Crisis Chronicle--again
I thought I was hardened.
9/11 led to the attack of Afghanistan because the US needed to let out its aggression. Somehow, this was tweaked into a long planned invasion of Iraq because something had to be done to secure American petrleum and begin the project of changing the geopolitical map of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The second Palestinian Intifada came and continued and continued, towns and camps were bombed, seiged into submission until a new election led to results Israelis didn't like much better than the Intifada. Sharon doesn't even know his name and still Gaza is being attacked relentlessly. (And, no, the attacks didn't begin with the kidnapping of the Israeli soldier).
I thought that I could handle whatever came of this by now. And then came the invasion of Lebanon.
I've spent a lot of time researching Lebanese websites for organizations and news sources. After the extensive reading and research, I met and spoke with my Lebanese brothers and sisters. I don't know how to describe it. People that have always acted like the coolest cats on the block are tired--after days on days of trying to reach loved ones, waiting for news, hoping to get a glance of family members on CNN and hoping that this isn't going to turn out as another occupation not long after the last 18 year Israeil occupation of Lebanon, people are exhausted.
Meanwhile, Gaza is still under attack and Palestine is still militarily occupied. I used to think that there was a chance that the world just didn't know or didn't understand. Now, I'm thinking that most people don't care.
Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon are burning; Afghanistan is hurting; thousands of people all over the world have taken to the streets. This is no time for governments of the MENA to play nice diplomacy.
The last oil embargo was over three decades ago. I think it's high time for another one.
9/11 led to the attack of Afghanistan because the US needed to let out its aggression. Somehow, this was tweaked into a long planned invasion of Iraq because something had to be done to secure American petrleum and begin the project of changing the geopolitical map of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The second Palestinian Intifada came and continued and continued, towns and camps were bombed, seiged into submission until a new election led to results Israelis didn't like much better than the Intifada. Sharon doesn't even know his name and still Gaza is being attacked relentlessly. (And, no, the attacks didn't begin with the kidnapping of the Israeli soldier).
I thought that I could handle whatever came of this by now. And then came the invasion of Lebanon.
I've spent a lot of time researching Lebanese websites for organizations and news sources. After the extensive reading and research, I met and spoke with my Lebanese brothers and sisters. I don't know how to describe it. People that have always acted like the coolest cats on the block are tired--after days on days of trying to reach loved ones, waiting for news, hoping to get a glance of family members on CNN and hoping that this isn't going to turn out as another occupation not long after the last 18 year Israeil occupation of Lebanon, people are exhausted.
Meanwhile, Gaza is still under attack and Palestine is still militarily occupied. I used to think that there was a chance that the world just didn't know or didn't understand. Now, I'm thinking that most people don't care.
Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon are burning; Afghanistan is hurting; thousands of people all over the world have taken to the streets. This is no time for governments of the MENA to play nice diplomacy.
The last oil embargo was over three decades ago. I think it's high time for another one.
posted by smokey spice at 1:41 AM
5 Comments:
you should probably do some more research. but here are a couple hints, afghanistan had nothing to do with agression, and what we wanted out of iraq was RUSSIA'S oil. this is no secret. aggression, imperialism and texas vendettas are all just smoke screens to what is really going on.
america is still in the middle of the very significant petroleum wars, and the adversaries are not arab.
Hi Jeames I would like to hear more about your theory please
dick cheney had discussed building a pipeline through afghanistan in 1998 while addressing haliburton (of which he was the chief executive officer). the pipeline would be used to transport liquid natural gas from the central asian republics to open waters without the assistence of turkey.
with a steady supply of LNG, the united states would then be able to move away from oil dependency. but most other industrialized nations (and specifically those in transition from third-world to first-world nations) are about to come into oil dependency now.
it would be highly advantagous for the united states to be "off" oil, while having a firm grasp on oil by which they could control those other nations (notably russia and china, though many others).
russia, noticing this, had arranged deals with iraq that if sanctions were lifted, russia would have exclusive purchasing access to iraq's reserves. russia, with nearly as much power as the united states in the international community, than began to push for the lifting of the sanctions.
had the united states not interferred with this, then russia would have had more access to oil than the united states, and iraq would have had enough disposable capital to recover from the last decade of war.
in (i think it was) may of 2001, talks on the pipeline broke down between the bush administration and their fundamentalist taliban allies. the talks, allegedly, broke down because of the taliban's refusal to curtail opium production (which would have increased the price and profitability of opiates world wide).
by the summer of 2001, it was clear that the united states would have to install new governments in both afghanistan and iraq.
conveniently, along came osama bin laden. bin laden had worked with the cia in afghanistan to help repell russian control at the beginning of the petroleum wars. at that time, the director of the cia was one george h. w. bush, father of the current president.
furthermore, bin laden's attack on the united states was carried out largely by saudi arabians -- saudi arabia is also a close ally to the bush family. and of course, the two men that profited most from the attacks that september morning were none other than george w. bush and osama bin laden.
this is all part of the public record, though flavored with my own interpretation. i actually learned of the pipeline, dick cheney's address to haliburton, russia's deal with iraq, and the breakdown between the united states and the taliban all on american mainstream mass media. most of which, i learned on the old incarnation of abc's nightline.
i should also point out that it has been official united states policy, under every president, since john kennedy has been to use the full weight of the united states military to protect the oil supply. in fact, it is my belief that future historians will not even recognize the so-called "cold war," and will say that the petroleum wars began with ike's handing power over to jfk.
nonetheless, it would not be wise for the anti-zionists to interfere with the big dog's access to the water dish. that's how people get hurt.
if people wish to see an end to the zionist movement, then all of israel's neighbors should just declare outright war on israel right now. the united states is committed to iraq, and it would be hard for me to conceive of a united states public that would want to enter another war when iran and and north korea may pose real threats in the not so distant future.
i believe that if all of the arab nations were to raise up against israel, the united states would leave her to the wolves. unfortunately, at least since partition, solidarity seems to be a foriegn concept.
in fact, that entire region seems to be absent of any desire for liberty throughout the history of mankind. the region seems more to have a history of followers and victims, not a history of trailblazers and revolutionaries. so i would imagine the region will not take opportunity seriously and let the cycle continue for eons more to come.
Hi Jeames thanks for replying, I have always been thinking along the same lines , but my classmates made fun of me saying I was obsessed about oil. I like your theory if we may put it this way . ( Sorry not to have replied earlier - but I was kind of away from commenting ).
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