To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (711534 ) 4/23/2013 3:04:07 PM From: longnshort 1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to Top UN Human Rights Official--The US DESERVED the Boston BombingEmail This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook A Commentary on the Marathon Murders Aside from the tensions of the moment, self-scrutiny and mid-course reflections on America’s global role is long overdue. Such a process is crucial both for the sake of the country’s own future security and also in consideration of the wellbeing of others. Such adjustments will eventually come about either as a result of a voluntary process of self-reflection or through the force of unpleasant events. How and when this process of reassessment occurs remains a mystery. Until it does, America’s military prowess and the abiding confidence of its leaders in hard power diplomacy makes the United States a menace to the world and to itself. Such an observation is as true if the more avowedly belligerent Mitt Romney rather than the seemingly dovish Barack Obama was in the White House. Such bipartisan support for maintaining the globe-girdling geopolitics runs deep in the body politic, and is accompanied by the refusal to admit the evidence of national decline. The signature irony is that the more American decline is met by a politics of denial, the more rapid and steep will be the decline, and the more abrupt and risky will be the necessary shrinking of the global leadership role so long played by the United States. We should be asking ourselves at this moment, “How many canaries will have to die before we awaken from our geopolitical fantasy of global domination?” ..As long as Tel Aviv has the compliant ear of the American political establishment, those who wish for peace and justice in the world should not rest easy. And of course in an allusion to his "truther" beliefs, Falk suggest that the United States became a nation of Islamophobes because we believed the "lies" about 9/11/01.Such responses are generally benevolent, especially when compared to the holy war fevers espoused by national leaders, the media, and a vengeful public after the 9/11 attacks that also embraced Islamophobic falsehoods. Maybe America has become more poised in relation to such extremist incidents, but maybe not. It is soon to tell, and the somewhat hysterical Boston dragnet for the remaining at large and alive suspect does suggest that the wounds of 9/11 are far from healed. doubting the official version of 9/11 but he just wanted to fill some holes of unknown information, and that the criticism against him was just the work of "The Lobby" (the Joooooos) trying to silence him from talking about Palestine. Since his comments were captured on tape, it appears that Falk's denial is just another one of those Falk-ing lies.
