Once again, the world has to contemplate savagery. The American strikes on Sudan and Afghanistan have certain characteristics. It is war without soldiers. High flying explosives. Nobody to set the fire. The American Soldier is known, since 1917, as a coward: he would no go into combat without a strong, prolonged, extensive and intensive artillery preparation. The American Soldier is not willing to see his opponents' eyes. The American Soldier steps into the battlefield when everything standing has been levelled to the ground and the smoke has gone. The last time when the American Soldier was attacked, without preparation, by foot soldiers running at the sound of the bugles, the American soldier ran away, from the Yalu to the Japan sea, all through the Korean peninsula, in 1952, the Chinese infantry on his heels. The American soldier came back north only after the peninsula had been razed to the ground by the airforce. In Vietnam, the American Soldier did not move a toe until the planes and the long range artillery had mowed the ground in front of him. The American Journalist complained that Victor Charlie was elusive, invisible, always hidden. The reason was that the Americain Soldier did not dare to venture in the field without an umbrella. And the American Soldier, who had laid millions of tons of bombs on the bamboo groves, left Indochina in great disarray. The enemy had dug in and the bombs, all sorts of bombs (incendiary, fragmentation, air-sucking) were not enough. As a revenge, the American Soldier was disembarked in Grenada and took it. In three days. Against 200 enemies. Then the American Soldier took Guatemala City, killed 2000 and arrested one, its own former spy, Noriega. Halelujah!
Then came the Gulf War. The American soldier slept in the desert for a while. Higher up, the old B-52 were turning Irakis into hamburgers. Some costly missiles were fired and many got lost. The Furtive Bomber was paralyzed by the dew. The American Soldier did not see action, because action was deemed too dangerous for him, but he came back sick. He complained that the shells were deleterious. The American Soldier is a useless idiot.
Now the American government is going to dispense with him entirely. Madeline Albright, looking like Snowhite' stepmother, said the recent US bombing in Afghanistan and the Sudan are the beginning of a prolonged war, "the war of the future", she said on TV. No more American Soldier. Just boats at high sea, firing long range cruise missiles under the guidance of satellites. Soon enough, the boats will be dispensed off. One guy in his armchair, President Bill Openfly, will press a button in the Oval Room, between two shots at some intern's throat. A misssile will fly somewhere, possibly with an atomic warhead, and will hit a target: like a drug factory, a soccer field, a hospital, a nursery or some other place which has been pinpointed on a map by the American Electronic Spy who has determined that in the vicinity of this structure, some seditious or anti-American words have been issued by some ill-intentioned characters. President Openfly will be satisfied that nipping terrorism in the bud requires serious attention and dedicated action in order to protect American interests. The results of the bombings will be assessed in a couple of months, when the dust is completely settled down.
While these interesting developments take place, the American Journalist will go on air telling his tale of civilization against barbarism. As a pure coincidence, all these bombings take place in Muslim countries. Of course, it is well known that these Muslim countries are places of barbarism. President Bill Openfly will now teach the Muslims how to be good and civilized Muslim because he knows best. If the Muslims understand how to be good and avoid being bombed out, they must start to lick the feet of the American Soldier, nicely give their land and house to the cute Jewish Boy from Brooklyn or Moscow who needs a place on earth, because apparently Brooklyn and Moscow are too small for him, and applaud generally to the Hollywood screenshit. The very good Muslim, who licks the ass of Mr President Openfly, may even have a sentimental treat: the President will make war against his local enemies, like in Koweit or in Bosnia, those Disneyesque creations of the poets who sit in the Foreign Office or at State.
The destroyed facilities will be generally qualified as "chemical plants preparing chemical weapons" or, as Madeleine Notsobright said, "the precursors of chemical weapons". What is not a "precursor" of something bad? Is not Madeleine herself a "precursor" of something possibly uglier? We have heard that song already last time they bombed Libya. Now Khartoum. Whoever has been once in Khartoum would laugh at the idea of an "advanced" technical plant of any sort there. Afghanistan and Sudan happen to be among the poorest countries in the world, places were most eveything is still made by the hand of toiling men and women.
Of course, these bombings are symbolic in their content. They hit places which have no importance at all. They are meaned to say to the world: look, the American soldier is the Police, he strikes the bad guys, just like in the movies. At the same time, these blind acts of savagery reveal the lack of thinking and the sheer impotence of the powers who decide them.
It entirely justifies Mr. ben Laden who has been reported as saying "The Americans are the biggest pirates and robbers of the world". This is true. This truth was uttered, in the past, mostly by the Communists. It is now uttered by the Muslims. But there is no reason to believe that Islam will be wiped out as Communism has been discarded. For reasons best analyzed by George Orwell in "1984", Big Brother is in need of an Official Enemy. And it has choosen the Muslims. This has a consequence: all decent thinking autonomous human beings, irrespective of creed or faith, will side with the newly elected Official Enemy in order to get rid of the world Tyranny, jointly exercised by the USA and Israel, with the sheepish agreement of Europe and Japan. The 20th century has been the century of dictatorships. This is true. But it is equally true that most of them crumbled down. Except this one. The ridiculous bombings of desert's sands, with 75 missiles costing one million dollars apiece, gives us the precious indication that the countdown of the survival time of the American-cum-Israel Tyranny has begun.
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