Inauguracja Bush'a pokzuje US-nacjonalizm!!!!!

22.01.05, 00:17
A lavish presidential inauguration ended January 20 in Washington, DC, at a
reported cost of 50 million US dollars. Another feature of the celebration is
its war-time atmosphere and tight security. Themed "A celebration for
liberty, A salute to the troops", the inauguration focuses on military
celebrations and events like "general commander's dance". A congressman once
commented it as "a military show rather than a celebration", since security
is at wartime standards with 6,000 army policemen at work.

No banquet under the sun will last forever. After the firework fades away
Washington is still under a dark sky. The sole superpower sends a sense of
inauspiciousness to the world when it's president is inaugurated under
wartime security standards: America, where is you heading for?

Anatol Lieven, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, DC
recently wrote a book entitled "America: Right or Wrong? ¨CAn Anatomy of
American Nationalism". "America keeps a fine house," he observed, "but in its
cellar there lives a demon, whose name is nationalism."

American nationalism displays the following characters. First, it is
originated from the worship to "The American Creed", with liberty, democracy
and the rule of law lying at its core. The Creed takes form along with the
shaping and developing of the country, but has been taken by many Americans
as a truth or standard that "fits all". From a religious perspective, many
Americans indulge themselves in a sense of superiority, believing
themselves "men chosen by God".

Second, due to the nation's superior natural and geographical conditions, and
its history of never being invaded, American nationalism is void of
historical bitterness found in typical nationalism of some other peoples.

Third, American nationalism shows a strong inclination of being self-
centered, a combination of an isolationism tendency (being distain to
associate with other peoples) and a sense of mission to save "the fettered
world" by whatever means it desires. American nationalism rejects nationalism
in other peoples, which doesn't, or unwilling to learn other people's
emotions and thoughts, but adoptes American standards in all cases.

Fourth, in foreign policy, American nationalism takes a form of a mixture of
morality and pragmatism. Sometimes America holds ideology as the benchmark,
deciding a friend or foe by American values, beliefs and political
considerations; sometimes it exercises double standards for the sake of
national interest, showing a certain degree of moral hypocrisy.

In recent years American nationalism has been gathering trend. In the country
some people call for the fourth American Revolution to build a new America
under the banner of nationalism; some claim that the victory of American
nationalism is of global implication, for which America must assume
responsibility as leader of a free world. Judging from Bush's inauguration
theme in 2005, being morally conceited and militarily aggressive are two
major elements of American nationalism.

Lieven believes that American nationalism could hurt the country itself as
well as the world in the deepest way by killing the most rational diplomacy
and causing instability to the international community. As another researcher
from the Carnegie Endowment put it, liberty as the core of American values
will finally become a obstacle to imperialist diplomacy. Or, in the other
way, American nationalism and imperialist tendency are likely to shake or
even ruin the country's central value of liberty.

This article by Huang Qing is carried on the third page of the People's
Daily, Juanry 20, and translated by People's Daily Online
    • Gość: Mars raczej rodzacy sie faszyzm IP: *.177.234.16.adsl.snet.net 22.01.05, 00:20
      made in usa
    • Gość: poinformowany Re: Inauguracja Bush'a pokzuje US-nacjonalizm!!!! IP: *.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com 22.01.05, 02:03
      W and Dostoevsky
      George W. Bush is a man possessed
      by Justin Raimondo


      A fire in the mind – surely, I thought, Bush's speechwriters can't have
      inserted this phrase without knowing its literary origin. It is taken from
      Dostoevsky's novel, The Possessed, a story set in pre-revolutionary Russia in
      which the author chronicles the intrigues of the emerging revolutionary
      movement: one of the main characters is based on the infamous nihilist Sergei
      Nechaev, whose aim is to make a revolution of such destructive power that
      bourgeois society will be completely destroyed. Their strategy is to provoke a
      violent crackdown on all dissent – which will then spark an explosion of
      revolutionary violence. To this purpose the nihilist Peter Verkhovensky worms
      his way into the confidence of Lembke, a provincial governor, convincing him of
      the need to crush rebellious workers who are distributing revolutionary
      leaflets and generally agitating against the government. The result is an
      uprising of murderous anger, a volcanic eruption of nihilistic violence that
      consumes the provincial capital in a great fire. In the end, Governor Lembke
      stands amid the crowd watching his mansion go up in flames:

