According to a report that I just read, the Bush Administration is supporting a terrorist organization now. In fact, it is supporting an enemy of one of its allies. The Kongra-Gel (KGK, formerly Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, KADEK) is an enemy of Turkey, who has been our ally for many years in the Middle East. Not only that, but our own State Department actually has the Kongra-Gel on its list of terrorist groups. The hypocrisy is so thick now that one would need an acetylene torch to cut through it.
If this report is to be believed, this means that everything that our so-called enemies have been saying about us is true. Our government only supports and aids people who benefit their corporate needs without regard to the consequences of said support. We have been engaging in this sort of intervention for decades now. This has lead to “blowback”, which is a CIA term for unintended consequences. The Central Intelligence Agency has “intervened” in and manipulated the affairs of other nations since it was first formed just after World War 2. Just take a look at “Killing Hope U.S. Military and CIA interventions since World War II” by William Blum. For a synopsis of the listing of CIA interventions from Mr. Blum’s book, visit here. When one looks at the multitude of these so-called interventions and compares them to what happens in these places now and then adds the condition in which these places are currently under, the term “freeing the world to death” seems awfully appropriate.
I have a strong fear that I know what is coming next. What is coming is a war with Iran. The Bush administration is so convinced of its own superiority that it is willing to destroy everything to prove it to the rest of the world. I believe that what we are witnessing is a Greek tragedy in the making. Hubris is the order of the day and not one person within the Bush administration knows humility. They do not see that they can possibly be wrong. To this very day, no one in the White House has admitted any sort of error in judgment with regards to Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. We all know that lies were told and exaggerations made. Yet the Bush administration is heel bent on following the same path into Iran, even if it means siding with the very thing we are allegedly at war with, which is a terrorist organization. The Bush administration is willing to throw its own ally, Turkey, under the bus in order to attack Iran. How disgusting is that?
The Bush administration swears that Iran is helping the insurgency in Iraq with attacks on Americans and American interests. I cannot help but think that Iran never did anything to the Iraqi people or American troops prior to our invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. They never attacked us on our soil. Sure, they took some of our people hostage at one point, but our people shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Oh, and let us not forget that it was the actions of our own CIA that saw the overthrow of Iran’s leader Mohammed Mossadegh and installed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (the Shah of Iran), who brutalized and oppressed the Iranian people and destroyed the country economically. The CIA helped overthrow Mossadegh because he wanted to nationalize the oil reserves they had for the benefit of the people of Iran. Instead, Pahlavi leased the oil fields to American and British oil companies and squandered the money on lavish palaces, never doing anything for the people he ruled. This is why we are labeled “the Great Satan”. It isn’t because we are free. It isn’t because of our stance on equal rights for women. It isn’t for any of that. The Bush administration would have you believe otherwise, but they are lying to you. After having seen some of the things that past administrations have done and what the current one is doing; can you honestly say that you blame them for hating us.
The bottom line is this: we have got to adopt a foreign policy of non-intervention. On top of this, we have got to learn the give and take of diplomacy. We must drop this idea that we are better than everyone and that it is “our way or the highway”. We must also learn to accept that we live in a glass house. We cannot solve the world’s problems without ever addressing our own.
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