The Frankenstein analogy is horrifically appropriate. The capitalists have tried to patch together an unnatural economy. It's not driven by the people toward the better interests of the society. It's driven by the mad ambition, ego, and greed of capitalists to fabricate markets, cultivate mass addictions, take control of civic institutions, enslave the people, and perpetrate war without end. The economy is the monster. The capitalist is the doctor.

To understand what is happening in the world, we would need to know a little about history, but our mainstream media rarely talks about history.

In fact, our monopoly cable lineup only offers one history channel and it usually focuses on the war and violence we face rather than on the war and violence we support and create.

Here are a list of despots that the US supported and supports now:

Saudi Monarchy
Israel's Apartheid regime
Saddam Hussein
Shah of Iran
Musharaf
Taliban(when it was the Mujaheedin)
The warlords in Afghanistan
The Leader of Uzbekistan
The monarchies in the ME
Idi Amin
Noriega
Pinochet
The military leaders involved in the coup against Chavez
Bush's grandfather's support of the Nazi regime
and some others that I can't recall right now...

It speaks volumes of my opinion of this crew in the White House that I doubt they'd feel any guilt over the monsters they've created. Instead I picture them sitting by the windows as the butler hands them martinis and they sit back and enjoy the show of the monster killing off the peasants.

Of course, they'd use the presence of the monster to triple the number of hired goons they employ as guards and muscle. And they'd insist on a giant surveillance program called the Monster Tracking and Detection Program (MONTDEP). You'd have to look closely to notice that the hired goons main job is to keep the peasants in line and the main job of MONTDEP is to monitor the peasants for any sign of unrest, despite all the phony rhetoric about the need to protect the peasants from the monsters.

The final non-chorus verse of "Frankenstein" by Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer comes to mind: "He turns his back on his own creation/Chaos ensues, the innocent die/Who's the monster? Who's the victim?"

Ah, Frankenbush foreign policy. It's good when complexity can be reduced to one word. FRANKENBUSH

At the end of Universal's original 1931 "Frankenstein", the Monster (seemingly) burns to death on a windmill. Look closely nowadays and you'll see an old man with a white beard and a red, white and blue top hat and suit screaming on the windmill's balustrade while the flames lick at his body. Meanwhile, George Wanker Bush, aka Dr. Frankenstoned, sniffs the cocaine of his "legacy" and proclaims everything's hunky dory. And the American people, like the screaming villagers at the base of the burning windmill, cheer on their own demise. Since the next president will probably be yet another Republican, we can look forward to "The Bride of George Wanker Bush". But who's going to have the money to pay the price of admission?

The "monsters" and resulting monstrous problems are continuously created by the CIA. Osama Bin Ladin was created by the CIA to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. The entire history of the CIA of covert implementation of foreign policies that are so corrupt and counter-productive that they would never gain public approval. Policies that try to impose U.S. imperial interests, driven by a failing economy now unable to generate sufficient profit to our ruling elite or compete in the global market.
Check out the stories in Global Research in Canada for many stories of what is really happening. For example:

Anglo-American Ambitions behind the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the Destabilization of Pakistan
by Larry Chin
Global Research, December 29, 2007

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7699

Corporate Personhood = Frankenstein monster...
it's alive. it's alive! (Manic laugh) It's aliiiiive!!!

Some day Iraq will be a healthy democracy, a place for respect for civil liberties, intellectual expression, religious tolerance, women's rights, etc. just like Bush's other strong allies: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

People must keep in mind that these are not 'foreign policy nightmares' for the Bush Administration. In fact it is quite the opposite. If PEACE broke out everywhere, the military industrial complex would be threatened with extinction not to mention all of the security companies, contractors and big oil that profit from these foreign engagements.

Perhaps Dr. Frankenstein in the 21st century would have felt wonderful (rather than guilty) as he would have sold his product for millions to the American Corpocracy. We could then get wonderful updates at the success of our latest field weapon against insurgents everywhere.

Another result of our valuing outward force (military-industrial complex)over internal development (education/culture). Had Bush ever read Frankenstein, perhaps he'd have been clued in ...and the same goes the majority of Americans who were shockingly quiet back in 2003 when the monster was built.

Philistine barbarism is more surely doomed than religious zealotry.

Bush=the millennium bug. Y2K was like a nationwide precognitive dream of horrors to come, although a bit imprecise. At the end of 1999 computers would supposedly no longer be able to handle the new data, resulting in financial chaos and general pandemonium. Remember the empty airports on New Year's Eve 1999?

Of course, nothing happened until the real end of the millennium, December of 2000, with the Republican coup. Numbers were miscounted on a very serious scale, and the Supreme Court handed Bush the victory while he was ahead by an official count of 457 votes in Florida.

