By Mike Rozeff
Pompeo’s speech today,
making 12 demands upon Iran while threatening new sanctions,
exemplifies an America trapped in the empire of its government’s making.
Americans are hostages who have acquiesced. We can only escape our
bonds by ending the empire.
Once an empire expands to take in numerous lands beyond the borders
of its core country, its government (in this case, the U.S.) finds that
its defense requires removing threats and potential threats in a host of
places that are far from the core country, which is America, taking in
these 50 states.
Pompeo says at the outset: “President Trump withdrew from the deal
for a simple reason: it failed to guarantee the safety of the American
people from the risk created by the leaders of the Islamic Republic of
Iran.”
Pompeo misstates the reality. The American people or this country
consisting of the 50 states, faces no safety risk from Iran. It’s the
government, the U.S., that perceives the risk. America is not the U.S.;
the U.S. is the government of America.
Although America, if it were shorn of its empire, and were reduced to
its 50 states, faces no safety risk or military threat whatsoever from
the IRI, when America is viewed as an empire with numerous overseas
allies and obligations, then its leaders sense all sorts of distant
threats and act against them. America is then trapped in the empire
created by its own government, the U.S.
Pompeo and the rest of the foreign policy and defense establishment are men and women of empire.
The Congress is too. This means that they do not act on behalf of
America and Americans. They act on behalf of the empire. They are always
giving us Americans a song and dance that they’re acting for our own
good, our safety.
Iran presents absolutely no threat to America. By the U.S.
empire, however, it’s conceived as a threat to its interests. America is
trapped by its acquiescence to the U.S., which is the government
controlling the empire.
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