Making Reality Conform to Ideology

[kentuck]

There are those in this Administration, George W Bush included, who believe that they can create a different reality in the Middle East and other parts of the world, simply from the power of their belief in their ideology. For example, they believe that they can set up a "democracy" in Iraq and it's success will spread to other parts
of the Mideast. They have discussed this at length in the PNAC documents and other venues. However, their ideology is polluted by the reality they seek to defeat.

They have betrayed their ideological ideas with substitute ideas that they pretend have the same moral clarity and purpose as the ones they propagandize. For example, do they really plan on creating a "democracy" in Iraq? Or do they plan on creating some sort of "Council" that will determine the system of government for
the Iraqi people, so long as it is not a fundamentalist government and is friendly to the American oil interests?

In their ideology, they are "liberators" of the Iraqi people. In reality, in the eyes of the rest of the world, they are invaders. They are aggressors. But in their ideological strategy, the people meet them with flowers and rejoice in their presence. In reality,
they are hated and are ambushed and murdered at every opportunity by those that do not see them as "liberators". This is the environment in which our young troops have been placed. They are fighting for an ideology that is in opposition to their reality.

Where does it end? How soon before the military recognizes that the battlezone is an imaginary one, drawn up by neo-conservatives with less than honorable ideas about taking over a nation and its natural resources, under a pretext of "democracy and freedom"? What happens when ideology and reality collide?

If their intentions had been honorable and their actions had been reflective of their words in their ideological proclamations, they might have been called visionaries. However, to corrupt their own ideology with statements meant to deceive and divert people's attention from their real purposes in Iraq, is to destroy and nullify their own ideology. They do not believe what they profess to believe. Rather than "vision", it is madness.

[pansypoo53219]

1. the little Chimperor

that could.
I believe i can
i believe i can

[rogerashton]

2. This belief,

that will can mold reality without any limits, was central to NAZI ideology.

[el_gato]

3. good one kentuck

If their intentions had been honorable they wouldn't have to lie all the time.

[kentuck]

4. They are fighting reality with a false ideology....

They have changed their reasons for war several times, which indicates there is no large vision involved in their decisions. It is mostly about their ideology which they distort to fit the reality of the moment. And few of us believe it is all for honorable reasons...
How will it end?