All possible horrors followed, and on a scale quite unimaginable in the 90s. Democracy is a precious thing and we are all paying the price for its loss. How sad. I belong to a generation of Europeans in awe of 'America', even with some scepticism about its naivete and consumer worship. Now we see what money can do and it is so sad.

"Iraq was supposed to be a beacon of peace, democracy and stability. Instead…"

I hate when writers say this, it's not true. A blatant lie. What Iraq IS about and was about from the start is redistributing the wealth of America, and Iraq. It's going swimmingly.

To continue to frame criticism like this is to mentally shackle us to the propaganda line. Any truth that might follow such a statement is tainted, at best.

It reinforces the good intentions myth, which is a pillar of the education/indoctrination system. It looks like criticism but is it?
It reminds me of the democrats. Less interested in truth than poking holes in the repubs and positioning themselves as an alternative when they aren't.

A wonderfull analogy - but Shrub's not smart enough to be Frankenstein - that's got to be Cheney. So Dubya must be Igor.

The Frankenstein oligarchy is shielded from remorse and restitution by the "free" market god and Jesus.

To quote a song written about another fictional monster:

History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men

The White House reeks of death and the horror we call congress stalks the streets of the capital unmolested. Worse, there is no end in sight, no end.

The military is the real monster. But America's Frankensteins adore their boys in uniform and can't even begin to think of the abuse visited on young people trained not to do no harm, but to kill.

I agree with MeYouWeUs....
Our foreign policy is nothing more than the money policy of a private cartel....
Follow the money and you see why we're in all these foreign countries creating all this chaos.
Read Ellen Brown's Web of Debt www.webofdebt.com
Wizard of Oz meet Frankenstein!

That's Eye-Gor.

Please be true to history and refrain from telling parables.
First and foremost, the U.S. did not 'create' Osama bin Laden or Al-Qaida. Al-Qaida did not form until AFTER the Soviet-Afghan War. And OBL was not, I repeat, NOT the 'leader' of the afghan resistance. Rather he was a member of a group of ARAB foreign fighters(who had their own money) whose little group was not even a signifigant part of the afghan(read:not arab) resistance. The US was not even in direct control of the operation; a precondition for cooperation was that the US would supply the ISI with money and the ISI would basically have full control over where it went to.

How could the author forget Somalia and Kenya, too? And what about Kosovo and Lebanon?

Massud....yes the US is an angel in all of this. Osama was not supported, nor Saddam, nor Noriega, nor Pinochet, nor the Shah, nor Musharraf, nor etc, etc...get a clue..

The only positive side effect of the Bush administration's foreign policy failures in the Middle East is that it has diverted their attention and resources from Central and South America. Many nations there have made life better for the poor and indigenous people as well as freeing themselves to a great extent of the economic policies forced on them by the WTO and the International Monetary Fund. Many countries, most notably Bolivia, have regained control of their own natural resources. Although there is still a long way to go toward solving many problems, the ball has begun to roll and is gaining momentum.

Love him or hate him, Hugo Chavez has been the leader in this effort to become more independent from Washington, D.C. Many nations are also seeking to form their own economic bloc as well as moving closer to a more united group of nations that are able to work together to solve problems, rather than the fragmented continent of nations past administrations have tried to maintain.

Returning to the Middle East and Asia, sometimes I wonder if the present administration wants the chaos to continue. The only reason this argument doesn't really hold water is that as long as the chaos continues the oil they went to war over will remain in the ground. But then again, it's also keeping oil prices high and this is something I'm sure Big Oil is happy with.

Only Cheney and the oil companies can answer that question. The continuing chaos is also keeping the military industrial complex happy, as more and more money needs to been spent repairing and maintaining the Armed Forces.

The one thing that is certain is that this administration has failed completely in all areas of foreign policy, with their go-it-alone and do what it pleases approach to International Affairs.

COMarc (very first comment) hit the nail on the head. These guys don't care one bit about silly things like healthcare, the death of X hundred thousand Iraqis, etc. And more importantly, they don't care about wealth. They've already got vast wealth, power, and networks around the world. It's not wealth and power, it's what they can do with them, and that's world domination, plain and simple. Sounds too trite and melodramatic to be true. I think too many folks discount the idea of "world domination" as their goal.

How many billions did we just give the Saudis with fighter jets?
30?

Well the one of the Saudi Princess stages an islamic coupe next year and uses these wonderful fighting machines against guess who?

Would love to put the turd as a bulls eys of the first dropped bomb

Only one candidate wants a complete reversal in U.S. foreign policy. At least vote for him in the Republican primaries whenever you can. You will at the very least put a scare into the establishment and make Dems wonder what all these anti-war democrats are going to do in November.

horrified;

No,no,no. I stated a historical fact instead of generalizing. By your logic it seems we shouldn't support ANYONE, as they MAY sometime in the future counter our interests. Name one, ONE person in the world who would never, EVER, EVER oppose the interests of the United States?

