Is the mega fortress US embassy in Iraq justified?

Yes

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by Gary C. Gibson

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The American Embassy in Iraq must be stout to survive the prolific Muslim self-terminator bombings that assail non-Muslim powers. The field of plastic explosives has advanced a lot in the last decade and even semtex and the favorite C-4 are rather mild flavors now days. The United States cannot mire itself in the past explosively speaking nor base it's embassy security on a keystone cops sort of opiate of false security as many seek. There are many that would choose to enhance their own economic prospects by devastating those of the United States who were formerly known to have more borrowed money than sense on how to save it.

In the absence of U.S. troops someday the Iraq embassy needs to be able to survive serious truck bombings if it is to survive. Remember the U.N. mission of Mellow blasted away? Though the Iraqi government may be willing to defend the embassy for a while the serious amount of wealth in the middle east from oil may be able to purchase enough insiders to cooperate in a plan to destroy the embassy that even a few thousand pounds of high-quality military ordinance could be delivered explosively at the gates or through the roof. I would have built it at a different location myself, and had better aquaculture moating effects, more tunnelling and blast wave redirectors walls and so forth that the existing structure, and built it for far less cost. Americans have learned that waste and inefficiency is more, and are bad eco-designers as well as they seek to design out any place for the poor or dissident to exist.

Senator McCain could use a Ralph Nadir as Vice President to combat the invidious take over of the U.S. political system by global corporations. They and OPEC will bring the nation 150 or 200 dollar per barrel oil prices later this year very likely and yet the response of the Federal government to permanently launch the nation on to an independent alternative energy policy is perennial lacking as the toadies of political power seek to consume the crumbs of Communist Chinese manufacturing growth and Persian Gulf Arab oil riches. The nation is lacking common sense and Senator McCain is the sole Presidential candidate in 2008 with the potential to thrash the ignorant, corrupted congress into moving to national alternative energy independent support and home electrical power production. The Senator should he choose to accept the mission could bring the field of ecological economics to prominence in federal budget and resource planning (ref. Herman and Daily 'Ecological Economics-principals and applications') and create a 21st century rational nationalism example for the poor downtrodden nations of the world experiencing the corruption of democracy.

American intervention in the middle-east for the long run to work for continuing dependence on Arab oil supplies requires a solid embassy building to shelter the workers inside from the brutal hate outside that many people have for the United States government and their employees living richly upon tax dollars. Interest upon borrowed money that the people of the United States must pay to keep their government working often are provided by the very Muslim oil royals the United States seeks to protect to fuel their 4 m.p.g. S.U.V.'s back in the daft states of oil dependence and grow corn to burn in internal combustion engines. A very strong embassy is needed in Iraq.

Like the struggles of Athenian democracy with the oligarchy (members of which eventually succeeded in bringing about the execution of the reformer known as Socrates)the United States' democracy is corrupted by an emergent global oligarchy that effectively resembles the communist party elite rulers of the former Soviet Union with a Trotskyite globalist agenda. The worse aspect of that form of corporatist globalism is that it is based on a neoclassical economics that hasn't any value for anything other than market goods-public goods such as forests, the atmosphere, the ocean and land are thought to be infinite and given no value. That blindness means that the injection of natural resources for free into the neoclassical economic stew pot that believes it has transcended the first and second laws of thermodynamics is delusional and set to bring the world's population closer toward mass ecological crisis on the road ahead.

The United States is so complacent regarding Presidential elections that second terms are almost automatic, and they want models to preen before the cameras in order to be fashionable. Senator McCain as a one-term President is enough to combat the tough macro-economic facts of life that challenge the U.S.A. Let's worry about 2012 in 2011 politically, and instead presently get a competent national political agenda for John McCain to ramrod through the congress that will add up to a healthy prosperous nation and national environment in just four years.

An embassy at the crossroads of the old world that is stout and con temporarily bomb-resistant seems a worthwhile venture if the United States intends to continue to serve as a meaningful political player in that region. It might be a better idea to develop super-conducting mega-watt storage loops in U.S. cities to store solar photons collected during the day for night use, yet a survivable political environment for diplomats that won't cave in the first time some 80 mm and 240 mm mortar shell lands on an otherwise flimsy roof is practical. Political victory through war instead of democracy should be discouraged where feasible.

Iraq is the most ancient of civilized regions of the world. The new U.S. embassy will hopefully be serviceable for at least a hundred years in Mesopotamia's 7000 year history of civilized culture. U.S. military and political forces will need to work with disparate political groups to compel rational and dignified liberty and peace to exist for such a time as is possible until the spirit of God deems it appropriate for further measures to be empowered. Personally I would have liked to paint a few rooms or exterior surfaces of the new embassy with Duramax lifetime self-priming paint to see how it does in the desert, yet the miracles of a good paint good like peace and no-growth oriented economic policy that simply brings qualitative progress are sometimes just spring hopes that even so sometimes become actuality.

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