[Col. Writ. 1/17/05] Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal
It is much better for a prince to be feared
than loved, if he is to fail in one of the two.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527),
The Prince
The second inauguration of U.S. President
George W. Bush has not yet occurred, and
already, the rumors of war are echoing throughout
the halls of Washington, through the cracked walls
of the Pentagon, and from the well-sourced pen of
*The New Yorker's* Seymour Hersh.
According to Hersh, Bush administration
officials in the Defense department are finalizing
plans to strike a series of targets in the Islamic
Republic of Iran, ostensibly because of reports
that Iran possesses weapons-grade nuclear
materials. Hersh also reports that U.S. covert
forces have been inside Iran for nearly a year,
searching for good sites to 'paint' for air strikes.
If so, then the country is on the brink of engaging
in a war that will make Iraq look like a picnic.
This imminent war should surprise no one ---
for the recent election results have been
interpreted by the administration as an
endorsement of their mishandling of the Iraq
war; and if it 'worked' in Iraq, the thinking goes,
why not Iran?
It's almost as if the administration echoed
that line from an old Western: 'WMD's? We
don't need no proof of no stinking WMDs!'
And, in fact, they don't.
The 2004 elections, which ratified the Iraq
War as a facet of the facetious 'War on Terror',
has opened the door to what is, in actuality,
a war on the world. Iran appears to be next.
That's because Iraq was pre-ordained for
U.S. attack, based upon the Project for a
New American Century, a blueprint of the
neocon faction of the American right wing.
It is from this project that the idea of
'preemptive war' arises. Its basic thrust
is that"
It is much better for a prince to be feared
than loved, if he is to fail in one of the two.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527),
The Prince
The second inauguration of U.S. President
George W. Bush has not yet occurred, and
already, the rumors of war are echoing throughout
the halls of Washington, through the cracked walls
of the Pentagon, and from the well-sourced pen of
*The New Yorker's* Seymour Hersh.
According to Hersh, Bush administration
officials in the Defense department are finalizing
plans to strike a series of targets in the Islamic
Republic of Iran, ostensibly because of reports
that Iran possesses weapons-grade nuclear
materials. Hersh also reports that U.S. covert
forces have been inside Iran for nearly a year,
searching for good sites to 'paint' for air strikes.
If so, then the country is on the brink of engaging
in a war that will make Iraq look like a picnic.
This imminent war should surprise no one ---
for the recent election results have been
interpreted by the administration as an
endorsement of their mishandling of the Iraq
war; and if it 'worked' in Iraq, the thinking goes,
why not Iran?
It's almost as if the administration echoed
that line from an old Western: 'WMD's? We
don't need no proof of no stinking WMDs!'
And, in fact, they don't.
The 2004 elections, which ratified the Iraq
War as a facet of the facetious 'War on Terror',
has opened the door to what is, in actuality,
a war on the world. Iran appears to be next.
That's because Iraq was pre-ordained for
U.S. attack, based upon the Project for a
New American Century, a blueprint of the
neocon faction of the American right wing.
It is from this project that the idea of
'preemptive war' arises. Its basic thrust
is that"
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