Reply #7: found it - creating chaos to achieve (New World?) order [View All]

[sallydallas124]

One of the many curious things President George W. Bush is quoted as saying, this time in Bob Woodward's book, "Bush at War," is that U.S. strategy in Afghanistan "is to create chaos, to create a vacuum." Out of the chaos and vacuum, good would come. This echoes the Trotskyist belief in the constructive effect of "permanent revolution."

It has another resonance as well, an apocalyptic religious one, of interest as the president is said by some to see his presidency within the context of the biblical narrative of the end of days. He certainly thinks of the United States as the vessel of mankind's salvation.

Woodward ends his book with another quotation from the president, uncomfortably apposite: "We will export death and violence to the four corners of the Earth in defense of our great nation."

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0407-08.html

I'm pretty fascinated by the neocons creating a state of chaos in order to create "goodness." This type of thinking is f'ed up for so many reasons.
It is also very similar to the way the IMF operates. When conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan seem to be raging out of control - remember that it may not necessarily mean the neos have lost control.