How to Destroy America
If you
hated this country and were looking for ways to diminish it, punish it or
absolutely destroy it—what would you do?
Among the
things you might consider is to discontinue this country’s War on Terror. Never
mind that the terrorists (oops, members of this administration HATE the use of
that word!) won’t quit fighting; we can unilaterally stand down. How? We can
begin by refusing to even acknowledge that what we have been engaged in since
2003 is really a war on terror but is instead only “An Overseas Contingency
Operation.” We could follow that up by closing down Guantanamo, the prison
where those who have been captured in the act of killing or attempting to kill
Americans have been held. We can put those “lawbreakers” (not prisoners of war;
that sounds too vulgar) in with the rest of the criminals doing time in our
prisons in mainland America, where they will have access to an inexhaustible
number of disaffected people with a penchant for violence. They will be able to
recruit Jihadists to their heart’s content.
Someone wishing ill to America
could travel all over the world making abject apologies on behalf of this
country for every ill known to man, real or imaginary, whether America had
anything to do with creating the problem(s). One could refuse to say anything
positive about America America
You could then set out on a witch hunt to find and punish
those individuals who, following the advice of the Justice Department and legal
advisors of that day, elicited information from captive terrorists by employing
methods that, in retrospect, our new Presidential administration and John
McCain deems “illegal.” You can make certain that these methods of
interrogation, whether they were successful, are never used again—and assure
any future enemies that they will not be placed in any discomfort upon capture.
You can ignore the fact that such a witch hunt as described above will destroy
morale and the effectiveness of the organization charged with the
responsibility of gathering information to keep our country safe. The CIA’s effectiveness has always been
overrated, anyway.
One other initiative we could…
well, abandon, in this instance… is the missile shield that we had agreed to
erect in Poland and Czechoslovakia to help protect those countries from the
possibility of nuclear attack by the rogue nation of Iran. That will accomplish
two or three things. Number one, it will relieve us of the onerous
responsibility of having friends in Eastern Europe .
These countries are not important, anyway—who needs them? Secondly, the shield we were set to erect is
not as good as the one we will have ready in 2018, so why waste time putting in
a system that will only have to be replaced in nine or ten years? This makes
the United States maybe a little more vulnerable to a missile attack by Iran
and Russia—at least, the coastal area of the eastern United States—but
everybody has to pay a price for hope and change.
Pull our
troops out of Iraq early, as the administration has persuaded their Prime
Minister to request, and that war will also end up in abject failure. Not our
fault; we did our part. Then we can hang on in Afghanistan for a few more
months before we give in to the tremendous pressure from the left to get out of
an unpopular war that is none of our business.
Another
thing that you might do is devise a means of increasing this country’s debt
many-fold, under the guise of lifting us out of a terrible depression. The
debts thus accrued can never be paid back, and might well lead to insolvency
for the entire nation, and eventual bankruptcy. For added measure, you could
increase the already onerous tax burden upon this country’s working-class
citizens and small businesses, thereby destroying incentives to achieve and
prosper. To further exacerbate the lack of incentives, devise a program to
redistribute the wealth by taking from the producers and giving that largesse
to the non-producers. This is guaranteed to worsen the already acute problem of
wealth and class envy. In a subtle way, using the government to distribute
‘charity’ (welfare of all stripes) removes the personal involvement in that
process that each of us need not now experience. We will remove from public
discourse any references to personal and family responsibility for ourselves
and our progeny.
We could
announce that we are no longer seeking and drilling for oil in America, that we
do not wish to drill off-shore (we do not want to interfere with the Cubans and
Chinese, who ARE drilling off our shores!), nor do we want to drill for oil in
those pristine northern reaches of Alaska, where there is a vast pool of oil.
We will not allow drilling to be done in the mountain west, where there are
proven oil reserves that would satisfy all this country’s projected needs for
fifty years. No, we will instead say we are going to develop alternative means
of fueling our factories, running our cars and heating our homes. That way,
those nations who have oil (most of which do not like America) can charge us
whatever they wish for their product, and we will have no choice but to pay
that price—until we get our alternative sources up and running say, in 2030 or
so.
Let’s
see—you could insult all your friends (Israel, England, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Ukraine, Germany, Georgia, etc.) and praise what were once your enemies
(terrorists in Palestine, terrorist Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the world
over, Hugo Chavez, etc.) and keep telling Americans, “There is no such thing as
a bad Muslim; it is only that George Bush demonized them and stirred up
hatred. Once they understand that we
like them, they will cease and desist being our enemy. We must make them
understand that we are not at war with them.”
That should
pretty well do it, don’t you think?
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