November 12, 2012
Second, Mr. Obama is less likely than the grinning neocon he defeated to start a big war in the Middle East. This benefits more people than the English. I have no idea how many Iraqi civilians have died since the Americans invaded their country. It is certainly tens of thousands. It may be hundreds of thousands. An invasion of Iran might lead to millions of dead and millions more wounded. Unless I have misunderstood him, Mr. Obama will do all that he can to resist demands for war with Iran. I believe his opponent would have been ordering his airplane bombers into action within weeks of taking office.
There is something to the claims that America is the Great Satan. America is certainly the New World Order. The global government that so far exists is nothing more than a cartel of national ruling classes. It has no powers of compulsion but is a pretense through which national ruling classes insulate themselves from accountability. It has no tax-gathering or military capacities. It relies largely on American contributions of money and armed strength. It is largely driven by American obsessions. Political correctness, multiculturalism, “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” and the global campaigns to stop people from taking drugs and to abolish every trace of financial privacy”these are American exports. They are forced on the world by millenarian crazies who may have lost their belief in God but who have not lost their fatuous belief that they know how everyone else should be made to live. They are supported by amoral business interests and millions of lunatic semi-Christians who believe that a nuclear war in the Middle East will bring about the conversion of the Jews and the return of Jesus Christ in glory. The French, Germans, Russians, and Chinese have no interest beyond the pursuit of narrow and predictable national interests. It is the Americans who want to either remake the world in their own image or destroy it.
Take away America, and the New World Order becomes a fading ghost. A scaling back of the American federal government and a return to isolationism would be preferable for any number of reasons. Since this is not likely, we must hope that a second Obama presidency will hasten the forces of disintegration. Never mind the arguments about money and an impending federal bankruptcy. Sooner or later, continued mass immigration will bring about a nonwhite majority in many American states. White-majority states may then break away. Five or six mutually hostile successor states will not have the same capacity for global domination as the present United States. Even if there is no breakup, an electorate in which messianic white Protestants and post-Protestants are no longer the majority will eventually bring about radical changes in American foreign policy.
We need to look forward to a world of renewed diversity in which hundreds”or perhaps thousands”of nation states and other groupings can work out their destiny in ways consistent with their moral capacity and historic circumstances. This is not possible when American-backed death squads and remote-control murder weapons can be sent anywhere at the press of a button.
In England, we are oppressed by a ruling class that is effectively a committee of American satraps. The collapse of American hegemony will make possible throwing off that ruling class without having to face down overt American hostility and covert subversion.
If I were an American, I might tremble at the thought of having Mr. Obama back for another four years. He is Tony Blair with a brown face. His plain ambition is to destroy America as it has so far existed. But I am English, so never mind his domestic policies. Though he may hate us for personal reasons, he is the most pro-English president in his country’s history.
