ACHILLES HEEL: ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IDIOTS’ HIGHWAY TO CENTRAL ASIA - - AND OTHER DISPARATE THOUGHTS

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1. The HIGHWAY to Central Asia’s energy fields preferably should pass through Iran. Right? The Russians and the Chinese seem to be aware of that. The warm welcome they gave Ahmadinejad in Russia, at the recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization conference, tells me that the Russians are, at the very least, suspicious, but more likely aware, that the public frustrations Mousavi-the-reluctant-symbol represents, would result in the HIGHWAY passing through Iran.

2. One problem I have with this blind push for the HIGHWAY expansion is that it very possibly will be to naught. Only that we would’ve ignited civil wars (e.g., Pakistan) and brought so much misery (e.g., Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan) onto the people who are in the HIGHWAY’s path. Each and every hope of a victory, when it doesn’t materialize, redefines America’s power downward.

2.a. Even considering the best of possibilities, from the idiots’ perspective, the fact is that all will be to naught if the home front continues to give in to myths about government’s role in business. In other words, we will need to keep industry at home, while reining in the beloved “expansion” (a nearly impossible mission) if we’re to avert a swift rise in China’s power , and that of Russia . This rise in power should result in the destruction of parts of the HIGHWAY, after having been built.

2.b One way to keep industry at home is to inject government as partner in the manufacturing and finance sectors. Government-as-partner would delay and possibly abort capital’s itch to head to grounds where production is cheapest. This while we introduce the one-hundred-million immigrants to keep production affordable t home. If we’re able to do that, then we’ll be able to keep so much of the dollars here, not resettled as the medium of seller-financing by China. Such - -seller financing - - would be China’s fastest ticket to superpower status.

2.c. But the right wing is dead-set against this option. And likely the right wing will win the day on that. Since even the left-of-center buys into the ideology that government should stay out of business come what may. Let alone be partner! Strangely, or not, we’re up to a “plus ca change...” type of change.

2.d. That is: if we get national health out of the Obama Administration, we will get all that’s gonna come our way in permanent government partnership in business. Which means that, once capital regains its free will, so to speak, and heads to China and cheapest production sites, the health sector in America will once again be one of the few expanding sectors - - in employment.

2.e. In other words, once the illusory sanctity of a private sector reasserts itself, and China re-starts its accumulation of hard currency, and oil spikes high again, both China and Russia would gain power. Accordingly, even if the HIGHWAY had reached the Central Asian states, going through Mousavi’s Iran, China and Russia can finance resource nationalism to the hilt and break our back and that of the Mousavis. The pipelines we would’ve constructed to in part rob Russia of the energy sway it has over Europe would be pumping expensive oil, or rusting-away-and-empty. Older pipelines might get revived once Russia and China are flooded with dollar-denominated accumulated reserves. The seeming antidote - - to raise production so high in Iraq and Mousavi’s Iran to cheapen oil and weaken Russia - - and/or change Russia’s “regime”- - yet again ignores resource nationalism in an idiot-like, straight-line, simpleton calculus.

2.f. All the misery we would’ve visited onto Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine in civil wars and the unleashing of the idiots’ beloved bully, would’ve been (practically) to naught.

2.g. By way of conclusion: Result-oriented foreign policy and protecting America’s power starts and ends at home. Not in Iran, nor in Pakistan. I understand that the idiots are functionally-specific foreign policy idiots and can’t help much on the home front. They have to spin their wheels come what may. They’ve been spinning these wheels to build the HIGHWAY ever since the 1970s. Some progress.

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3. I read that Lebanon’s banks now have over $80 billion in deposits. Most say it’s the money of the immigrants. I doubt it. I think the larger part of that money comes from Iran. As I mentioned a while ago, Iran likely had floated the Lebanese state when the puffing Saudis pulled out. Iran deems its money safe in Lebanon. Iran has Hezbollah and the Shia - - should anyone dare have ideas. Iran is forcing partnership on the idiots both in Lebanon and in Iraq. Floating the Lebanese state is part of that smart scheme.


4. Someone should thank for me former President Carter for being way ahead of all. Any amongst us should be that sharp, courageous, and forward-looking at his age.


5. America needs to go back to its genius: technology. The oil paradigm’s nothing but misery.