"America is always and necessarily right in all conflicts..."
"...I've concluded that the notion that exposing the
hypocrisy and
lies of the US government will lead to enlightenment is a seriously
wrongheaded strategy. Why? Because the majority of white Americans, the
ones who support the war, realize at some level that they are privileged
relative to the rest of the world, and that this privilege is based on
the hegemony of the US. Therefore, they support whatever it takes to
maintain that hegemony. If anything, they want to be lied to so they
have a means to deny responsibility."
According to this view, the American people are willing partners in the
grand charade. They know that the 'quality of life' they enjoy comes at
the cost of the oppression and slaughter of millions, and that is okay
just so long as Washington and its media whores supply the lies, no
matter how thinly constructed, that allow them to live in a state of
perpetual denial.
I must say that it is difficult to not take such a cynical view. Never
before in history has a nation of people lent its support to such
barbarity based on such poorly constructed lies. Never before in
history has a nation of people lent its support to such barbarity based on lies
that are, in this information age, so easily exposed as lies. And never
before in history has a nation of people lent its support to such
barbarity based on lies told by a leader sorely lacking in
intelligence, charisma, and the ability to speak coherently in public.
If there is, in the future, to be any honest retelling of this
historical period (which assumes, of course, that there will be a
future in which "history" will have any meaning), then scholars will look upon
Americans with a combination of revulsion and bewilderment unrivaled even by
the scorn heaped on the German people after World War II.
How can a nation of people follow a course justified by such poorly
constructed and poorly told lies when the entire world is signaling its
opposition? Professor John McMurtry has spoken of the "silently
regulating principles" of the "ruling group-mind" that afflicts
America. One of those
principals is that "America is always and necessarily
right in all conflicts with other nations or peoples or social forces. This
is not a truth which facts can disprove, because it is true by definition
in the ruling group-mind. Disproving facts are irrelevant or of no
consequence ..."(http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MCM303A.html)