Thursday, May 20, 2004
All this however comes about as far as what is the US in fact is. The US is by far as we have seen with the sniper shooting in Virginia is a democratic society but more importantly a democratic culture as well. The snipers Malvo and Mohammed were able to shut down a major metropolitan area by going after people who were far from being famous politicians, the affluent or even celebrities. They were just everyday ordinary citizens. Yet this shooting opens the floodgates to other avenues including what I call because as one of the main causes or consequences of the World Trade Center attack a post-institutional effect in which case though the structure might be in place but a society that feeds and builds its identity on the 9 to 5 workday, going to church every Sunday, and what you have. The other factor that plays in what makes a America a democratic culture is her post-Soviet approach to democratic 'equality' is based on the notion of 'democratic talents' as opposed to 'aristocratic talents' from John Rawls famous book 'A Theory of Justice.' When you watch Reality TV shows, all of which is nothing more than a frail attempt to import and remedy societal shortcomings. (You can also read how I will come about this conclusion a'priori speaking in Judith N. Shklar's book "Redeeming American Political Thought" ed. by Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson(1998)Chapter 8 titled 'Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty in the United States'.)
Thus if we can easily assert that not only America is a 'democratic culture' we can go right ahead and look at America foriegn policy as being something that propagates the universality of it. The human rights abuse scandal at any rate comes at a time when the Al Queda movement is growing faster and larger due to a post-institutional structure known as the internet. It is also the fact that Al Queada ability from a Neitschean way of looking at things are able to trounce America morally. Therefore, any factions with in Iraq are bound to grow stronger themselves and undermine what initiative to be taken to consider what 'state' Iraq will be now that Saddam Hussein is no longer in power. The same way that Al Queda is doing damage worldwide in places in Spain and bound as we have seen in Jordan which more than likely be events around the world that will no doubt be greater than that of the September 11th 2001 attack will more than likely occur itself in Iraq and other remote parts of the world. If that is so then there is no reason to deny the fact that faction groups in parts of Iraq will morally and physically to a point defeat, if nor merely drive America out of Baghdad. The reason for this is that one is that the way wars are being fought. Wars of the future will be armyless but be more or less reminiscent of high tech knights;however, with a lot of force to do more damages than any other previous world or global conflict. Think of nanno suits being designed by the army. And the huge proliferation of weapons of mass destruction including chemical, biological and even conventional tools being easily transferred to varying regions of the world. The way wars are being increasingly fought and the way legitamete moral thinking taking place will hit hard the US with the abuse scandal in Iraq.