[Donald L Emerick]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-japan-politics.html?todaysheadlines

Japan Scrambles to Contain Fallout From Nuke Remark
By REUTERS
Filed at 7:01 a.m. ET
Excerpt:
``Every once in a while, someone in the LDP [the Liberal-Democratic-Party] says what they really think -- that Japan should rearm and have nuclear weapons,'' said Steven Reed, a political science professor at Chuo University. ``It is not a new departure.''

Naturally, the Chinese [the real Chinese] Government was upset, as were, so I imagine, the governments of immediately neighboring states across the waters.

What does one expect of a world whose leading nation is led by an ideological party of idiots,
which is primarily opposed by a ideally-empty party lacking any sense of worthy convictions?

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1.  Since Georgie-Boy (or is it Boy-George?) took office, the number of major international treaties renounced, revoked, thwarted or reneged upon by the United States now numbers something like ten (10).  (See current issue of Public Concern Foundation publication, Washington Spectator.)  And, to think that we use to accuse Mr. Hitler of insincerity in his treaty policies!  Why, when compared to George, Adolph would be a virtual saint of diplomatic observances!

2.  Since Georgie-Boy took office, India-Pakistan appear to be rapidly headed toward a renewal of their mutual war on terrorism, each regarding the other as a terrorist state, whose wrongful incursions and potentials therefore each has a right to repel and eliminate, as said state deems best.  And, since Georgie-Boy has said that even the US might use nukes in local theatre wars, India and Pakistan has raced to the front to be the first to be ready to try Georgie-Boy's new militarist doctrines.

3.  Israel has chosen to follow Georgie-Boy, by unilaterally deciding, by force of arms, to treat its neighbors as if they had no significance as individual human beings.  Moreover, one never hears the Sharon government mention the principle of lex talionis with respect to the settlements issue, for is Israel wants to keep settlements in the territory that a hypothetical Palestinian state would otherwise occupy, then by the law of lex talionis, it follows that Israel should allow the Palestinians to form an equal number and extent of settlements on the East Bank!  I think my proposal is the easiest way to approach the settlements question at the highly improbable peace conference that may soon happen!

4.  Now, strangely, the ruling party coalition in Japan blurts out (again) its apparently none-too-closely-held secret desire to make Japan into a major military power on the Pacific Rim, again -- and, as a step in that program, it would have to (of course) have super-power weapons, like nukes: to produce them, to possess them, and to trade them.

5.  I could go on, but I am waiting for the coup in Russia -- when the crooked capitalists who have run riot in looting the public assets of state over there meet again with the people's "poetic" justice.  Of course, we should prepare the US for a large number of political émigré's fleeing from "political persecution".  We might even expect emergency military "aid" to be proposed and possibly used to stop the forthcoming coup, as in the abortive 1919 US-Allied war campaign in Russia.  When the weak Russian government collapses, control over the nuclear armory will splinter, and some of the inventory will disappear, as deals already formed become consummated, leading thereafter to the occasional random use of nuclear weapons, around the world, by those who buy such evil weapons.

6.  Also note, Tom Delay and his House Appropriations sub-committee apparently fear the future wrath of God, in the visage of the ICC, for they have pre-authorized the US Military to invade the Netherlands, to seize the Hague and its ICC offices, to free any Americans who may ever be brought to trial there -- because no American should have to live in fear of having to face prosecution as a war criminal!

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In the old days, I would have said (mistakenly) that the Democratic party will naturally address, oppose and rectify all such abuses of reasonable governance, when they are next in office.  But, the Democrats have proven to be, substantively, barren in their moral commitments to any such ideals as I hold.  Moreover, for the pursuit of the now hollowed-out ideals some few Democrats yet possess, I see little except miscraven timidity at their assertions -- excepting, perhaps, by such few people like Paul Wellstone (but not Feingold who outGores Gore as a bore).  I never left the party, but the party left me anyway when it moved steadily further to the right, becoming a spitting image of the Grand Old Party -- a spitting image upon which I spit and upon which I encourage all to cast their saliva, as well.

I still listened to the Democrats when they were telling me that a half-a-loaf is all you should reasonably expect to get.  However, after 8 years under Clinton, and getting nothing more than some flour dust, sans yeast, and, on holidays, getting only some crumbs and crusts, I decided that this half-a-loaf thesis was the biggest lie that I had ever swallowed -- such bilge fills no empty hearts.

The half-a-loaf thesis is like the lesser-of-two-evils thesis: I now refuse to be misled by the illogic that says that, comparatively, the Democrat evils have been less, overall, than the GOP evils -- for I was fooled by the honeyed-words of the Democrats, thinking that people who sounded educated and informed were generally better than people who sound rancorous, mean and hateful (DeLay, Hastert, Lott, and so many others.  But, as each is just a variant of the poisoned pill defenses of capitalism, I now refuse to choose one of the poisoned pills to take, since neither is the antidote for the other.

Am I competent to make moral pronouncements, about what would be wise for you? No.  I only tell you of some of my experiences and some of my thinking.  I leave you to own your own thinking.

Thanks for listening
Donald L Emerick
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