No End in Sight - War on terrorism
Date Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 11:19 PM PST
Topic Lemmings on Parade


No End in Sight

On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, President George W. Bush, in his first State of the Union address called the countries of North Korea, Iraq, and Iran an "axis of evil" and the "world's most dangerous regimes."
Through thunderous applause from congress, Bush continuing listing countries. Bosnia, the Philippines, Somalia, all are "ticking time bombs" ready and waiting to go off.

Leaders of these countries have responded predictably. Filipino representative Saturnino Ocampo said that the speech "portrays the arrogant stance of the U.S. to justify its unilateral action." Iran's foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi dismissed Bush's comments as "unfounded" and Salim al-Qubaisi, head of the Iraqi parliament's foreign and Arab relations committee is quoted as saying that "Little Bush's accusation against Iraq is baseless."

No one is denying that these countries have governments that are brutal and totalitarian at best. But do the attacks of September 11, really justify such aggressive behavior on the part of America? Is peace even an option anymore? Hasn't America's past shown that, in the past fifty years, attacking its semi-threatening countries only succeeds in producing more enemies?

In the past, our country has used the Soviet Threat to pretty much justify anything, from seeking out "commies" in our own military to the invasion of Cuba. The fall of the USSR was supposed to ring in a time of peace and understanding from others. There was no longer a threat, and now America had a great opportunity to seek out world peace. Unfortunately, our media and our government has the uncanny ability to take any two-bit dictator and blow them up as the next big threat - even though our government has been employing said dictators for years. Hence Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, graduate of the infamous School of the Americas, and drug trafficker supreme and who is now serving 40 years in a U.S. federal penitentiary. He had been in the pay of the CIA for thirty years. Saddam Hussein, who was trampled by Operation Desert Storm, so we could protect another totalitarian government in Kuwait, and who is now the new public enemy #1 was supported by the U.S. when fighting Iran in the eighties. Strangely enough, there is absolutely NO evidence even connecting Iraq to the September 11 attacks. Speaking of bin Laden, he was also financially supported by the U.S. in the eighties in order to keep the Soviets from getting into the Middle East. And now he's mysteriously disappeared.

The philosophy of "my enemy's enemy is my friend" has seemingly dominated America's foreign policy for quite some time, often with disastrous results. There is even a term for getting disastrous results from this philosophy: its called "blowback." Which raises the question "Was it really a good idea to support the Northern Alliance?"

The problem with fighting a "War on Terror" is that it has no end. It's like fighting a war on happiness or something… The War on Terrorism is doing nothing but create more terror. The War on Terror will never end.


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