Letter from America
Four more wars, er, years!
Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed writes from Princeton
Ultimately President Bush will do absolutely nothing to punish North Korea for its declaration that it is a nuclear power. Sure, there will be plenty of sabre rattling, snickering ("they are simply boasting"), and sound and fury, which will signify nothing. The inclusion of North Korea in Mr. Bush's "axis of evil," along with Iraq and Iran was a clever way of deflecting potential criticism that Mr. Bush was targeting only Muslim nations. Mr. Bush was never interested in confronting North Korea, which is too far away to threaten Israel. Muslim nations near Israel are a different matter. Mr. Bush's Zionist neoconservative-controlled foreign policy agenda is to destroy Muslim nations that are hostile to Israel, such as Iraq, Syria, and Iran, and punish those Muslim nations which are critical of Israel. That The New York Times sent Ms. Eliza Griswold to Bangladesh to report to the Americans on the "horrible" things happening in Bangladesh was not accidental! No evidence, only suspicion is sufficient for President Bush to take action against Muslim nations. Without waiting to ascertain whether Syria had anything to do with the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the US recalled its ambassador. As the whole world now recognizes, Iraq's possession of nonexistent WMDs was used as a ploy to invade Saddam's Iraq, which had the temerity to hand out money to the family of Palestinian suicide bombers after they had blown themselves up. American planes and agents are now illegally scouring Iran to locate nuclear facilities to bomb. That Iran is being threatened by Israel and America proves that Iran does not possess nuclear weapons. After all, North Korea and China are not being threatened with democracy! America has always favoured Israel over the Arabs and the Muslims. Never in the history of America, however, has America been under the absolute control of the agents of a foreign nation, Israel. If you do not believe me, read the following excerpts from an article written by Israeli peace activist Mr. Uri Avnery recently: "Some people say, only half in jest, that the USA is an Israeli colony. And indeed, in many respects it looks like that. President Bush dances to Ariel Sharon's tune. Both the Houses of Congress are totally subservient to Israeli rightwing -- much more so than the Knesset (Israeli parliament). It has been said that if the pro-Israeli lobby were to sponsor a resolution on Capitol Hill calling for the abolition of the (Christian) Ten Commandments, both Houses of Congress would adopt it overwhelmingly. Each year Congress confirms the payment of massive tribute to Israel." Avnery continues: "George Bush is a very simple, very violent person with very extreme views, as well being very much an ignoramus. This is a very dangerous combination. Such people have caused many disasters in human history. Maximilian Robespierre, the French revolutionary who invented the Reign of Terror has been called 'the Great Simplifier' because of the terrible simplicity of his views, which he tried to impose with the guillotine. "The ideologues who govern the thoughts and deeds of Bush are called 'neo-conservatives,' but that is a misleading appellation. Actually they are a revolutionary group. Their aim is not to conserve but to overturn. Mostly Jewish, they are the pupils of Leo Strauss, a German-Jewish professor with a (Russian revolutionary) Trotskyite past who ended up developing semi-fascist theories and propagating them at the University of Chicago. He illustrated his attitude towards democracy by citing the story of Gulliver: when a fire broke out in the city of the dwarfs, he put the fire out by urinating on them. This is the way, in his view, the small elite group of leaders must treat the ignorant and innocent public, which does not know what is good for them. "In his coronation speech, Bush promised to bring freedom and democracy to every corner of the world. No less, no more. He cited the two countries in which he has already achieved his aim. Iraq and Afghanistan. Both have been devastated by American planes that dropped the message from their bomb doors. Recently, the American soldiers wiped a large city from the face of the earth in order to convince the opponents of 'American values.' Now Fallujah looks as if it had been struck by a tsunami. "It is no secret that the Neo-Cons intend to 'bring democracy' to Iran and Syria, thereby eliminating two more traditional enemies of USA and Israel. Dick Cheney, the Vice President (certainly no Virtue President), has already prophesized that Israel may attack Iran, as if threatening to unleash a Rottweiler. It could have been hoped that after the total debacle in Iraq and the less obvious but equally serious failure in Afghanistan, Bush would shrink from more such actions. But as almost always happens with rulers of this type, he cannot admit defeat and stop. On the contrary, failure drives him on to more extremes, vowing, rather like the captain of the Titanic, 'to stay the course.' "There is no way to guess what Bush may perpetrate, now that he has been re-elected by his people. His ego has been blown up to giant proportions, reaffirming what the Greek fabulist Aesop said some 27 centuries ago: 'The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.' He kicked out the hapless, feeble Colin Powell (as David Ben-Gourion eliminated Moshe Sharett in preparation for his 1956 onslaught on Egypt) and appointed Condoleezza Rice (as Ben-Gurion replaced Sharett with Golda Meir.) Now the order is 'clear the deck for action.' On the deck, Bush is a loose cannon, a danger to everyone around. The results of these elections may be viewed by history as a worldwide catastrophe. "A friend of mine asserts that there are two souls residing in the American nation, a good one and a bad one. That may be true for every nation, including even Israel and Palestine, but in America it is much more extreme. There is the America of Thomas Jefferson (even if he liberated his slaves only on his death), Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower, the America of ideals, the Marshall Plan, science and the arts. And there is the America of the genocide perpetrated against the Native Americans, the country of slave traders and the Wild West myth, the America of Hiroshima, of Joe McCarthy, of segregation, of Vietnam and repressive America. "During Bush's second term, this second America may reach new depths of ugliness and brutality. It may offer the whole world a model of oppression. I would not want my country, Israel, to be identified with such an America. Any advantage we can derive from it may well turn out to be short-term, the damage long-lasting, and perhaps irreversible. One of the advantages of the US constitution is that Bush cannot be re-elected for a third term. As the popular Israeli song goes: 'We survived Pharaoh, we shall survive this, too.' "Perhaps, this could become the anthem for the whole world," Mr. Uri Avnery concludes. Right after taking office in January 2001, President Bush signaled that he would never meet with, or talk to, the late Yassir Arafat and would take orders from Sharon. Zionist Israeli lobby immediately embraced him and promised him reelection if only he would attack Iraq. Mr. Bush complied. Then large swathes of the Jewish community and the Israeli lobby adopted him as one of their own. Life-long Democrats, such as former New York City mayor Ed Koch, deserted their party and campaigned for Bush. Although the nation was falling apart and was at war at home and abroad, with the neo-cons and the Israeli lobby micromanaging his campaign with lies, deceits and fear-mongering, astonishingly, Mr. Bush won reelection! Americans are now waking up to the realities of Bush and the war in Iraq. Letters published in the newspapers criticizing Bush are becoming ferocious and brutal. Many Americans are leaving the US for Canada to wait out the Bush years. Even Republicans privately express grave misgivings about Mr. Bush's hidden agenda. Yet, as Uri Avnery says, President Bush will not change course. Why should he? Allegiance to Israel has reaped him enormous rewards. To have a smooth second term and a good legacy he needs the blessings of the Israeli lobby and is perfectly happy to do their bidding in Syria and Iran to achieve those personal goals. As the average Americans become more and more vociferous in their criticism and condemnation of the President, the only group that sings the praise of the president at the top of their voice in the newspapers, radio and television talk shows are the neo-cons and the Zionists. Why should President Bush care about what anyone else says? The neo-cons have been great for the career of George W. Bush. Unfortunately, by controlling America's president and using American power to do Israel's dirty work, slowly but surely the neo-cons are destroying America.
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