U.S. Declares Permanent War on the World

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Commenter to this article: "The Betrayal"

http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/the-betrayal/?hp&apage=2#comments

Thanks, Timothy Egan.

I’ve liked your writing for a long time, so it seems only fair that you weigh in on the crass usurpation of power by the corporate rich in America — that you speak for the many, many so cynically disenfranchised.

Please know, too, that what Corporate America is so recklessly doing to the U.S., it is similary doing to the world. It’s a class and caste system gone completely amuck. And not only does it hurt people economically, it allows, too, the degradation of schools to corporate agendas, led by the ever-enriching-themselves corporate admin. Talent for American workplaces can always be imported — as can cheap labor, too.

And it spreads war. Because Corporate America — mainly through all its law schools and biz schools — so reduces humanity to such a vulgar agenda, its CEOs, lobbyists, and millionaire Congress people well know that they are doing such massive social damage that this also breeds fear — among the cynically rich, and among their victims. So they must arm all dictators, all stooges, all those allied in their reduced visons — and they do — and the world enjoys the permanent war America has foisted on it.

So sad, so pathetic — but thanks for the decency of your own now weighing in on it.

— Phil Balla (Phil in the mountains of Kyushu, Japan)