Beginning with Nixon they have followed a plan again and again with disastrous results but to the relative ignorance of the American electorate who are mostly concerned with taxes.
That plan goes like this: Communism is the great evil, so it must be fought at all costs. Fund, support and guide anyone who is vehemently opposed to communism. When the people funded turn out to be whackos or are no longer useful, invent a reason to take them out.
They did it in Afghanistan. They Funded the Mujahadeen because they were in a war with the USSR. The CIA even recruited militant Muslims from around the world to fight alongside them. One of the Muslims who came to fight was a man who'd been kicked out of his homeland Saudi Arabia for being too extreme (!). His initials were OBL. When the Mujahadeen and the militant Muslims later merged into the Taliban the Neocons turned the other way and pretended they'd had nothing to do with it. Only after the militants created the greatest tragedy in American history did they proceed to take them out.
They did it again in the 1980's. Iran and it's neighbor Iraq were in a bitter war. Iran was funded and armed by the Soviets, so guess who the Neocons supported? They even gave chemical and biological weapons to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to use against Iran, and when he later used them against the Kurdish population in his own country -whom GHW Bush had promised to support if they took up arms against Saddam, but when they did left them to twist in the wind- the Neocons again ignored their complicity and filed the event away for later use.
The Soviet Union eventually buckled under its own weight, and the Neocons having no more Red Menace to fight were at a loss as to how to keep the war money flowing, so they changed the "ism" to Terrorism. Now they could both disguise their having created the problem in the first place and wage preemptive wars to counter the real threat they'd created -thus "having their cake and eating it too".
The cast is largely the same -Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice (an expert on Cold War intel), Wolfowitz, the Bush family, and Powell. The list of operatives has also been strangely familiar -Pinochet, Noriega, the Contras, The Mujahadeen, OBL, Saddam Hussein. Who's next? You figure it out.
The true terrorists are in Washington. Lets get rid of them before it's too late.
Coincidentally (?):
This week several sources from the right lambasted the supposed new theme for John Kerry's campaign: "Let America Be America Again". The phrase is from a poem by Langston Hughes. William F Buckley, in his typically glib fashion says in his column "A Campaign Slogan For Kerry" that because the line was from a poem by Hughes, and because Hughes wrote another poem "Goodbye Christ", which contained the lines
Goodbye,that Kerry's use of the slogan "Let America Be America Again" was somehow a horrible gaff of scandalous proportions, and that Kerry's staff should have done more research before "introducing Langston Hughes as the poet laureate of the Democratic Party in 2004."
Christ Jesus Lord God Jehova,
Beat it on away from here now.
Make way for a new guy with no religion at all—
A real guy named
Marx Communist Lenin Peasant Stalin Worker ME—
"Langston Hughes was asking America to "be America again," meaning, not an America that history had known and chronicled, but an America realizable in a new and different vision. The land of Marx and Lenin and Stalin. Mr. Kerry's campaign team is going to have serious homework to do before introducing Langston Hughes as the poet laureate of the Democratic Party in 2004."
This is what is known in more intellectual circles as "bullshit".
Buckley's statement that Hughes desired for America to become like the land of Stalin and Lennin is preposterous. Research into Hughes' life and works reveals that he wrote "Goodbye Christ" during a trip to the Soviet Union in the 30's that was spurred by his dissilusionment over his break up with Charlotte Mason.
En epiphany he had on the trip was that in the USSR Jews, Blacks, whites, poor are all treated equally -equally downtrodden. Moreover the poem is a rant against the more sanctimonious elements of Christianity -Pope Pius and Aimee McPherson among them, and also musing on how the Soviets had banished religion.
Hughes later broke any leftist ties and vehemently denied any ties with communists, as he referred to the poem as "ill advised".
So for Buckley to a) use it to frame "Let America be America Again", and b) use it as the sole criterion to judge Hughes' life and works is intellectually dishonest at best, and pseudo-intellectual "red-baiting" at the worst.
In the end Buckley's screed is just another attempt by the far right to slander Kerry by slandering Hughes (Again -he was humiliated by the HUAC in the McCarthy era) and by twisting a possible campaign theme into being a nod to communism. This "liberals are communists" crap is getting old.
The Soviets are gone -can't we finally let go of the Cold War please?
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