      --

      This is quite possibly the most worrisome and even frightening speech ever
      delivered by an American president. Its imagery of a fire burning up the world,
      coupled with the incendiary promise to aid "democratic reformers"
      against "outlaw regimes" worldwide, evokes the spirit of another
      murderous "idealism" – one that made the 20th century the age of mass murder.
      As he ranted on and on – "the expansion of freedom in all the
      world"; "Advancing these ideals is the mission that created our nation"; "When
      you stand for your liberty we will stand with you." – Bushed sounded more like
      Trotsky addressing the Red Army than an American president addressing his
      people. The militant, overtly ideological tone had about it a distinctly
      Bolshevik air:

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    • de_oakville Re: Inauguracja Bush'a pokzuje US-nacjonalizm!!!! 22.01.05, 11:30
      >"America keeps a fine house," he observed, "but in its
      > cellar there lives a demon, whose name is nationalism."
      >
      > American nationalism displays the following characters. First, it is
      > originated from the worship to "The American Creed", with liberty, democracy
      > and the rule of law lying at its core. The Creed takes form along with the
      > shaping and developing of the country, but has been taken by many Americans
      > as a truth or standard that "fits all". From a religious perspective, many
      > Americans indulge themselves in a sense of superiority, believing
      > themselves "men chosen by God".

      Amerykanie porownuja siebie z innymi najbardziej znaczacymi narodami na swiecie
      i wyciagaja wnioski:
      1) Wielka Brytania - dawniej ogromne imperium kolonialne panujace nad milionami
      poddanych i czerpiace zyski z eksploatacji tychze
      2) Francja - podobnie jak Wielka Brytania, do tego niezbyt rozsadna i stanowcza
      polityka w przeszlosci
      3) Niemcy - w przeszlosci panstwo totalitarne i niedemokratyczne
      4) Rosja - podobnie jak Niemcy
      5) Japonia - podobnie jak Niemcy
      6) Chiny - kraj, ktory nabral wielkiego znaczenia dopiero niedawno
      7) Indie - podobnie jak Chiny

      A zatem nie ma na swiecie drugiego takiego kraju jak USA. Z pewnoscia ten
      "nacjonalizm" bylby mniejszy gdyby nie 11 wrzesnia. W tym dniu wielu obojetnych
      stalo sie amerykanskimi patriotami. Co do "demona w piwnicy", to Ameryka ma jak
      do tej pory tradycje wygrywania z "demonami". "Demony" w piwnicy ma rowniez
      Europa (ktora nie zawsze z nimi wygrywala). W kazdym razie, jak mawiano dawniej
      "jeden wygra" ("Einer wird gewinnen" (EWG)).
    • kropka_leje Jak sie chce uderzyc psa... 22.01.05, 15:48
      ... to i kij sie zawsze znajdzie.
      Fajnie, jesli mozna byc dumnym z wlasnego kraju. My, Polacy nie bardzo mamy
      powody, Amerykanie na pewno znajda ich o wiele wiecej.
      Zarzut nacjonalizmu w kraju, gdzie etniczna amerykanskosc stanowi mniej niz 5%
      populacji, gdzie wiekszosc ludzi to emigranci, badz ich dzieci, gdzie
      rozwarstwienie etniczne i rasowe jest najwieksze w swiecie wydaje sie co
      najmniej smieszny.
      Owszem, wielu Amerykanow uwaza, ze ich kraj jest najlepszy w kazdej
      dziedzinie. Wielu uwaza tez, ze skoro sa krajem najsilniejszym, ich glos
      powinien liczyc sie w wiekszym stopniu niz glos innych krajow. Mozna z tymi
      rzeczami polemizowac, natomiast nie stawiajmy absurdalnych tez, tylko dlatego
      by uderzyc psa jeszcze raz...
      • Gość: felusiak Czy ktos kiedys rozmawial z francuzem IP: *.nyc.rr.com 22.01.05, 19:52
        Francuzi tez uwazaja, ze ich kraj jest najlepszy na swiecie.
        Trudno posadzac francuzow o nacjonalizm choc niewatpliwie sa ksenofobami.
        Ponadto nacjonalizm sam w sobie jest niebezpieczny wewnatrz ale juz nie na
        zewnatrz kraju. Dopiero przerodzony w szowinizm staje sie zagrozeniem dla panstw
        osciennych.
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