The American Imperialist Supremacy Delusion

by Thomas Dahlheimer

Note: On March 2, 2011, the following letter was published in the Mille Lacs Messenger.

Many of the Founding Fathers believed that America was God’s new Israel.

Benjamin Franklin described the independent colony on the East Coast as “God’s new Israel”.  While viewing America as the “new Israel”, Theodore Roosevelt used a biblical story to justify a great American injustice, he wrote: “What were the abominations because of which the Canaanites were destroyed before Joshua, when compared with the abominations of the red savages whose lands they, another chosen people, should in their turn inherit?”

Just as the Israelites fled from an oppressive Egypt to settle in a new land supposedly given unto them by God, so did the early colonial settlers flee from religious persecution to the shores of America – a land they claimed to be
theirs by God’s divine right. This biblical concept is what Manifest Destiny was all about – a belief that it was God’s will for America to stretch from “sea to shining sea”. The U.S. (“God’s new Israel”) justifies the thief of its
aboriginal native people’s lands, “from sea to shining sea”, because Israel of old, as directed by God, took all of the Canaanites’ land.

Planetary Manifest Destiny (PMD) is a similar biblical concept; it’s about the American Empire and its supposed Christian destiny to dominate and rule over the entire world through global expansionism. George Washington once remarked that the thirteen states had “laid the foundation of a great empire.”

In 1900, the U.S. Supreme Court said with regard to U.S. global expansionism, “a false step at this time might prove fatal to what Chief Justice Marshall called the American Empire.”

To maintain and expand their global empire, the U.S. rulers keep over 700 military bases in 130 countries. The U.S. has invaded, backed brutal regimes, and fomented coups against governments that stood in the way of its imperialist interests. The greedy American capitalist-imperialist system has led to ecological and environmental disasters with potentially catastrophic consequences for all life on earth. Never-the-less, the U.S. remains focused on its religious supremacy delusion and consequential oppressive efforts to expand its control across the world. America is trying to fulfilled its supposed God given, Christian destiny of gaining complete domination over the entire world.

Since 9/11, the United States has intensified its mission to do everything in its power to maintain its military supremacy, and it now arrogates the right to preemptive war. Concerning these two pillars, George Soros, the author of the Washington Post article, The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power, wrote: “Taken together, these two pillars support two classes of sovereignty: the sovereignty of the United States, which takes precedence over international treaties and obligations, and the sovereignty of all other states.” Soros also wrote: “There has been an unprecedented rift between the United States and what Donald Rumsfeld calls ‘old Europe,’ because the United States now demands unquestioning subservience from its allies.”

President George W. Bush told an audience of his: “When William Bradford stepped off the Mayflower in 1620, he quoted the words of [the Hebrew prophet] Jeremiah 51:10: ‘Come let us declare in Zion the word of God.’” To this present-day, America, for many Christians, has the adopted names – “Zion” and “Israel”.

Therefore, the following biblical scriptures fuel America’s delusional and oppressive global expansionist, world domination, supremacy agenda. “Arise and thresh, O daughter Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many nations (Micah 4:13)…For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste (Isa 60:12)…Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, and the ends of the earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel (Psalm 2:8-9) …And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom [of Israel which] shall crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever. (Dan 2:44)”

Thomas Dahlheimer
Wahkon, MN