The New Iraqi Man experiment is still not producing the right results for the Empire. US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has discovered a new model: The Kurds, who have had some successes against ISIS.
Carter says:
“We are trying to build a force throughout the territory of Iraq, and someday in Syria, that can do what the peshmerga does.”Trying to build? It's been how many years now, and how many billions of dollars?
The Kurds have had success because they are fighting for their own autonomy in the region. They're willing to put it all on the line for their own beliefs.
What are the Iraqi's fighting for? The U.S. and puppet leaders?
And Carter thinks that the Empire can "build" something like the Kurds? As powerful as the U.S. Empire is, it cannot instill belief.
Belief cannot be injected like a shot of Gardasil, or swallowed like a pill. So Big Pharma is powerless in this experiment.
Belief cannot be instilled by providing weapons. The U.S. military-industrial-complex has given the Iraqis the most sophisticated and powerful weapons that U.S. taxpayer money can buy. The Iraqis have (more than once) ran away, leaving those weapons behind for ISIS.
Belief will not be instilled by America's finest bamboozlers either. Bill Kristol and Paul Krugman will not leave their Ivory Towers in the U.S. to go pull the wool over Iraqi eyes. It takes many decades to fully bamboozle a population. It took generations of "professors" to pull it off here in the U.S.
Belief cannot be instilled with Federal Reserve Notes. Oh sure, foreign countries will take them. We all know that. But that just buys false and fleeting loyalty. It merely keeps people from getting restless and rising up.
It's quite ironic that the U.S. is failing at creating The New Iraqi Man. Couldn't they learn from the Soviets?
You cannot force beliefs on anyone, and you cannot change human nature.
Chris Rossini is author of Set Money Free: What Every American Needs To Know About The Federal Reserve. Follow @chrisrossini on Twitter.
I find that liberty engenders much good will
ReplyDeletethat all the force of law can n'er instill.