Weekly Warning Words

     Teddy Roosevelt had only one "happy little war". George Bush has already two - so far. His military industrial complex recommends a few more, so that Cheney's Halliburton and Schultz's Bechtel can make more billions by the reconstruction of what their Man destroyed, courtesy of our taxpayers.

     These well-connected giants create well-paying jobs which account for the imagined recovery of our economy. Who cares for the thousands of victims of this heroic approach to problems of world economy? Apparently, our soldiers are trained to be roasted. And the thousands of martyred civilians didn't expect to live long anyway in wretched poverty.

     Democrats had done it too. Truman's Marshall Plan made friends of Hitler's Germany and built up our richest competitor. He also hired John Foster Dulles to reconstruct Japan and Emperor Hirohito, a nasty war criminal, with the help of General MacArthur. Dulles and Douglas were compassionate Republicans too.

     Our friendly undertaker, a pious soul like Dulles and the popular general, has the courage to forgive the victims of friendly fire for laying down their lives for his military glory. Surely, Osama bin Laden and Assam Hussein are evil terrorists too. But the latter was not dangerous to us. And we built up the former and his Mujahedeens, training them as guerillas against the liberal Gorbachëv of the USSR and providing them with modern armaments and huge funds. Why kill thousands of innocents in their wretched ghettos in the hope of catching just one chief criminal? Was not the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran a more fanatical hater and killer who started Islam's crusade against US? And is not North Korea a greater threat to its neighbors than the other 2 haters whom we try to kill?

     Clever Ms. Rice could have convinced her Bush warrior that he would have achieved just as much if he had used the method of Bill Clinton and General Clark by dropping deadly bombs on all military installations, palaces and other possible hiding places of cowardly murderers in Afghanistan and Iraq. Our 500-ton precision bombs could teach Damascus, Teheran, Baghdad and some other resort places of mass murderers that we mean business-for Halliburton, Bechtel and their subcontractors. Would that not have been an easier, cheaper and more humanitarian way to teach Bush democracy, religion and compassionate Republicanism?

     Maybe that Bremer knows better how to teach freedom of exploitation as a glorious expression of democratic capitalism. Also, only masters of business administration (MBA) know what kind of constitution utterly demolished nations need. Our few friends may also convince our occupied, formerly sovereign nations that we only remain in those ungovernable countries as long as a large majority of liberals there want us to stay.

     Since we are now in the business of nation building, our hallowed principles of law and order must be forced on Afghanistan, Iraq and a few others with the help of their former policemen and soldiers whom we now pay good salaries, train them better and equip them with modern weaponry. Is that not what we did for Iraq when it was our partner in the Baghdad Pact and for Afghanistan when it fought good man Gorbachëv? Tell the unbelievers who are the morons who didn't learn the lessons of history. Are we condemned to go through this terror again and again and make dirty Home Security Guards spread deadly germs from one naive traveler to another? The good news is that the millions on guard and the millions in our Gulags can be removed from those listed as unemployed.

Week 17 - Jan 21, 2004 - Foreign Affairs

January 14, 2004 - Week 17 - Nation Building?

BY DR. BRUNO J. KEITH