My Plan to Stop the Cycle
Bush squaking on about Iraq again today:
“This country is determined to disarm Iraq and thereby bring peace to the world.”
Talk about putting it in simplistic terms! While the ‘Pres’ likes to follow the ‘Simple is as simple does’ path, I have a slightly more complicated theory for what would bring peace to the world at a much cheaper cost (in terms of lives and money): Lets get the hell out of the Middle East.
I realize that while it sounds simple, it would in fact be a difficult thing to do. It’s about as easy for us to pull away from the region of the world that supplies our oil habit as it is for a suckling pig to pull away from the teet of a big fat sow. But jeez can we just stop trying to tell the rest of the world(at least, those who we’re sure we could crush in military airstrikes) how to live their lives? Many many people around the world, not just the Middle East, blame the U.S. and the western culture we represent for a lot of the problems in the world – and rightfully so. Under the guise of democracy, our government has screwed up countries in South America, Middle America, the Mid-East, Africa, Southeast Asia.. hell, pretty much everywhere except Antarctica, and thats only because we don’t have a bomb to go through 100 feet of solid ice. We’ve also set up – and summarily knocked down – more dictators than I can count on two hands including todays anti-american icon, Saddam. And the sad fact is at this very moment somewhere in the world, a dictator-in-waiting is getting his ‘My First Stinger�’ shipment from Uncle Sam and the training to use it so he can knock off someone we don’t want in power right now. Sadder yet, in ten years we’ll be hearing about him and what a threat to the U.S. he/she is, and how we must ‘disarm them to bring peace to the world’.
We are in a cycle of violence folks, and whether that term is applied to an abusive relationship within a family, or applied to the relationship between the U.S. and the rest of the world family, it carries the same consequences, pain, and outcomes. It also carries the same solution – the cycle of violence must stop for any sort of healing or honest dialog to start.
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“We’ll be rid of the bastard soon enough. And in his place we’ll install a pro-Western dictator, who will be good for us and for you.” ~ Cong. Tom Lantos
I wonder if he means ‘pro-Western’ as in, “He’ll do whatever we tell him to” or ‘pro-Western’ as in, “He believes in the values of Western culture, notably, democracy.”? Of course, if it’s the latter, thats kinda conflicting with the term dictator, but it brings up an obvious point.
For as much as we yammer on about democracy through a regime change, we don’t really want real democracy in a country like Iraq. Real democracy would mean the people would choose their leader, who would more than likely be Anti-american. What we really want is an installed dictator who will kow-tow to the US, shake hands with Bush on CNN, and is protected by the insurgance of his own people by a number of US “Peacekeepers” who will stick around just long enough for the whole thing to fade from public attention. Once the troops are done protecting the pro-US leader, we’ll see a page four story about a coup of the formerly US backed dictator and a page six story several months later about the country returning to where it started in the first place. Sounds a bit redundant, I know.
The last thing I’ll point out is Cong. Lantos mentions that if he gets his way, we’ll be coming after Bashar el-Assad, president of Syria and one of the most outspoken opponents of Jewish expansion into the Palestinian state.Assad’s father, incidentally, was defense minister when Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War between Isreal and Jordan/Syria/Egypt. Alterior motives like Lantos’ really stink to high heaven in my opinion, especially when he’s only advocating the overthrow of one person(Saddam) to go after another(Assad) who just happens to be opposed to the unbridled expansion of Isreal (the congressman is Jewish).The kicker? Syria was allied with the US against Iraq in the early 1990′s ‘Desert Storm’ campaign.
disarm – v:
1. To bomb the living fuck out of, esp. using precise, long-range missle weaponry which allows us to reduce risk of life to nearly zero, enabling us to make the decision to destroy other lives much more easily.
2. Track six on the Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits album.
3. To remove a threat and institute a completely benign government similar to and a puppet of the United States government
Anywho, there are these fuckers on the first floor that keep knocking on my door at 3am and waking me up. I’m gonna go disarm them.
LOL Matty ;)
btw, you need some commas in that there last paragraph.. geeze.. had to read it a few times before it made sense. Oh, maybe that’s the beer. I dunno.
Mich
Doesn’t it all sound familiar… but that’s beside the point. “This country is determined to disarm Iraq and thereby bring peace to the world.” I have an aversion to this statement. Who said Iraq was the only country wrecking the earth? Indeed, who every said Iraq was evil? Has he spared a thought for the people? I’ve met people from Afghanistan and Pakistan over the Internet and they are not, by far, the type of people the press seem to stereotype them as. No way. Do you suppose the average Iraqi is any different? Nope. And George Bush should think again if he thinks he can “bring peace to the world” by disarming Iraq. This statement sounds awfully fishy to me.