The location of the fiasco of the Israeli raid on the Gaza humanitarian relief flotilla being so close to Megiddo made me think of Armageddon, the wet dream of some of the looneys in the Bush administration. Could they have been right and could all that is happening now be but a prelude to what they believed they they set in motion? Far fetched? Probably, but I thought I would explore it a bit in this Diary.
The near and middle east.
As I see it, and mentioned in my prior Diary, the recent botched Israeli military action against the Gaza humanitarian relief flotilla is further evidence that the vaunted strategic and tactical brilliance of the Israeli general staff is no more. No more Moshe Dayans, no more Six Day wars.
What we may have now is evidence that the Israeli military may not be much better than any other poorly led force in the area. Like all poorly led armed forces they would become prone to adventurism and error.
What would happen, should the Israeli government seeking to regain its martial luster after being exposed by the most recent action as being somewhat less than omnipotent, embark on another ill-conceived venture and loses? Is the Unites States then obligated to come to rescue it from its folly and if so what then?
Wars and more wars.
Have we so abandoned control of our destiny to the military industrial complex that we can no longer stop their thirst for profit and continue to pay the tribute they demand with the blood of our sons and daughters. If so, what then?
Climate change.
Another highway to Armageddon constructed within the Bush administration was created by their war on the reality of global warming and climate change that has made it almost impossible even today to come to grips with the problem, Are the forces of reaction that they unleashed too strong? Is it too late?
It may be. Forget all the other impacts of global warming, climate changes, ocean current displacement, species relocations and extinctions, sea level rise and the rest but focus only on the potential melting of the siberian ice sheet and the canadian permafrost and the release of the heat trapping gasses contained therein. If that happens, then chances are it does not matter if we all stop driving and using fossil fuels or stop eating meat or whatever else we should stop doing. We would have probably passed the tipping point and there would not be much we can do but watch it run its course over the next few hundred years or so, if we are still here to do so.
Some optimists may think that at that point the nations of the world would come to their senses and launch a Manhattan type project to save itself. Unfortunately in that case, our society may have already committed ourselves to turning to those very industries that got us here in the first place, like we did to BP in the oil spill. And just like in the case of BP, they will choose the technologies that produce the greatest profits for them at the lowest cost and as a result would probably not work. What then?
The economy.
How about our economy? Have those evil spirits in the Bush administration so managed to transfer power and wealth to those determined to fight for its control that they destroy that which they so covet? They recently almost succeeded in wrecking the worlds economy. Will they be allowed to continue to range free and ravenous. It certainly seems so. If so, what then?
What then?
On these and many of the other issues have those monstrous moles gotten us to the point where even the best intentioned administration is powerless as on so many issues the Obama administration appears to be?
If so, what then?