Reign of Stupidity is the Actual Threat
11/21/2003 - History will record that the country of the Americans was the target of barbaric and deadly
terrorist attacks on September 2001. Unfortunately the leadership of that most powerful country in the
world was the poorest ever, lacking the ability to find the appropriate responses to the growing use of
terror by way of political language. The White House tenants composed of Christian fundamentalists and
far right conservatives excelled in stupid decisions, creating the actual dangerous threat Americans would
face in the future decades.
By Ndzana Seme
At the time when Americans felt that they were most vulnerable and needed protection the White House
chose to play dirty politics. The G. W. Bush administration found that the situation was opportune to
reinstate the ?Threat? as a means to uniting Americans behind their president and hopefully insure the
right wing decades of reign in Washington.
The ?Threat? had been successfully used in the past as a powerful means to either win or keep the royal
seat at the White House during the Cold War decades. The ?Threat? was very often fabricated by the
CIA, notably when this White House?s Cold War instrument presented the Soviet Union as a very strong
and dagerous economic and military power. After the Berlin Wall fell, Americans were surprised to find
out that the Soviet Union was just a third world country with a weak economy and a military capability
not worth any important threat to the U.S.
But yet the cost of the Communist Threat was millions of lives and economic disasters throughout the
world, without any form of reparation.
Instead of seeking and finding the most appropriate response to the growing scourge of international
terrorism, the Bush administration used the CIA to fabricate a new ?Threat?. Terrorism is viewed as a
new substitute for the Cold War.
Instead of terrorizing the terrorists as we wrote back on February 2003 they launched an empire building
agenda by creating an Axis of Evil. Guided by principles of cupidity and cynicism they ordered the
invasion of Iraq and the devastation and massacre of Iraqis in order to both take control of the second oil
reserves in the world and provide construction and armament contracts to American Right-wing-friendly
companies.
These unspeakable acts of terror perpetrated in Iraq were not ordered by the White House to stop any
terrorism at all. Instead they aimed at fuelling international terrorism because the Bush administration
wants terrorism to be the new Threat to the Americans and the world.
Instead of recruiting and training tens of thousands of undercover anti-terrorist soldiers to be spread out
in countries harboring terrorist cells, hunting down the networks of hate discourse, eliminating their
masterminds, destroying their training camps, and terrorizing their potential followers, the Bush White
House chose to mediatizing mass bombings of civilian populations presented to Americans as ?Them?
who ?Hate Us?.
Even though the values of patriotism glamorized are most embodied by immigrants representing one in
every four American soldiers being killed daily in Iraq -- while journalists such as the CNN anchor Lou
Dobbs strives to create a new war against immigration in the U.S. -- Americans would hardly see
foreigners otherwise than a threat and Americans would hardly be seen by other people otherwise than
the War Corps they have become, instead of the Peace Corps they have been since the 1960s.
The day anniversary of the death of the Peace Corps initiator, the U.S. president was delivering a speech
defending the use of ?preemptive? and invasion aggressions he initiated by way of dealing with the world
affairs.
The anti-American sentiment the Bush administration is stubborn to create and maintain today insures
Americans decades of future terrorist attacks. The current White House?s stupid decisions and use of the
media to show their atrocities as well as their short-sighted handling of the world affairs ? all things that
the terrorists want to justify their cause and increase suicidal terrorist recruits ? constitute the most
dangerous actual threat to the American people.
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