Massud…just because it never happened does not mean it's untrue.

Horrified the Afghan Mujaheedin did not become the Taliban. Most layed down their arms after the Soviets exited and a handful of others became the notorious war lords who engaged in the civil war. The Taliban are Pakistan's proxies and not supported by majority of Afghan people of course the majority of the Afghan people don't like the war lords either just to be clear.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB227/index.htm

Massud, you are being disingenious.

Dcbeltway, some remnants of the Mujaheedin became the Taliban . Osama being one of them.

Let's not forget that the support for the Taliban began with the now-saintly Jimmy Carter, who also enthusiastically supported the East Timor and Khmer Rouge genocides. And in 2001 many of us were appalled at Bush's giving them $10 million. We are now arming and funding all kinds of militias, vigilantes and other extremists, and you may depend upon it that it will come back to haunt us. We have also been generously and gleefully arming Pakistan against India, the world's largest democracy. Now we're pouring more of our high-tech weapons into the Middle East and putting them into the hands of extremist, undemocratic, human rights violating despots. We just don't learn.

*deep breath* Horrifed, HOW am I being disingenius? This article that you're supporting is not grounded in actual facts; just trying to create the parable "we make our problems" and whatever.
If tomorrow Chavez committed genocide, some voiced would argue we 'created' him.

None of the current likely next presidents will take the necessary step of publicly renouncing the ENTIRE Bu$h the inferior foreign and domestic policy. Without this step a generation will pass before any real progress can be made. The next several presidents will be putting out fires.

Then there is "Young Frankenstein" (McCain) saying " Let's give it another one hundred years.

Massud, you need to catch up on history, especially US support for despots as mentioned above and its hatred for democracy in energy rich countries. You name one energy rich country that is a US friend and is a democracy. You also name one energy rich country that defies the US imperialism and suddenly became a supporter for AQ/terrorism/WMD/etc etc....They even tried to label Chavez a dictator. Either you are very young or you have your head in the sand. Don't turn around and say what the idiot-in-chief says:"They hate for oyr freedom".

The US could not care less for Rwanda, Burma, NK, Nepal, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, Columbia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, or any other nation that has nothing to offer them energy-wise.

Over the past 20 years how much of US and European manufacturing has been moved to China? And looked at what that's created for us? Now we face the growing possibility of a major confrontation with a China.

I think people really need to wrap their head around the "War without end" concept. If you want to understand the other side... its not about blunders or being ignorant or wanting our gas prices low, or current get rich quick schemes. There's a definite method to the madness... ordo ab chao.

Perpetual war is making a killing $hall we say. Those in the know were never part of you, me and the average joe. Its an illusion in which the dumbed down society helps create as they buy into it. We let private corporations count our votes with absolutely no oversight, we let corporations hold our political debates and decide which candidates are suitable to display... its a farce. Yet even in progressive circles we talk about the primaries as if they are legitimate.

Power pervades every crevasse and that is what you are witnessing... ultimate power is what they are after and you have the choice whether you give it to them. Resist the illusion of tv, resist the illusion of debt, resist the illusion of acceptable moral lawlessness.

I agree with the author when she names the opposition as the monster, and the other side as Frankenstein, with one exception. I don't believe it's just one doctor Frankenstein but a bunch of quack Frankensteins in DC that perpetuate Frankensteinic policies worldwide.

It's time to start adding up all your duplicate body parts and google what the going price for said sale on the world market is. At the end of the day you'll feel like a Republican
.......a lot wealthier but......still a half-ass.

fascist modified "democracy"

It is such a good analogy because Frankenstein was a production, a phantom legend brought to life first in a book and then on the silver screen.

What the American people do not seem to understand is that they have been trained, perhaps by Hollywood, or Freud's cousin Edward Bernays, to live out one fantasy after another. The American nightmare!

For thirty years it was the evil communists behind every sinister,foreign government resisting US exploytation, and they even believe that the actor Ray-gun slayed that dragon, when in fact the Soviet system had little interest in foreign adventures and finally consumed itself from within, much in the same manner as crass-capitalism and neo-imperialism is now doing to itself (hopefully).

The new improved phantom enemy, seen to be endless in guile and pervasive intent, is Muslim-Fundamentalist - global terrorism, an image and a war dreamed up by Zionists and Neocons to last for ever and primed by the very profitable put up false-flag event known as 9-11. The military industrial war machine just cannot stop taking phantom money from phantom budgets creating endless deficits with this mammoth production fed by political slaves. What a resulted!

