Two Hearts
Maureen Dowd, Maureen Dowd, Maureen Dowd. When have two
opposing hearts had so much of each other on their minds? Of course
my reserve heart has been moved to a secure spot behind my right
knee. She’s after me again in today’s Times.
It’s the old taunt about not catching Osama bin Laden. She’s smarter
than ‘Grey-Boy,’ too, but doesn’t quite get it either. It’s an old trick,
called ‘Wars of the Stooges.’ If, you, the owners of a country are taking
away rights, privileges, shares of wealth etcetera; you must provide
suitable distractions.
Look at four of our last ‘wars:’ Manuel Noriega, former dictator of
Panama had been on the C.I.A.’s payroll. Saddam Hussein, whom we
have had the honor of fighting twice was our de facto ally against the
Iranians in the mid-eighties.
We sent Rumsfeld there several times to shake Saddam’s hand. Once to
sell them a pipeline deal and once on behalf of the Reagan
Administration to hand-over satellite intelligence and billions of dollars
in ‘agricultural assistance’ made fungible just for him so he could turn it
into cash for the arms market.
Poison gas for Saddam? We and our Western allies made all that
possible. In between we created the ‘mujahideen’ and thereafter the
Taliban with two billion dollars. A billion from our taxpayers and another
billion of recycled petro-dollars via the Saudis. So indirectly Osama bin
Laden and his ‘computer data-base’ (Al Qaeda) of mujahideen have
been a creation of our Foreign Policy.
You need wars and the threat of war as a suitable distraction. Who we
gonna fight; China? That would be a real war with real consequences.
We’d prefer to hand the Chinese our industry, give them to Wal-Mart as
America’s supplier and borrow our money back from China at modest
rates. This only makes sense, of course, if you understand our final
game plan [Yuk, yuk].
But Maureen, Maureen, Maureen. --I need to remember not to move
my head too suddenly as the personality switching-device could self-
engage. I have learned to learn about her, without becoming her
(again).
