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Maria-Louisa Laopodi wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:48:39 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
 From: maydaymedicine@hushmail.com
 To: thebabylonproject@smartgroups.com
 Subject: [TheBabylonProject] another version of
 sanity...
 Reply-to: thebabylonproject@smartgroups.com
thought people may enjoy an alternative perspective on
 the us
 atrocities.
MM
A CALL FOR REFLECTION, RESTRAINT AND RESPONSIBILITY.
Radio Havana Cuba
There is no joy here in Cuba at the events of Tuesday.
 No one is
 cheering or holding impromptu block parties to
 celebrate the most astonishing
 act of terrorism in history against what has been for
 Cuba an
 implacable enemy for 40 years. There is, instead, a
 profound feeling of shock,
 revulsion and compassion and very real apprehension
 about the cries for
 vengeance that emanate from every corner of the White
 House and the US
 Congress.
 The most powerful nation on earth has been put on a
 war footing and
 history has taught us all what to expect when
 Washington starts waving the
 cudgel self-righteously. The families of almost a
 million Japanese,
 four million Koreans, three million Vietnamese, and
 thousands of Iraqis
 and Yugoslavians can all attest to what occurs when
 the Oval Office
 scrambles its bombers.
It is hard to avoid the obvious accusation that an
 editorial such as
 this will be viewed as a cheap shot against a weakened
 United States, but
 there is an urgent need to respond to staggering and
 inconceivable
 statements from US politicians and people calling for
 the use of nuclear,
 biological and chemical weapons in an almost triumphal
 assertion that
 this is their first war of the 21st century. The sabre
 rattling is
 deafening and very frightening to us all.
 US mainstream media is stirring the hatred by airing
 statements from
 people "on the street" calling for an immediate
 strike, an immediate
 all-out war against the "enemy."
But who is the "enemy?" The enemy are successive
 Washington
 administrations that have for more than five decades
 promoted terrorism on an
 enormous scale across the globe. Administrations that
 have trained
 international military personnel in techniques of
 torture and terrorism in its
 meek-sounding School of the Americas. Administrations
 that have for 40
 years permitted and supported terrorist attacks
 against its island
 neighbour whose only crime was to advocate a different
 socio-political
 system. Administrations that introduced the world to
 nuclear holocaust, to
 carpet bombing, to horrendous use of phosphorous and
 napalm bombs.
 Administrations that maintain an economic blockade
 that is directly
 responsible for the loss of hundreds of thousands of
 Iraqi children's lives.
 Administrations that support one of the most
 repressive, brutal and
 racist regimes on earth with massive flows of money
 and weapons to use
 against the Palestinian people. Administrations that
 financed the Latin
 American dictatorships of the eighties and then later
 "apologised" for
 some of the unspeakable crimes they committed in the
 name of "democracy."
Tuesday was the anniversary of the US sponsored coup
 in Chile in which
 a legitimately elected government was brought down
 with extreme
 violence. The man behind this event and the covert
 wars within Cambodia and
 Argentina, Henry Kissinger, is one of those that today
 clamour for a
 "tough and decisive" response to the attacks in New
 York and Washington,
 who clamours for a blind war against an invisible
 enemy.
Few doubt that Washington has just suffered the
 consequences of its
 actions across the globe. Even if Osama Bin Laden is
 found to be
 responsible, the people of the US should know that he
 was previously trained and
 used by the CIA in its war against the former
 government of
 Afghanistan. George W. Bush will seek to take the war
 to another part of the globe
 where more civilians can pay for the death of US
 civilians without
 their blood and disfigured bodies being shown on CNN.
No solution will be forthcoming in the destruction of
 those deemed
 responsible. The enemy will still be there because the
 enemy comes from
 within. The CIA supported Noriega, Marcos, Sukarno,
 the Shah, Idi Amin,
 Mobuto, the Contras, Pinochet, the Argentinian
 generals, d'Aubuison,
 Somoza, Batista, Stroessner et al - the list is long
 and represents the
 obliteration of hundreds of thousands of civilian
 lives. In Panama 2,000,
 in Nicaragua 30,000, in El Salvador 75,000, in
 Guatemala over 150,000,
 in Indonesia 300,000.
 The people of the US can surely no longer remain
 immune from the
 terrorism their governments provoke, promote and
 tolerate in their name.
After the rage, the hatred, and the clamouring for
 vengeance have
 subsided, the time for reflection must come. War
 should be declared on the
 real threats to humanity: AIDS, racism,
 neo-colonialism, ruthless free
 market profiteering and Washington's "democracy" of
 domination. That way
 the poverty and desperation that creates the kind of
 hatred of the US
 that leads to such unspeakable acts of terrorism will
 be avoided.
 The security and welfare of the United States clearly
 depends on social
 justice for all. There must be a change in this US
 psyche of isolation
 and pre-eminence or we shall all be brought to the
 brink of disaster
 once more.
The people of Cuba indeed share in the pain and
 distress of their
 neighbours, but at the same time they are reminded of
 the fact that five of
 their own were recently found guilty in a Florida
 court for combating
 this very same kind of despicable terrorism that has
 so stupefied the
 world after its use against the US.
The chickens have come home to roost and there is no
 smugness or
 satisfaction in saying it -- just very sincere anxiety
 for what may follow.
Source: Radio Havana Cuba
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