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Hoe komt het dat onze politici de meest simpele processen niet begrijpen?

Mike Davis schrijft in het essay The End of American Exceptionalism: ' Who can deny that the principal structural obstacle to any kind of progressive socio-economic change in this region (het Midden- en Nabije-Oosten svh) has been the unholy but seemingly impregnable alliance between U.S. oil companies and arms manufacturers, right-wing Zionism, and the supperrich ruling classes of the Arabian peninsula? Who believes that the House of Said or the playboy emirates of the Gulf would survive for a month without their U.S. military shield? Or that Israel could continue to colonize the West Bank if it faced a U.S. foreign policy that was just as committed to Palestinian as Israeli self-determiniation? [...] As if the anger in the refugee camps and shantytowns is not great enough, we propose to bomb the most broken and pitiful country in the world, Afghanistan. As one of Spain's leading jurists, Baltasar Garzon, recently wrote in the Financial Times, we are commanded to "pledge unlimited support for the hypothetical bombardment of nothing; for the massacre of poverty; and for a breach of the most fundamental logic, which proves that violence begets violence. The spiral of terrorism is fed by the number counted among its victims."'

Waarom kunnen u en ik dit wel beseffen en onze politici niet? Wat mankeren deze mensen toch dat ze denken met geweld altijd hun doel te kunnen bereiken, en dat ze met terreur andere volkeren overtuigen van hun gelijk? Hoe heet een dergelijke psychische stoornis? Vervreemding? Autisme? Machtswellust?