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From the Vol.1,No.7 issue of Electronic Intelligence Weekly

YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK:

The Blinded Cyclops Stumbles On

It requires some understanding of the Constitutional institution of the U.S. Presidency, to understand that it has been the U.S. non-Presidency of 2002 to date, which has been the cause of the unbroken chain of disasters being visited on the world from Washington today. At the same time, anyone who may hope to make a difference for the better at this moment of crisis, must first scornfully reject the canard that history is determined by objective laws. History is determined by the intentions of men and women, although often, of course, differently than they might wish it.

Take the misassessments of Colin Powell's recent mission.

Not the least of the reasons Colin Powell was sent on his errand to the Mideast, was to help Powell's enemies get rid of him, after the inevitable wretched failure of his mission. Once the President made it clear that he would refuse to back up his Secretary of State, Powell was in an impossible position.

To say, as some Arabs and others are now saying, "Powell should have done this; Powell could have done that," is wishful thinking. They forget that Powell is working for someone else. In reality, he was in no position to do anything contrary to his assigned mission.

Now, Powell's political existence is jeopardized by the fact that he is working for Bush, who is showing signs of madness. Powell is seen as a slave of Bush. You might as well refer to the State Department headquarters as "Uncle Tom's Cabin," instead of Foggy Bottom!

But the real question is: Is, or is not George Bush a de facto lame duck? If you fail to ask that question, you are sure to get all the wrong answers.

Take another tragic misassessment. Those Pentagon generals who privately reject the insanity of Bush's "party line" that Sharon is a "man of peace," but who do nothing, are like the saner circles in Europe, who disagree, but won't act. One can see them all saying, years afterwards, "Oh, we didn't like it. But we couldn't do much." They resemble the German generals who waited until July 1944, to try to get rid of Hitler. Nor could those German generals claim that they had waited so long because they were great pacifists. Hadn't they gone along with the mass political murders of 1934?

Nothing short of Bush's going to the Mideast himself, to bang heads and stop the genocide, can forestall the slide towards World War III at this late date. And the damn bastards here who have taken control of the President, will kill him if he does. They're not playing for marbles, you know. Even if they've lost their marbles.

Bush cleared the way for this genocidal war when he put the blame on Arafat. Now, whatever new atrocity Sharon and the IDF dream up, or copy from the Nazis, Bush only says, "Arafat made them do it."

Washington's indifference to mass deaths of unarmed Palestinian civilians, has been rightly compared with its insouciance about civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Whenever that question is raised, Rumsfeld replies insanely that the terrorists who crashed their planes into the Twin Towers, were not worried about civilian casualties. But that answer does not really come from Rumsfeld, and may not reflect Rumsfeld's thinking. It is the "party line" which has come down from the President.

The President is a man of a limited mind. Emotionally and in other ways.

The enemy plays this factor.

What brought us to this pass? The fact that the two "front-runners" in the dip-and-drip derby of the Year 2,000 elections, were both incompetent to hold that office under inevitably unfolding conditions. This reduction of the choice of President to two incompetents, was already foreordained by March 2000, when the list of "leading candidates" was pared down to include only candidates, one of whom was mentally unbalanced and the other mentally incompetent for that office. President Clinton must share the blame for this; he helped bring it about, when he caved in to Al Gore's blackmail.

The Establishment is now seeing the consequences of their decision to install a non-President in power in January 2001. It's not that they chose Bush. They just created the preconditions, by eliminating any possibly qualified candidate, for a non-President to be in office as the present crisis plays out. Now they see the consequences, and some people who are not totally insane are now realizing what a God-awful mess they helped create. They have to face the reality of the decision to make a non-President.

There was the hope that incumbency might have changed George W. Bush. He did surprisingly well for a while, but went over the edge about the end of 2001. Now, it is widely recognized, especially since the President's foolish description of Sharon as "a man of peace," that the President is not fully in charge of himself.

Now, competing groups of wild-eyed fanatics, otherworldly utopians, are inventing policies in order to control the President. Bush signs on to their various nutty policies, by reading them aloud on television, as they appear on his teleprompter.

Lyndon LaRouche described years ago, how the same utopians similarly controlled another, earlier, President of limited mind,--Jimmy Carter,--by making up policies to do it.

In rough paraphrase:

"Why, Mr. President, only last week you made yourself perfectly clear on this question!"

"I did?"

"Yes, you did, sir. And now your enemies have chosen to publicly defy you on just this point. You have to punish them!"

"Yes, I suppose you must be right. How do you think I should go about it?...."

The incumbent is behaving as a tormented drop-out from the third grade of a reform school. He has become a virtually sensory-deprived victim of policies which seem to have been made by an evil teleprompter, all the while the President's father, as if up in the attic, is stamping frantically on the floor above.

Therefore, don't fall for the cheap-shot analyses which say there is some sort of master plan in Washington. There isn't. As the President is totally controlled by conflicting interests, none of which has any relationship to crucial actual issues of national security, the blinded Cyclops stumbles on.