"You are either with US, or
you are with the terrorists"--G.W.Bush
'You obey our dictates-or else!'-By this proclamation, the U.S. government is attempting to draft junior partners in their plan to dominate the world. Their dream, and our nightmare, is a world where a continuing state of war recasts all the world's relations, giving them a monopoly over the world's sources of oil and preferred access to global markets and laborers. They want to knock down potential adversaries and defiant second rank governments with the U.S. military, crushing hotspots of struggle against oppression, while their junior "partners" do the daily oppression of the people of the world. It's the Afghan model: U.S. ground troops "mopping up" vestiges of Taliban/Al-qaida forces, while British troops "keep the peace" helping prop up the U.S.-supplied prefab government.
Specific and general threats are being made against many countries for future phases of this so-called "War on Terrorism." Iraq, North Korea, and Iran are proclaimed the "axis of evil," while particular threats and moves are made against forces in Colombia, Peru, Nepal, and the Philippines. Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Palestine, Pakistan, Somalia, and even 'parts of Egypt' receive mention!
Grouping Iraq, North Korea, and Iran seems wack; no link between any of them and either the Sept. 11th attacks or the anthrax attacks has been found-and not for lack of trying! Iran does border Iraq, but they fought an eight-year war after Iran kicked out the Shah. An indication of how much concern the U.S. government had about the Iran-Iraq war was reflected in these words of Henry Kissinger, "Too bad they can't both lose." The poison gas used by Iraq in this period was manufactured with material from Europe and the U.S., and the U.S. voiced no criticism of this war crime until it began targeting Saddam Hussein.
Iraq is suffering from ongoing sanctions, imposed after the Gulf War, that kill thousands of children every month. For eleven years now the U.S. has tortured this country, yet the survival of Saddam Hussein is evidence that the U.S. is not all-powerful-sending our rulers into a frenzy, and sufficiently justifies, in their eyes, a military campaign to remove him.
North Korea's inclusion stunned politicians in South Korea. The tension on the peninsula had reached its lowest point in 45 years, but, no matter, there was an important point to make-other countries' interests would take a back seat to those of the U.S.What these three countries do have in common are that they are in strategic regions and they have defied the U.S. in various ways.
The Bush administration is trying to change the wording of a law explicitly prohibiting U.S. intervention in Columbia to allow action there, as part of the "War against Terrorism"-again with no evidence of any link to Al Qaida. They want to bluntly intervene in the civil war on the side of a government that has the worst human rights record on the continent-and call it fighting "terrorism!" In Peru, a car bombing-for which no group has claimed responsibility-inspires Bush to pledge his support to the Peruvian government, "We both know the toil (sic) of terrorism."-a rare slip of the tongue that reflected some truth.
In the Philippines, U.S. forces are "training" the Philippine military-and are free to "return fire if fired upon." Already more troops have been lost there than in Afghanistan.
Bush emphasized that not every military mission would be obvious-and not every strike against terrorism would have a military component. "This war on terror is so unconventional that there will be strikes that people may not see until we tell them that there's been a strike," he said. These statements lay the basis to explain away any exposure of U.S. actions. They're portraying themselves as caring parents to children who don't know what's good for them-and shouldn't know too much.
The U.S. is no longer just threatening "terrorists and those who harbor terrorists." Now, Bush has announced his government is preparing war against a whole new category of countries-any "regimes that seek chemical, biological or nuclear weapons"-and they changed their nuclear policy to allow first-use. It seems any other country is prohibited from increasing their arsenal and the U.S. will use its to prevent them.
It's important to remember the Gulf of Tonkin "incident"-a fairy tale of North Vietnamese aggression manufactured by the U.S. to gain congressional and social acceptance of their plans for domination there. Stay tuned as new "fairy tales" are written for the future.