But the brainwashing, propagandizing, and programming of the sheeple is always satisfied when the "bad guy", obviously a foreigner, preferably of another colour and culture, is tortured, humiliated, and eventually killed and then the galleries burst into cheers of glee when the cavalry comes over the hill riding there wart-hogs into the sunset after the butchery of women and children. "Shock and Aw" , whisps of smoke and glowing phosphorus in the distant background. Isn't America just "the greatest". It has a deadly military response to just about everything. "Cluster bombs are O'k as long as they are used responsibly!" meaning by us or our Israeli friends in Lebanon, in the 72 hours before the cease-fire is announced, also conveniently delayed for that, among other, purpose by Condi.

Yes, what a monster, what a hit, and is there any self deluded realist left in the world at large hoping that this Godzilla will be tamed or de-fanged by the freedom and peace loving American electorate, the few that bother to vote after choosing between the irrelevant criteria presented by the media, a media owned by the same military industrial complex and which owns the same two political parties and all their little talking puppets.

The monster still lives, perhaps if it bleeds enough today through the cut artery on Wall Street, or its heart, the Fed, fails pumping too much more un-secured debt into the system, perhaps the whole monster will burst, collapse and die. Will that end this horror?

Frankenstein is so much like the USA today; a horror built on a delusion brought into living reality terrorizing the earth. Perhaps it can be killed by the delussion of wealth.

Participatory Democracy, how do you like me now?

I get a bit tired with all the condemnations of George Walker Bush, Richard Cheney and all the nice folks they installed in our participatory government. Georgie was elected ( or maybe not) after all, so the real blame for this horrific mess we find ourselves enmired within lies too close to home for some, if not most, of us.

I read with bemused and puzzled frowns how voting for this candidate or that candidate is going to solve everything, and all will be well after we get Bush out of the office to which he was never entitled to occupy. Then , after the savior is installed , we can all go back to whatever it is we do while ignoring our responsibilities to ourselves, our children, our neighbors, our community and our nation. After all, how can any one of us accept responsibility, or , for that matter, fit anything further into our oh so busy schedules? Besides, I blog therefore I am an activist!

I read the comments made through this internet vehicle and wonder where the power of our thoughts and feelings about so many wrongs is taking us. What are our common threads of thought--what kinds of actions come from these thoughtful insights into what's wrong with our country? Where do we go from here? It seems to me that our decisions as citizens contribute to my confusion when I try to pin the monsters in our midst. We get what we pay for. I read Frankenstein with my wife years ago and empathized with the horror story of fear and guilt, and I was not left speculating about its application to our political condition. There is so much tied up in our conversation that is left unsaid. Sometimes, I think we're playing the children's game "telephone" and each time we reach the end we get a new message. I was going to take a clean approach to this year's election: if you're opposed to military adventurism, if you have a conservationist position on our materialist ways; and if you oppose corporate globalization, I can vote for you for president of the united states. What do I do next after this election is over, if none of the candidates meets this minimum requirement? I don't know.

alexnosal: People must keep in mind that these are not 'foreign policy nightmares' for the Bush Administration. In fact it is quite the opposite.

Nail on the head...

The American forces in Afghanistan are Warlords themselves. All be it ones that can call in airstrikes and rain massive destruction and death from above. Since this illegal campaign began opium production has skyrocketed. The taliban had that situation under control. Does this say that our forces condone it's production? There is hard evidence that elements of our own goverment have been involved in the past.
Our elite covet control of the area's resources. Our military is best suited to attacking third world countries that can't defend themselves. We invaded these countries based on the Bush administrations wild conspiracy therories. None of which have been proven. Bin Laden is not even wanted as a suspect for the crime of 9/11 by the FBI. They just made some outrageous accusations and started the wars based on nothing but their own lies.
The true monsters are the ones running this place.

Horrified: Yes, Osama is Saudi and not Afghan though and majority of the Taliban are actually Pakistani Pushtuns. You were referring to the Taliban which is what I responded to.

"I was going to take a clean approach to this year's election: if you're opposed to military adventurism, if you have a conservationist position on our materialist ways; and if you oppose corporate globalization, I can vote for you for president of the united states. What do I do next after this election is over, if none of the candidates meets this minimum requirement? I don't know."

Well said patsie. Most answers will be different. Mine is that I must trust Creator. I can only be responsible for my thoughts and my behavior. I am working to improve my lifeways to better reflect Creators path that has been laid out before me. In short, I do what I can and then trust Creator to handle the rest. I keep my Spirit whole and in balance. I am very aware of the darkness but I balance it with the great beauty of life and nature each day.

Support and train the terrorists, then set them loose. Support and train the dictators then let them bomb the terrorists. What you get is just what the neocons are after: perpetual profits from perpetual war while the people of the middle east kill each other off. Everything is working exactly as planned so far.