Bush policies reflect globalist power grab

The Dubai port controversy has shed new light on the Bush presidency. The concept of foreign ownership of American assets has long been troubling to Americans. U.S. men and women inspired by a spirit of independence and self-reliance cringe at the thought of foreign companies owning and operating what used to be American facilities. Furthermore, the administration has used the word terrorism so often that it is inconceivable that Bush would now ignore the obvious and invite a company backed by the United Arab Emirates – said to be soft on terrorism – to strategically operate on our shores.

Bush's assortment of irrational decisions now litter the landscape. Americans are mystified by the administrations post 9-11 reluctance to secure the borders. The Bush justification is that all people, citizen or not, should have unfettered access to the American job market.

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Similarly, his free-trade thought process concludes that American-made products and those made in foreign lands and sold here, somehow contribute equally to the American economy. This irrational policy has long run counter to American logic and has now resulted in the loss of whole manufacturing industries and the downsizing of American workers by the millions. While the United States swaggers under massive trade deficits, China – a communist totalitarian country and the recipient of American outsourced manufacturing – is heralded as the coming economic powerhouse of the 21st century.

The war in Iraq is evidence of more disturbing policy. Prior to the Bush administration, preemptive strike was unheard of to Americans, who traditionally went to war only to turn back an aggressor. Even the Cold War was resolved through the concept of mutual assured destruction, as each country developed a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons of mass destruction. But in the case of Iraq, the administration used the fear of WMDs, coupled with the urgent need to circumvent the coming high temperatures of the desert, as justification for its rush to war.

Declining corporate and labor tax revenues do not support growing national expenses and the escalating costs of the administration,s now-professed 20-year war. The Bush remedy is to increase the national debt, and worse, to initiate dependence on foreign capital from the growing affluence of Communist China to sustain this war.

It is increasingly clear that the administration's policies are not conservative. They have nothing to do with the Constitution, the preservation of country, freedom, or national security. They instead seem to be restricting freedom and putting the nation at risk.

Bush's policies, and those of Clinton before him, are the product of a globalist mindset. Globalism advocates the free flow of capital, goods, services and labor across all borders. These free-market capitalists consider unfettered global trade as the primary goal. All nations, borders and citizens are expected to yield to their demands. Hence the arm twisting passage of NAFTA, GATT and the WTO.

This ideology is in direct conflict with the notion of a nation defined by its borders, its culture, its economy, its social concerns and the wellbeing of its people. Rather, the globalists seeking capital rewards must, in fact, disregard the will of the people to succeed. Hence, wages are deliberately kept low, health and environmental concerns are ignored, taxes are avoided and rights are overrun. Increased capital is their primary concern.

There is nothing democratic about globalism. It is a power-centered philosophy. It carries no banner, it benefits no country or people; just the opposite – it thrives in totalitarian countries where wages are kept low and production is high. It is a selfish philosophy that causes many others to suffer. It is no surprise that masses of people protest in the streets when the world's globalists meet.

The wars of globalism are not about democracy, national sovereignty or preserving the rights of the individual. These new wars are designed to eliminate restriction to the flow of capital and the consolidation of elite economic power. The people of countries who oppose this economic power grab are its enemy. To remedy such interference, the tactics are economic sanctions or, if still unyielding, preemptive attack.

However, Americans are now aware. They are no longer signing up for war. The cause is not justifiable – it no longer stirs the mind or the soul. Americans in this heralded land of the free, do not respond to an ideology that benefits only the elite. Globalism, like all other totalitarian misadventures will not stand. When history records the demise of this wealth-centered foray, no monument will memorialize it, no song will recall it and no hero will come from its ranks.

Nick Ivanovich