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April 3, 2003
Kristine Stiles
Under Secretary of the Bureau for Surveying the State of Art and the Medial
State of Mind
US Department of Art & Technology
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Assuming the grave responsibility of my post as Under Secretary of the
Bureau for Surveying the State of Art and the Medial State of Mind, I
remain tuned in directly and remotely (visioning) to the media. Last night
I heard/felt a discussion of great consequence, and so pass it dutifully
on.
Last night Joseph Cirincione, Senior Associate and Director of the Non
Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
spoke on the NPR program "Fresh Air." His presentation was followed by a
discussion with William Kristol, editor of the neo-conservative publication
The Weekly Standard. I strongly recommend that everyone listen to the
archived interview with both figures. Cirincione laid out, in very clear
terms, the Defense Policy Guidance Doctrine imagined immediately following
the Gulf War by Paul Wolfowitz. This program was for military premeption
and global aggression.
If we are to become more effective in countering the increasing fascistic
state in which we are participating as citizens - and therefore for which
we are responsible (we held the German population responsible for the
Holocaust, didn't we?) - one of the first points of action is to fully know
the architects of our situation. For those of you, like me, who were not
yet up to speed about the real stragetists of our current global ambitions,
who had been planning this policy long before the illegitimate appointment
of this illegitimate administration by a corrupt Supreme Court, it is high
time we get busy with our homework. I may be preaching to the
knowledgeable, in which case, mia culpa (I was the ignorant one). If
not, you will find this very informative and bone-chilling.
What I'm trying to point out is that we have to go beyond worrying about
the current thug who is administering this policy (Rumsfeld) and the
mastermind CEO thief (Cheney) to those behind the scenes, the architects of
our current practices. A Saudi prince, educated at Princeton, pointed out,
in a recent interview with Barbara Walters, much the same thing. Even
though he refused to name names, he did name the "policy makers" as the
major problem. Of course, we all know it isn't the dauphin himself.
As Cicincioni noted, the current national foreign policy being enacted in
Iraq, belonged to what many felt under the Clinton Administration to be
impossible because of its extreme position. Now this colonialism and
empire is our reality; we are responsible for these people and this war!
May I recommend the following links to give both sides of this story:
www.ceip.org/files/projects/Staff.ASP?p=8 (for the Non Proliferation
Project) and www.weeklystandard.com/ (for the neo-conservative The Weekly
Standard).
On a more personal note - my six-year old cat Pasha has been increasingly
expressing his views about the war. His revenge tactic is spraying all
metalic and ceramic surfaces in the house, a guerrilla warfare gesture that
is extremely successful in disturbing the home front, but having no effect
on the enemy. If anyone knows a special way to calm my military man down -
aside from the Prozac that he is now taking to ease his anxiety - I would
be most grateful.
The war zone is really beginning to smell, and it would appear that the
smell is permanent unless drastic measures are taken immediately. Is there
a cat psychic out there?
Kristine Stiles
Under Secretary of the Bureau for Surveying the State of Art and the Medial
State of Mind
We the Blog Update: Architects of Our Situation
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