It
is the Unlimited Imperialists along the lines of Alexander, Rome,
Napoleon and Hitler who are now in charge of conducting American foreign
policy. The factual circumstances surrounding the outbreaks of both the
First World War and the Second World War currently hover like twin
Swords of Damocles over the heads of all humanity.
Historically, this
latest eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century
is akin to that of America opening the 20th Century by means of the
U.S.-instigated Spanish-American War in 1898. Then the Republican
administration of President William McKinley stole their colonial
empire from Spain in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines;
inflicted a near genocidal war against the Filipino people; while at the
same time illegally annexing the Kingdom of Hawaii and subjecting the
Native Hawaiian people (who call themselves the Kanaka Maoli) to near
genocidal conditions. Additionally, McKinley’s military and colonial
expansion into the Pacific was also designed to secure America’s
economic exploitation of China pursuant to the euphemistic rubric of the
“open door” policy.
But over the next four
decades America’s aggressive presence, policies, and practices in the
“Pacific” would ineluctably pave the way for Japan’s attack at Pearl
Harbor on Dec. 7, 194l, and thus America’s precipitation into the
ongoing Second World War. Today a century later the serial imperial
aggressions launched and menaced by the Republican Bush Jr.
administration and now the Democratic Obama administration are
threatening to set off World War III.