Bush does. Cheney does. Everyone who can get away scot-free when the whole thing goes awry basically.
I love the way our great leaders want to fight each other to the death, but don't want to see a single bullet fired in anger anywhere near them! God forbid, they might get hurt.
And i love the way there are millions of fuckwits ready to die for the leaders who don't have the guts to go and fight themselves.
You are right to warn the US Government against a "revenge" air strike against Afghanistan. However there is a problem with your analysis.
Why are you so certain that bin Laden and the Taliban were responsible for the attack on the WTC and its military wing, the Pentagon? Bin Laden is just the latest in a series of hate-figures which the Western media have used in order to whip-up sentiment behind US foreign policy. Remember when it was (ex CIA agent) Noriega who was supposedly behind all the mayhem in the world? The US "got" Noriega, blasting half of Panama City flat and killing two thousand people in order to do it - but the mayhem continued unabated.
We only have the word of the CIA that its former agent bin Laden is responsible. Hardly a trustworthy source! The USA has created a situation in which it is almost universally hated in the Middle East and many other parts of the world; Afghanistan is a convenient target because it exports heroin rather than oil and has no reliable allies.
Let's consider the example of Lockerbie. We are told that Libya was responsible and 'The West' has achieved the extradition and conviction of a Libyan - but even the relatives of the victims are far from convinced that the this man or the Libyan government had anything to do with it; the US authorities had initially blamed Syria and Iran (who sought revenge for the shooting down of a civilian airliner over the Gulf by a US Navy warship) but changed their minds and needed another scapegoat when they required Syrian and Iranian support for their bombing of Iraq.
"Revenge" attacks or show-trials of alleged terrorists will do nothing to further peace, justice and stability in the world because it is neo-liberal capitalism, led and imposed by the USA, which is responsible for most of the injustice, war and instability on our planet - not to mention destroying our world's resources reckless of the danger to future generations.
By the way, by blaming the Soviet Union for damaging Afghan agriculture and economy you are again letting the USA off the hook. The revolutionary government which overthrew the former feudal regime began a programme of education, healthcare, rights for women and land reform. It had no choice but to look to the USSR for support because the USA was covertly training and arming moslem fundamentalists (via the brutal dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq in Pakistan) to wage war against it. The game plan of the CIA was to destabilise the whole region on the borders of the USSR by unleashing a fundamentalist holy war against communism. Like a lot of the CIA's clever plans, although it was highly successful it has now blown up in their faces. The CIA is now denying that bin Laden was their agent, claiming that he was only raising funds in Pakistan for their Afghan operations.
Be wary of taking ANYTHING at face value from US capitalism's spying, manipulation and spin machine, the CIA. As Steve Biko remarked, "the greatest weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
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18.09.2001 14:03
I love the way our great leaders want to fight each other to the death, but don't want to see a single bullet fired in anger anywhere near them! God forbid, they might get hurt.
And i love the way there are millions of fuckwits ready to die for the leaders who don't have the guts to go and fight themselves.
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19.09.2001 13:38
Why are you so certain that bin Laden and the Taliban were responsible for the attack on the WTC and its military wing, the Pentagon? Bin Laden is just the latest in a series of hate-figures which the Western media have used in order to whip-up sentiment behind US foreign policy. Remember when it was (ex CIA agent) Noriega who was supposedly behind all the mayhem in the world? The US "got" Noriega, blasting half of Panama City flat and killing two thousand people in order to do it - but the mayhem continued unabated.
We only have the word of the CIA that its former agent bin Laden is responsible. Hardly a trustworthy source! The USA has created a situation in which it is almost universally hated in the Middle East and many other parts of the world; Afghanistan is a convenient target because it exports heroin rather than oil and has no reliable allies.
Let's consider the example of Lockerbie. We are told that Libya was responsible and 'The West' has achieved the extradition and conviction of a Libyan - but even the relatives of the victims are far from convinced that the this man or the Libyan government had anything to do with it; the US authorities had initially blamed Syria and Iran (who sought revenge for the shooting down of a civilian airliner over the Gulf by a US Navy warship) but changed their minds and needed another scapegoat when they required Syrian and Iranian support for their bombing of Iraq.
"Revenge" attacks or show-trials of alleged terrorists will do nothing to further peace, justice and stability in the world because it is neo-liberal capitalism, led and imposed by the USA, which is responsible for most of the injustice, war and instability on our planet - not to mention destroying our world's resources reckless of the danger to future generations.
By the way, by blaming the Soviet Union for damaging Afghan agriculture and economy you are again letting the USA off the hook. The revolutionary government which overthrew the former feudal regime began a programme of education, healthcare, rights for women and land reform. It had no choice but to look to the USSR for support because the USA was covertly training and arming moslem fundamentalists (via the brutal dictatorship of Zia Ul Haq in Pakistan) to wage war against it. The game plan of the CIA was to destabilise the whole region on the borders of the USSR by unleashing a fundamentalist holy war against communism. Like a lot of the CIA's clever plans, although it was highly successful it has now blown up in their faces. The CIA is now denying that bin Laden was their agent, claiming that he was only raising funds in Pakistan for their Afghan operations.
Be wary of taking ANYTHING at face value from US capitalism's spying, manipulation and spin machine, the CIA. As Steve Biko remarked, "the greatest weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
Noah