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30 de Diciembre, 2006
All-Day Ticket to the War Theatre
Categorized under Globalización , Gobierno , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: Capitalism, eat the rich, Imperialism, Somalia
UNSURPRISINGLY, The United States Warmoney Machine never rests. Sadly, it does not stray from its tired, cynical, repulsive formulas. Revoltingly, it cares not for human life, nor principle, nor peace. Only power. Oil, cash, blood. As long as it equals power for the Lords and Ladies of the USA.
The US-backed invasion of Somalia to topple its Islamists is a dangerous, illegal act of aggression
Undeterred by the horrors and disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, the Bush administration has opened another battlefront in the Muslim world. With US backing, Ethiopian troops have invaded Somalia in an illegal war of aggression.
—International Lawlessness, Salim Lone, Saturday December 30, 2006, The Guardian
But really. Are you surprised? More than anything, I am stunned with the establishment's willful persistent refusal to learn anything from past (they are not even that past, ahem) disasters founded on the same ideas!
As with Iraq in 2003, the US has cast this as a war to curtail terrorism. The real goal of course is to gain a direct foothold in another highly strategic and oil rich region by installing a client regime in Somalia. The US had already been violating the UN arms embargo on Somalia by supporting the warlords who drove out the UN peace-keepers in 1993 by killing 18 US soldiers, in order to push out the Islamists. That effort failed and an Ethiopian invasion remained the only way to oust a group with popular support. All independent experts warned against such a war, saying it would destabilise the region.
—International Lawlessness, Salim Lone, Saturday December 30, 2006, The Guardian
America loves "independent experts." She listens to them and advises others to do the same...except when doing so would slow her consumption and acquisition of oil.
The Islamists are not angels. But their collective pool of terror acts is dwarfed by the terrorism of the warlords that the US has been supporting in blatant violation of the UN arms embargo.
—International Lawlessness, Salim Lone, Saturday December 30, 2006, The Guardian
Any more doubt that there is only one flag on this globe?
I know to me it is not worth it. Sure, I love my comforts. But I would love if we all agreed that we could live simpler, with less TVs, or perhaps less cars, or smaller houses or whatEVER it would take to finally kill this mad war-worm, this one that eats the planet, eats the soul of all those who dine on her tasty shit, eats the health and future of every child born to this brown-green-blue marble.
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Comentarios (5)
belledame222 dijo:
jesus.
sometimes i wonder if it even really is attachment to creature comforts that's the problem so much as our collective narcissism, our attachment to power, to ego stroking, to "WE'RE NUMBER ONE!"
...it seems to be some sort of spiritual/existential problem driving it all, i think, sometimes. shrug. but i mean: how many billions does any one person -need?- at a certain point materialism really isn't. you know? not basic needs, not even luxurious sensuality, just...status. power. abstractions.
Palabras por belledame222 spat forth on el 1 de Enero, 2007 at 08:21 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
well i dont think it is the creature comforts themselves of course. but the ubiquity of them juxtaposed with the lack of so much basic needs for so many points to something closer to what i'm saying. i agree wholeheartedly with your idea that it is a spiritual lack...or entropy...or retardation. something. but when i see people camping out so they can spend $500 on a video game...and then i see the starving faces in america, or the jailed workers, or the dead in iraq...and i know that so much has to do with our ability to continue to hvae fuel to drive and pick up our new playstations or TVs or to produce (or acquire/trade/import) them cheaply...well. i sum it up, i guess, symbolize by talking about creature comforts. they are a symbol in my text is all. not The Problem. if they were The PRoblem themselves, i'd toss everything i have right now. well. except for my nice shiny computer. and...maybe one of my TVs. and my video games. and guitars. well, i'd have to take my mixing board and mics, too....
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 2 de Enero, 2007 at 06:45 AM
luisa dijo:
it never stops... Since when does looking for one 'terrorist' justify killing a whole town of people? i guess, for the U.S. that has always been the logic.
on a side note: i bet this would have gotten a LOT of comments had we invaded Mexico.
We Xican@s can be very ethnocentric.
Palabras por luisa spat forth on el 9 de Enero, 2007 at 01:36 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
yes...its true. but i can hardly blame people. i've really set up this blog to mostly address Xican@ issues. still, to me it just said that we're so used to America waging war, we hardly notice anymore. muy triste...
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 9 de Enero, 2007 at 01:43 PM
Shafi dijo:
Maybe someone should tell America that Somalia neither possesses immense wealth, nor oil, lest it sees a repeat of the Battle of Mogadishu in the early 90s.
Palabras por Shafi spat forth on el 10 de Enero, 2007 at 12:42 PM