As Lyndon LaRouche declares all out war on the British Empire, one wonders what must be going through Barack Obama's mind... There he sits in the White House, contending with one of the biggest economic crises in U.S. history, meanwhile having inherited two intractable wars. While he is working on easing the U.S. out of the war in Iraq, at the same time he is escalating military operations in Afghanistan. Proverbially, the rationale is that Iraq was Bush's optional diversion from the necessary war which was Afghanistan, now falling to pieces due to the neglect. So, we must refocus...
Very well, let us refocus upon this scene: Afghanistan happens to be old Great Game stomping grounds for the British Empire. Allegedly, one of the central reasons for this is the fact that Afghanistan is the world's number one opium producer. Add to this LaRouche's contention that Her Majesty is the world's number one drug pusher; it would follow that the U.S. military is effectively acting as the world's number one thug.
Now, there has been a minor controversy of late, especially in the UK press, as to why Obama treated Gordon Brown so badly during his recent visit to Washington. In exchange for Brown's gift of a pen holder carved from the wood of the anti-slavery vessel HMS Gannet, Obama pawned off a box set of DVDs (with the wrong regional code!), apparently giving little thought to its contents, being simply the top 25 of the American Film Institute's top 100 films of all time.
We have previously noted the personal reasons why Obama might harbor a dislike for Great Britain, but his motivations might go deeper... When Britain effectively relinquished the greater part of her empire (including Kenya) in the 1940s and '50s, the calculation was perhaps that she would not be entirely letting go, provided she could maintain a "special relationship" with her long former colony able and willing to take on the muscular functions of empire. Britain could then enjoy a comfortable, imperial retirement.
But perhaps President Obama and the U.S. are beginning to find the role a bit tiresome.
With this in mind, we think the Poe-esque horror B-flick Dungeon of Harrow (1962) would have made a nice inclusion in Brown's box set, being about a mad British count DeSade and his African slave & thug Mantis, who, being exiled on a leper island, torture the shipwrecked unfortunates who happen along. With some stretching of the imagination, the film could be viewed as an allegory of the "special relationship." Such an interpretation would not bode well for the U.S. or U.K., but we shall spare the reader the spoilers...
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Interesting to note that the survivors succumb to a skin contagion that leaves them looking much like the "purple-lipped albino" so manifest of late. A decrepitude beyond recall.
Lyndon LaRouche in his recent article, A British, Malthusian Swindle, offers his own literary analogy for the "special relationship," being another adaptation of the infamous Frenchman...
The run-up to, and proceedings of the so-called G-20 conference, have a quality which suggests that all these discussions might have been a parody of the notorious "Marat/Sade" of playwright Peter Weiss.
LaRouchePAC now offers an explanation for the curious discrepancy of manners in Obama's shunning of Brown on the one hand and his ignominious groveling before the Queen and Prince Phillip just a few weeks later. As the recent power-plays in the British Parliament indicate, there is a plot amongst appointees of former PM Tony Blair to topple Brown. Perhaps, then, Obama sides firmly with the Blairite agenda, as LaRouchePAC's Limari Navarrete explains.
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