Empire Under O, Part 1

Politicians – if they rise high enough to be in positions in which they become advocates and actors in the propagation of empire – are high-functioning sociopaths: they deceive and manipulate for their own selfish interests, hold no hesitations to act immorally and knowingly cause the suffering and destruction of others. Imagine what our world would look like if serial killers were running countries, corporations, banks and other dominant institutions. I imagine that our world would look exactly at it is, for those who run it have the same claims to moral superiority as your average serial killer; they simply chose another path, and one which leads to the deaths of far more people than any serial killer has ever – or could ever – achieve.

(You can read the rest of "Empire Under Obama [ad-Dajjal], Part 1" @
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/empire-under-obama-part-1-political-language-and-the-mafia-principles-of-international-relations/)

This little gem is buried at the end of the essay:

While the lethality of their [the world's most powerful states] military might is greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at a historic low. To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

If the US is a benign democratic nation, why should we want to kill or control anyone?