To the People of the United States,
MY LAST paper looked at how ensuring SAFETY for our NATION from WAR from WITHOUT, has been usurped through the infiltration of our Government, through treaties, by the GLOBAL COMMUNITY.
But the safety of the people of America against dangers from FOREIGN force depends not only on their forbearing to give JUST causes of war to other nations, but also on their placing and continuing themselves in such a situation as not to INVITE hostility or insult; for it need not be observed that there are PRETENDED as well as JUST causes of war.
The question of INVITING HOSTILITY is the one I would like to venture into as we examine our progress to our Current Tribulation. In my former discussion, I focused on the cheapness of our commerce, being that our resources were, as yet, untapped. HOWEVER, as we evaluate today’s situation, where before MONARCHS were the concern of personal motivations to WAR, we find that we have an IDEOLOGY which invites hostility from WITHIN and WITHOUT.
But, independent of these [previous] inducements to war, which are more prevalent in absolute monarchies, but which well deserve our attention, there are others which affect nations as often as kings; and some of them will on examination be found to grow out of our relative situation and circumstances.
AS WE, the United States of America, have been the dominant force for FREEDOM over the past century and have dominated the World Market with our currency established as the Reserve Currency of choice, we have made ourselves SOFT and a TARGET.
In the beginning, we EXPLORED, CREATED and INNOVATED. Today we CONQUER, CONSUME and CONVICT.
UNLIKE the past, when so much of our planet remained unexplored by modern cultures, TODAY, we have no new land to explore, so in order to have access to RESOURCES, we MUST take it by FORCE or by TREATY. When we see an area controlled by an IDEOLOGY different than ours, we work our hardest to CONVERT them to DEMOCRACY. This WORD does not mean what we think it means today.
Let’s take, for example, the FREEDOM loving people in the Geopolitical Region which the British labeled Iraq by MANDATE in 1932. This collection of nomadic peoples did not then, nor do they now first recognize themselves as Iraqi, no more than many hyphenated Americans place American before the hyphen. As the people in “Iraq” did not apply this label to themselves, we have had to work to apply it for them.
WHEN our Military Forces entered the boundary of Iraq in 1991, after the Ba’ath invasion of Kuwait, we approached “Iraqi” Regular Forces in tanks. Behind them were the Republican Guard forces, with their weapons trained on the Regular Forces. Even WITHIN, they did not trust each other. When we confronted the Regular Forces, they surrendered, asked for food, and headed to their Clans. They did not identify enough as Iraqi to lay down their lives to defend the idea of Iraqi. When we, again crossed into the boundary of Iraq after the 2001 attacks on our Once Great Nation, their posture and response was the same.
Their identity was concerning their god, their clan and their family. As a result of this lack of Common Goals and Common Purpose, they fell quickly to our military might.
AFTER almost a decade of working to establish an Iraqi Identity, we extricated ourselves from within their boundaries. We left them trained and equipped to defend the idea of Iraqi.
WHEN the first resistant sect, the self proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), challenged the trained and equipped Iraqi Forces, these same soldiers had the same posture and response. They surrendered and went home.
This is the THREAT that we face WITHIN today in our Once Great Nation. We no longer identify as AMERICAN. We identify as Hyphenated-Americans. In some cases, we no longer identify as Human, rather as Hyphenated-Humans, as well. With this lack of Common Cause and Common Purpose, we have FALLEN.
WE have lost the interest in the WHOLE in favor of the interest of the PARTY.
As the safety of the whole is the interest of the whole, and cannot be provided for without government, either one or more or many, let us inquire whether one good government is not, relative to the object in question, more competent than any other given number whatever.
One government can collect and avail itself of the talents and experience of the ablest men, in whatever part of the Union they may be found. It can move on uniform principles of policy. It can harmonize, assimilate, and protect the several parts and members, and extend the benefit of its foresight and precautions to each. In the formation of treaties, it will regard the interest of the whole, and the particular interests of the parts as connected with that of the whole.
This only applies to individual NATIONS, not to a GLOBAL COMMUNITY. WE have tried for the past 60+ years to operate through the United Nations a GLOBAL COMMUNITY of self-interested Nations, only to discover that when one needed defending, it was our burden to provide the protective force required. We have observed how attempting to establish a Common Global Cause and Common Global Purpose, we continually fail.
The burden of each Common Cause has had a portion of the Global Community who MUST PAY THE PRICE.
WITHIN, we have pitted one State against the Other based on perception of Political Parties, lumping the entire State to ONE Party or the Other, when in fact the IDEOLOGIES WITHIN the State are as varied as their are communities in the State.
This DIVISION, encouraged by our National Government “Leaders,” creates a lack of loyalty like the Iraqi Regular Forces. WE NO LONGER have the resolve to stand up for the Common Cause and Common Purpose that UNITED US in the past.
The same observation arises today, as it did in my previous discussion so long ago:
But whatever may be our situation, whether firmly united under one national government, or split into a number of confederacies, certain it is, that foreign nations will know and view it exactly as it is; and they will act toward us accordingly. If they see that our national government is efficient and well administered, our trade prudently regulated, our militia properly organized and disciplined, our resources and finances discreetly managed, our credit re-established, our people free, contented, and united, they will be much more disposed to cultivate our friendship than provoke our resentment.
If, on the other hand, they find us either destitute of an effectual government (each State doing right or wrong, as to its rulers may seem convenient), or split into three or four independent and probably discordant republics or confederacies, one inclining to Britain, another to [China], and a third to [Russia], and perhaps played off against each other by the three, what a poor, pitiful figure will America make in their eyes! How liable would she become not only to their contempt but to their outrage, and how soon would dear-bought experience proclaim that when a people or family so divide, it never fails to be against themselves.
DIVIDED, we are VULNERABLE!
PUBLIUS