Embracing the dark side for their galactic ambitionsWhen
Bill Kristol watches
Star Wars movies, he roots for the Galactic Empire. The leading neocon recently caused a social media
disturbance in the Force when he tweeted this predilection for the Dark Side following the debut of the final trailer for
Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Kristol sees the Empire as basically a galaxy-wide extrapolation of what he has long wanted the US to have over the Earth: what he has termed "benevolent global hegemony."
Kristol, founder and editor of neocon flagship magazine
The Weekly Standard, responded to scandalized critics by linking to a 2002 essay from the
Standard's blog that justifies even the worst of Darth Vader's atrocities. In "
The Case for the Empire," Jonathan V. Last made a Kristolian argument that you can't make a "benevolent hegemony" omelet without breaking a few eggs.
And what if those broken eggs are civilians, like Luke Skywalker's uncle and aunt who were gunned down by Imperial Stormtroopers in their home on the Middle Eastern-looking arid planet of Tatooine (filmed on location in Tunisia)? Well, as Last sincerely argued, Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru hid Luke and harbored the fugitive droids R2D2 and C3P0; so they were "traitors" who were aiding the rebellion and deserved to be field-executed.
A year after Kristol published Last's essay, large numbers of civilians were killed by American Imperial Stormtroopers in their actual Middle Eastern arid homeland of Iraq, thanks largely in part to the direct influence of neocons like Kristol and Last.
Comment: The Empire of chaos is quickly loosing influence all around the Middle East due to Russia's stand against terrorism. The US' illegal actions are becoming more and more exposed within the international community. Countries like Iraq, who have been abused and terrorized by the United States for well over a decade, are within their full right to say, "Enough!"