In pursuit of that belief the United States in the 21st Century seeks revolutionary change everywhere and to accomplish that has been willing and continues to be willing to pay very high prices in blood and treasure even unto the risk of nuclear war with those with whom we can truly commit mutual suicide.

Having chosen to misunderstand the preamble to the constitution, and therefore the "purpose" of America, much of our ruling class now profess to believe that it is the purpose of the country to "reform" our society to their taste and to inflict the same norms on the rest of the world. To that end it is held to be more or less self-evident that ancient motivations for international policy are at an end and that all, all of mankind should re-organize itself to our taste.

We are often told (by Barack Obama among others) that our ancestors sought a "more perfect union" in the creation of the United States. The implication is that they sought a worldly and more or less secular utopia. They did not. The contemporary meaning in those words from the constitution of the United States was that the framers sought a more efficient and effective government than that which had existed under the Articles of Confederation. The framers were solely concerned with the practicalities of government in their new country. The "more perfect union" phrase is one of a number of goals listed and is clearly not intended as the governing theme of the Constitution.

The United States was born in political and social revolution. In the Civil War the victors confirmed that destiny and were open in calling their vision divinely purposeful. If you think my assertions untrue, read the words of the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address.

In the course of the daunting task of self creation throughout the late 19th and all of the 20th Centuries that vision of the country's place in history was often submerged beneath a desire for wealth and economic growth that would make the common man a comfortable man.

After World War Two America was for a time a status quo state. Triumph over the USSR and an international stability that would assist in that became its goals, but the zeitgeist of the Cold War is gone now, washed away in the renewal of a collective yearning to lead revolutionary change, change that bolsters self image as secular savior of mankind.

Across the world the US is fostering the notion that history as mankind has known it has died and that humanity has emerged into a broad well lit upland where a socially evolved species will live in a utopian state of grace that has nothing to do with any god that is not called Humanism.

This understanding of self was hatched in hundreds of graduate schools and fostered by academics with little actual knowledge of life "in the hard lane." This understanding calls for a world run on the basis of leveling and "social justice." Almost without notice those twin ideals infiltrated government and the media and along that way an alliance emerged between the political idealists and a virtual army of backwoodsmen, emerged from faith based communities, who have steadily grown in numbers until they dominate elected office in much of the country. These modern devotees of the puritan idea of perfection in all things easily agree with an intelligentsia that seeks its own vision of perfection in life. The details of what utopia may mean in reality grow messy at times but the broad outline of absolute goodness as a goal can be seen in the politically correct discourse that increasingly is the only discourse tolerated by the new America.

In pursuit of our new/old post modern goals we have spread havoc across the world while fostering the revolutionary change that we imagine all mankind eagerly awaits.

- Russia/Ukraine. The NED and the doyenne of neocon missionary work have actively sought regime change in Ukraine and Russia and have not felt the need to disguise their intentions. Can we doubt that POTUS is an active backer of this policy? If he were not, then Nuland would be returned to hanging out with her husband at one or another of their lobbies or think tanks.

- Tunisia, place of martyrdom of the poor green grocer man, the western style democracy sought there hangs by a thread.

- Egypt, sanctified by the hysteria of the mob and western press; that went well did it not? Now Sisi, who owes Saudi Arabia and the other Gulfies a lot, makes menacing noises about intervention in Yemen. Has the Egyptian Army forgotten what happened to them in Yemen fifty years ago? Nasser called it his" Vietnam."

- Libya, I thought that one was a good idea. I was wrong.

- Iraq, she of the two rivers, what a place of sorrows we have made you, a piece of bone wrapped in rags and fought over by pariah dogs.

- Iran, our "leaders" seek desperately for a chance to bomb you rather than make a "grand bargain." Heavens! Not that! You have succeeded to the mantle of villainy in the American mind and so it must be believed that you are guilty of all sins.

- Syria, Assad pleads for a chance to negotiate an end that will not kill him and his own people. Heavens! Not that!

- Saudi Arabia. The Saudi ruling class fears two things; Iran and the Yemenis. We are encouraging the Saudis with their toy ground forces to massively bomb Yemeni cities in a Douhet style effort intended to intimidate people who are not easily intimidated. Nothing could be done that would more closely unite Yemeni factions that have never been united in history.

- Yemen, the fight has not yet begun.

In pursuit of perfection in human society, we are making deserts so that we can call them Peace. pl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_Constitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address