Hi, just here to chat.
The Neoconservative agenda was pretty clearly laid out in the Project for the New American Century. Of course they want global hegemony. Essentially, they are an imperial power. Whether or not this is bad, per se, well. I don't know. I don't know the minds of the men and women at work bringing this particular harvest to fruit. It certainly doesn't feel particularly beneficial to me myself, but it could be that acquiring all of these resources is to fuel the "American" way of life. (For just a little longer.)
What you are facing in the states: if the material comforts are not presented to the people, they will blame those they deem to be in charge. So power is lost. Having a multiparty system is, to an extent, mitigates this effect, because the parties take the blame, yet the system remains intact. In this sense, it's design is quite ingenious. However, if the loss of comforts becomes sustained, then the system itself will be thrown down. (Comfort is, of course, a relative thing, western society has become accustomed to a high degree of comfort indeed, paired with a powerful sense of entitlement and the belief that the individual is capable of causing change in and of itself, makes an unstable situation at best.)
Oh where was I.
Ah yes. War with Iran. It's about energy, of course. A conflict has been brewing for several decades now. It will surface in some form. Despite our relatively high degree of privilege, none of us likely have any real influence amongst the movers and the shakers. No sense fearing it. Consider this an opportunity to acquaint yourself with death. The sanitization of death in modern society has resulted in a number of problems; perhaps something suitably horrific would be good for the west on a spiritual level. For everyone else, of course, business as usual.
