Multiplicity of problems --- unity of cause: Empire.
WOW! Obama appears to be fighting a multi-front battle on a wide array of domestic and foreign policy problems of almost overwhelming scope --- Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Nuclear Proliferation, Middle East peace, Global Warming, 'the dollar', financial reform, health care, the economy, H1N1 flu, jobs, domestic spying, torture policy, UN investigation of drones, State Department resignations, returning body-bags, etc. etc. ....
But is Obama really fighting all these battles, or is he just posing and pretending to fight? And what is the common thread that links all these seemingly complex and disparate problems?
The reality is the all of these multiple problems domestically and abroad emanate from only one singular cause: EMPIRE --- and the sad truth is that Obama will not even whisper the name of the disease, EMPIRE, which is at the heart, and is the proximate cause, of all of America's foreign and domestic problems.
Obama is blindly touching the front, the back, the truck, and the tail of this elephant of EMPIRE that is killing our country, but he will not (or can not), despite his reputed genius and rhetorical skills, articulate, nor even begin to confront, the whole image of the cancerous elephant of EMPIRE, which is killing our country 'abroad' and 'at home'.
Obama needs to step back from the fog of battling dozens of supposedly different symptoms and recognize the cause of all of our 'sorrows' --- EMPIRE.
Obama needs to re-read and understand Hannah Arendt's prescient warning, from her experience with the Nazi and Soviet Empires, "Empire abroad (always) entails tyranny at home".
There is something hidden, blocking, and obscuring à ‚¬Ëœhope' and à ‚¬Ëœchange' for America, and Obama will not even whisper the name of that hidden thing ---- ruling-elite corporate/financial EMPIRE.
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
