The Irony of 'Manchurian Candidate'

I just watched The Manchurian Candidate, starred by Denzel Washington, Meryl Steep and a few other hot stars of Hollywood. But that doesn't fascinate me, or perhaps, that doesn't pull my interest. Instead, what I am more interested is on the conspiracy to take over the White House. Or rather should I say, to control the America and subsequently, the World.

See, by having the world with capital W means to me, this means that the world is no longer a real world. This world, especially in the 21st century, is created by US and its allies. It was in 1990, a new term introduced as The New World Orde during the United Nations meeting in New York. That was a clear message sent by the then President of United States to the whole world that US foreign policy will dominate the world politic for perhaps, till the Armageddon. Since the collapse of USSR, it ended the Cold War between two super powers and since then it has created a void in power balance. Before this, we had an east block and a west block. Both were led by Soviet Union and America respectively. Therefore, it was always in check and balance.

I rememberd in 1962, there was a crisis between USSR and America over the Cuban sea. It was the closest the world could get to the nuclear war. Everybody held their breath. Both administration, Soviet and US which at that time was led by John F Kennedy, tried in many ways to resolve the issue, including a secret negotiation between Robert Kennedy and the Soviet ambassador. If, one of the Soviet submarines accidentally passed the US Naval barricade, the world could end up in the nuclear holocaust and I won't be here in the United States and you won't be reading this blog. But that didn't happen. Krutchev and Kennedy managed to work out on agreement over the Cuban matter by negotiating both their interest on US-owned missile installation in Turkey and possible pre-empt strike from US on Cuba.

What I am trying to potray here is the magnitude of power and influence of US President on the course of world politics and its fate, so to speak. Anybody who becomes the President of the United States is basically holding the power to rule the world. US has the second largest economic after China, US holds most of the advance technology in the world, US secures most of the strategic locations in the world with its mighty military power; Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Qatar), Pacific (Okinawa, South Korea), and Europe (German).

I am becoming more suspicious especially after the presidential election of 2004 - how the Americans chose George W Bush as their president after what he has done to the country; huge deficit, maintain tax break for the wealthy people, hiding the truth from his fellow Americans, diminishing civil liberties through the Patriot Act, infringement of human rights in Guantanamo Bay, violating the Geneva Convention on the treatment of POW, exporting more jobs oversea, increase rate of unemployment etc.

History has proven that George W Bush is not the best candidate to run this country. Previously in his past, he ran many companies and most of them were energy based companies. However, none of the companies succeeded in business. This is reported in Craig Unger's book, House of Bush, House of Saud. If he could not run a small company, how can he manage a country as big as USA? For the 9 first months during President George W Bush first term, Mr. President took a vacation from his office and spent most of the time at his ranch in Texas. So who ran the country? Obviously his Vice President.

Furthermore, he also doesn't have the right attitude and morals to serve this country. Why? Military record showed that he was AWOL for close to 12 months during his service in Texas National Guards. Not only that, he was also arrested for DUI (drive under influence, major violation of road traffic) in 1976. This is reported in Craig Unger's book, House of Bush, House of Saud. If he could not run a small company, how can he manage a country as big as USA? For the 9 first months during President George W Bush first term, Mr. President took a vacation from his office and spent most of the time at his ranch in Texas. So who ran the country? Obviously his Vice President.

Months before US invaded Iraq, there was a conference in USA for corporations which involve heavily in manufacturing military and defense products, discussing the possible outcome of investing in Iraq. The convention was officiated by no other than the president himself, President George W Bush. Look, Halliburton suddenly gets multimillion dollars contract to rebuild Iraq. For your information, previous CEO of Halliburton is Vice President Dick Cheney. Furthermore, on the first day the US army launched attack on Afghanistan, a US-based oil company named Unocal signed an agreement with its interim 'puppet' president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. Why wait until the US army invaded Afghanistan? (To secure the pipeline built across Afghanistan's land, not to hunt for Osama bin Laden).

It starts to show now that US President is in favor of huge corporation instead of his fellow Americans. This is exactly what the movie The Manchurian Candidate tries to depict. The possibility of 'puppet' president. A powerful one too.

Ooohhh...scary isn't it when we think carefully about this whole thing?