By Ken Walker
Picture this. It’s 1998. A group of children play sand soccer in outer Baghdad. Dust is flying from the clicking cleats breathing futbol. There are laughs, jitters, and goals on this field of competition. Then, a new field of competition opens in the sky and the children hear a jet drop an enormous metal shell aimed directly at the factory a half mile in the distance. The children know the factory is completely filled with workers getting through a day. The pilots do too. Bill Clinton did too. Those children are shocked from the amplified explosion, and then vigorously continue their match minutes later. These same children were involved in this same event in Yugoslavia, Yemen, Egypt, and Bosnia in the nineties.
Reagan was in the enemy development market too. His were Cuba, Yemen, Iran, and mainly numerous attacks on Nicaragua. Former president George Bush was mainly involved with Iraq. The present administration picked Afghanistan, and now “imminently” Iraq. The budget deficit worsens if you count to three right now. The Dow Industrial average is fading into the black of a night sky. Everything seems to fade. And just as the public of the United States thinks this war on terrorism and Al-Qaeda is ending, we hear of this “Buffalo 6,” and Eunice Jones.
“Buffalo 6;” hmm, quite a clever nickname. Sounds a bit like an independent film. Six apparent Al Qaeda members who were not threatening anything in the metropolis of Buffalo, NY, were broken in on and arrested this past week. In a diner on the Georgia/Florida line, men discussed, jokingly, the effects of September 11, and Shoney’s waitress Eunice Jones advises a manger and warns the authorities, and nearly 700 registered officers (local, state, and federal) approach the scene. It was found this was a joke and now, in the eyes of the “international,” Americans seem obliviously more racist and are stereotyped at higher rates. It is all part of the circle.
The circle keeps cycling. Clinton hid it. The economy was boosting in 1998 while attacks occurred worldwide. Was the USS Cole not a warning? Were the embassy bombings not warning enough? They were meager. They were not the World Trade Center. Was Slobodan Milosevic’s warning, “With the US being the aggressor it is, terrorism is running rampant on them without an answer,” not enough? Was Nicaragua aggressive enough? We needed the cocaine, just as in Iraq, we needed/need the oil. Just as in Yemen, we needed the opium. Just as in Bosnia, we needed re-election for Bill. When it comes down to it, the circle is representative for the real “imminent.” The obvious is money and re-election. When money was wild during Clinton’s years, battles and wars were kept minuscule in media eyes. Now money is low, economy is diminishing and battles are on media forefront coverage.
This is the circle. 1985 has circled into 1993 and into 1998 and then 2001-2002. There will always be a non-European place to attack, steal resources from, cover up White House truths and continue the re-election strategies. Why has Tony Blair hopped on board so cleverly with Bush? Because when the US economy does negatively, so does the British economy. It is a global scale. Everything is measured globally. This is the circle. Nicaragua, Yemen, Iran, Bosnia, Egypt, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and now back to Iraq. Do any of those countries sound like a real threat? Do any of those countries sound wealthy? Do any of those countries even affect this one on a day to day basis? Most of us keep Saddam Hussein on the mute, keep him at a low, or erase him from our brains until administrations and media channels scream of his regime. The real question is: with US imperialism, where is the REAL regime hiding? Washington D.C.?
