One Step Closer to Ruling the World

Title: America as Empire

Norman Mailer’s book, Why We Are At War, is a great book that shows the events that resulted in the war. He addresses many points that I agree with. A main point that I completely agreed with was, when the campaign in Afghanistan failed, however, to capture the leading protagonist, even proved unable, indeed, to conclude whether he was alive or dead, the game had to shift. Our White House decided the real pea was under another shell. Not al Qaeda but Iraq. The President and his administration team had no logical reason for the present decisions they made. The decisions were based on political gain, better known as capitalism.

Americans need to know that the men and woman that are in office was put there by the wealthy population. The people in office are only there to make money for themselves, not for the common man. The umbrella under capitalism (political power) is not derived from the people, as it would be thought in democracy but from the people on top to the people on the bottom. It seems that everything in America is for sale, even men’s tormented souls. We see the evidence being established in Iraq by the war profiteers. There is billions of dollars being taken from American to be poured into the war by the same corporations that lobbied for the war. Americans must understand that war is money and American’s money is the power that controls that political process.

I see capitalism or the quest for a global empire displayed everyday in my life by the President Bush and his administrative staff when the try separate middle class and the poor. There is such a struggle for classes, that if the wealthy could they would charge for everything. I see the government going towards privatizing all social programs and trying to run them for profit. This is a cycle that will never end until the people see it for what it really is. The problem is, when the people finally realize what is happening it might be too late. The wealthy, including President Bush might have global control. Where will that leave the middle class and the poor?