Mission Accomplished
A friend recently told me to google the word “failure� for some interesting results. What came up was “Biography of George W. Bush.� There was also a disclaimer from Google that the link wasn’t their idea, that the search engine had been “googlebombed.� They go on to explain that “determined pranksters� can skew search results by linking words to certain sites. The explanatory blog, dated September of 2005, blames “a number of webmasters� for this googlebombing.
Regardless of what one may think of Mr. Bush personally, more and more people are coming to the realization that the war in Iraq, and, by extension, the War on Terror, have failed in their stated objectives. However, they have succeeded in doing what they actually set out to do: enriching a small number of powerful people and providing an excuse to suspend treaties and the Constitution, and providing the APPEARANCE of protecting Americans from external threats.
The “War on Terror�, it turns out, is not about eliminating terrorism, which has become an effective means of combating the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago. Rather than eliminating terrorism, the “War� foments it, thereby ensuring it will go on indefinitely. It’s like the “War on Drugs�: NO one, conservative or liberal, would argue the war on drugs has been successful. After decades of spending billions of dollars and incarcerating millions of people, only the braindead could actually believe there are fewer drugs being used than before the “war� began. Instead, they are more widespread than ever, which was the actual intent all along. The only thing that’s changed is the mafiosi and CIA types are making more money than ever selling them. And Democrats as well as Republicans, paid by Jack Abramoff and his friends, can say “Look how much we’re doing to save the children from drugs.� Meanwhile the kids are higher than ever, CAMP notwithstanding.
The recent wholesale decimation of Lebanon by Israel, ostensibly aimed at Hezbollah but curiously targeting infrastructure and non-combatant refugees, and even UN peacekeepers, was a replay of what the US has been experiencing in Iraq: if you bomb people, they get mad at you. Israel hoped to bludgeon the Lebanese into hating Hezbollah by blaming Hezbollah for what Israel was doing to them. Instead, the Lebanese now see Hezbollah as their best and only friend.
Similarly, only the braindead could actually believe Iraq is stabilizing, there is no civil war, and the Iraqi people love Americans. Going on four years of warfare, the killing and wounding of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and tens of thousands of Americans, and the spending of hundreds of billions of dollars on Halliburton, The Lincoln Group, Exxon, etc, America is worse off by far than it was before 9-11. But Dick Cheney, George Bush and their CEO buddies are far better off, and that’s what counts.
The mission HAS been accomplished; it just wasn’t the one we thought it was.