THE NEVER-ENDING WAR

THE NEVER-ENDING WAR

By Mad Plato

So President Bush thinks that Iraq is now a safer country because Saddam Hussein is in a prison cell. I am not in any prison cell, but I sometimes feel that I am sitting inside a prison called the USA.

America has not always felt like a prison. But the current administration has changed all of that. We Americans and the world now must obey the new leaders of World War IV [The Cold War was number 3 according to James Woolsey].

Even NATO doesn’t want to enter this entangled nest of vipers.

There is terror around every corner. Fear and Terror! Terror! Terror! Terror! No WMDs, but potential DIRTY BOMBS AND MORE TERROR! MORE TERROR! MORE TERROR!

These are now the salient symbols and epithets of a new and improved [tortured] century.

The Red Menace [Russian not Chinese] is no longer the fuel for the hungry pyres that have always fed the Pentagon Dragon and its corporate dragonets. NOW IT IS THE NEVER-ENDING WAR ON TERRORISM.

Our nemesis, Osama bin Laden, was once a freedom fighter with the support of the CIA, a part of the Mujahedeen who had fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan. He was the Pentagon’s buddy just like the Shah, Somoza, Marcos, Saddam were etc.---even the Taliban! But we are a throw-away culture, so once we have found no more usefulness for our dictators, we expunge them [at our convenience, of course].

What a pretty mess!