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(Part One)
(This reflection has two parts, both concluded
on Saturday, March 22nd)
In this reflection I will go by the news
received from different sources, including
international cable services, –without
specifically recognizing any of them as the
information source, but strictly abiding by the
text of the news-- books, documents, the
Internet, and even questions asked to
well-documented sources.
There is a big hustle and bustle everywhere, as
if we lived in a mad house. Our very well-known
characters continue on their hectic tour.
After visiting Brazil and Chile, Condoleezza
flew to Moscow to sound out the new President.
She wants to know his mind. She traveled with
the chief of the Pentagon. With a dislocated
arm after a fall on February, he said: “With a
broken arm, I won't be nearly as difficult a
negotiator." A typically Yankee joke. You may
figure out the effect this had on the proud ears
of a Russian, whose people suffered the loss of
so many millions of lives in their struggle
against the Nazi hordes which claimed for vital
space –what we could call today cheap oil, raw
materials, and guaranteed markets for surplus
goods.
We have known of the adventures of McCain and
Cheney in Baghdad; one of them hopes to become
head of government, and the other, being already
the deputy head of government, issues more
orders than his boss. They were both welcomed
with the most unexpected and violent
predictions. They devoted less than two days to
that, enough time to flood the world with
sinister forecasts.
Bush was delivering speeches in Washington while
the prices of gold and oil were sky-rocketing.
Cheney didn’t stop. He rushed for the Sultanate
of Oman -774,000 oil barrels per day in 2005 and
780,000 in 2004. Last year Oman revealed its
plans to invest 10 billion dollars during the
next five years to increase its oil production
to 900,000 barrels per day and reach the figure
of 70 to 80 million cubic meters of gas per
day. This is what the Sultanate authorities
reported on January 15, 2007.
Cheney, accompanied by his family, sailed on
board of the Sultan’s yacht “Kingfish I” on a
fishing tour nearby the maritime boundaries
between Oman and Iran. How bold! Nobel awards
should also be given to those super-brave who
run the risk of death or mutilation after a
sumptuous private lunch with a fishbone stuck in
the throat. The absence of the owner of the
luxurious yacht spoiled the hero’s party.
McCain doesn’t stop either. He jumps into a
helicopter to move around the territory where
the Israeli soldiers, while chasing Palestinian
leaders, continue to kill women, children,
teenagers and youth in the West Bank with the
use of sophisticated technical means. The
Republican candidate is an expert on that.
He traveled to Jerusalem and there he promised
to be the first to recognize that whole city as
the capital of Israel, which the United States
and Europe turned into a sophisticated nuclear
power, whose satellite-guided missiles could
fall in Moscow, more than 5000 kilometers away,
in a matter of minutes.
There will be no oil or gas producing State that
Cheney would not visit before he returns to
attest to the happiness of the world before the
President of his country.
Bush, for one, speaks on the 17th for one
reason, then on the 18th for another reason, and
on the 19th to mark the beginning of his
fantastic war. Cuba, as it was to be expected,
has not ceased to be at the crosshairs of his
invectives.
In the midst of the chaos created by the empire,
wars become inseparable sidekicks. It’s been
five years since the beginning of the Iraqi
war. Profound thinkers have estimated the
amounts of persons who have been affected, and
have calculated that this war’s total cost
amounts to trillions of dollars. Four thousand
army soldiers have lost their lives; for every
soldier that is killed thirty more are wounded
due to the kind of war that is being waged.
White phosphorous and cluster bombs are the feed
that nurtures this war on a daily basis.
Anything goes, except for living.
Cheney and McCain compete with one another, one
of them as the father of the creature, the other
as the stepfather. They both meet with heads of
State and exact compromises: oil and gas
production should be increased, with the use of
Yankee technology, Yankee inputs, and Yankee
weapons from the industrial military complex.
Yankee military bases should be allowed.
From Jerusalem, McCain jumps into London to talk
with Gordon Brown. Before that, while speaking
in Jordan, he made a mistake and asserted that
Iran, a Shiite country, was helping to train Al
Qaeda, a Sunnite organization. It’s all the
same to him; he didn’t even apologize for his
mistake.
Cheney jumps into Afghanistan. The war waged by
NATO and the Yankees has turned the country into
the largest opium exporter of the world. The
USSR had worn itself out and plunged into a
similar war. Bush launched his first belligerent
blow there, supported by NATO.
They are doing all that needs to be done to
convene two parallel meetings: one to discuss
the fight on terrorism and a NATO meeting.
One thing is certain: Ban Ki-moon, the UN
Secretary General, and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer,
NATO’s top official, will meet with Hamid Karzai,
President of Afghanistan on April 1, 2 and 3 in
Bucharest to participate in the Trans-Atlantic
Forum to be held in that city. At the same time
there will be a conference convened by the GMF
(the German Marshall Fund of the United States),
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, and
Chatham House which will gather a great number
of strategists and politicians to address topics
of vital interest for NATO. According to the
GMF Chairman, the conference will be attended by
9 Heads of State, 24 Prime Ministers and
ministers, and 40 presidents of research
institutions from Europe and the Americas, which
make up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) which dissolved Tito’s Yugoslavia and
carried out the war in Kosovo. Anyone could
understand that any similarity with the
interests pursued by the Yankee imperialism is a
mere coincidence. The situation in the Balkans,
the anti-missile defense system, the energy
supply and weapons control are unavoidable
issues.
Since Bush needs to perform his main character
role, he has already drafted his own schedule:
he would be in the city of Neptun, in the Black
Sea, to attend a meeting with Traian Basescu,
President of Romania, on the eve of the opening
of the conference. The fate of humankind which
contributes surplus value and blood, are in
those hands.
(To be continued tomorrow, in Part II)
Fidel Castro Ruz
March 22, 2008
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