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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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