Who will teach the White House some core values?
"God take revenge on the Americans and those who brought them here. They have no regard for our lives.'' Those are the heart wrenching words of a brother whose sister has just been gunned down by trigger-happy young Marines in Samarra, while she was racing towards her maternity hospital. For how many people is he speaking? Millions? Billions?
The youthful soldiers' excuse is that he told them to stop and they didn't. Where did such a war philosophy ferment itself? What sick minds are responsible for programming the captive brains of these delusional combatants, and now will be teaching them "Core Warrior Values"? Have none of them ever read a book other than high school required reading, which would perhaps have pictured for them the atrocities of Ancient Warriors? Is the word soldier insufficient to relate to what is now but a complex policing operation? Is the choice of that word a further gaff for a Military that is becoming legendary in this area?
Few people would doubt, that if this administration's sole objective had been to surgically remove Saddam Hussein, as George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. asserted, the Iraq war would have received much support from many Arab states. The appearance is, however, that despite the U.S. air strike success in Kosovo, the Bush Administration nurtured a hidden agenda that required massive deployment of occupation forces, and the establishment of a loyal and friendly new controlling block in Iraq. This machination by an oil-impregnated administration was conceived as a manner of controlling a sufficient amount of world oil reserves, for the U.S. to be itself an influential factor in the world price for oil.
In modern history, as well as present times, there are numerous examples of dominant powers and individuals, venting their anger on the innocent, when the true culprits are beyond their reach. The U.S. Military and the current Administration at some point, must have decided that, using a surgical knife however was not time effective when seeking to carve out for itself a sizable niche in the world's most desirable geography.
How else to explain the destruction of water services, telephone and other forms of communication, electric power grids and other installations dedicated to the care of citizens. These are services which innocent civilians cannot do without, but trained military insurgents have little need of. Yet, these Demolition Generals did not avoid doing precisely that, first in Baghdad, then in Fallujah, despite numerous claims by the U.S. military of possessing state of the art surgical weaponry.
In the war oriented minds of people such as George W. Bush and his blind followers, the simple solution of the wolf in the Fable was probably sufficient reasoning for them: "Maybe it wasn't you that drank my water he says to the lamb, but it was probably one of your brothers or cousins" So he ate him. With similar logic they made Iraqis responsible for the 9/11 attack, and Iraqi citizens somewhat responsible for the acts of terrorism in Iraq , and thereby openly professed their unconcern for the innocent citizens of Iraq whom they had professed to save from tyranny.
The primary instigators of this massacre tolerant philosophy were George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and tricky Dick II Cheney, and in so doing they created a trickle process readily embraced by the Army Commanders, and ultimately by lesser officers and soldiers, all of which led to the documented abuses at Abu Ghraib, the potentially greater abuses at Guantanamo, plus the Haditha carnage and now the latest random killing in Samarra, so reminiscent of the last year's suspected assassination attempt of Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian leftist newspaperwoman just released by her kidnappers. This question is well justified:" Are these the whole enchilada, or only the tip of a giant iceberg?" The probable answer of choice is ugly.
The latest media fad as a replacement for hard work is the unending polling of viewers on the most trite of subjects. Perhaps someone could ask for answers to the following question:
What is George W. Bush's instinctive reaction when apprised of such events for the first time.
A) Mad as a hornet at those soldiers for getting caught?
B) Disappointment in his Generals for allowing such matters to occur?
C) Sorrow for the victims and their family?
D) A fleeting touch of delusive satisfaction?
E) Unavoidable collateral damage?
At some point, George W. Bush and his band of merry mensas, will be made to realize that the formula that was applied in the mid-twentieth century, when Germany and Japan were defeated, and then were immediately aided in developing strong industrialized economies, will not succeed in this case. The people now involved simply do not want an American system of governance which openly enables massive corruption, nor would they exchange any part of their own culture dating over thousands of years, for that which is represented nightly on American TV.
