Saturday, February 26, 2011

The Beginning of the End

The popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Bahrain marked the beginning of the end of the American Empire, and Western Europe, in those regions. Since they won the Second World War the United States, despite all their fine words about democracy, supported the most infamous dictators, corrupt and bloodthirsty, as long as they did the comfortable, when they are not directly instigated the military coup.

And that's imperialist realpolitik has always backfired and put them in untenable situations. Support for the Cuban dictator Batista generated Castroism. Organized by the military coup against Salvador Allende, Henry Kissinger, who is guilty of being a socialist and not prone to the interests Yankees, led Chile, although with time, in the "line Chávez" independence of most Latin American dall'ingombrante protection Washington.

Support for the Shah of Persia which was coated yes and no 2% of the Iranian people, a rich middle class while the rest of the country was starving, and who ruled with the Savak, the most notorious secret police of the Middle East, which is all say, has given birth to Khomeinism the source of the resurgence of Islam.

The substantial support for the "warlords" paved the way for the Somali Islamic courts, much like the Afghan Taliban, who reported in that country, will precipitate in the fullest, the law and order, albeit a tough order, and a harsh law, sharia. Support for "Afghan warlords, Massoud, Dostum, Ismail Khan, the Taliban that they had brought six years of peace after so many of the war in Afghanistan, put them in an untenable situation, having regained control of the guerrillas' 80% of the country, so now go around and saucer pity from Mullah Omar mediation.

But the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan has awakened the Taliban in Pakistan at the beginning were a religious movement, though full, but peaceful and not at all subversive, so much so that supporting the government of Benazir Bhutto, and now are armed, and strive to make guerrillas seize power in Islamabad.

The difference is that Afghanistan, armed as it is so antediluvian, is not a danger to anyone, even if the Taliban would return to power, Pakistan has the atomic bomb instead. In pursuit of an imaginary danger Americans have created a real one. In recent decades the U.S. has supported the Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, has just run off with the chest facing the wrath of his people, the Egyptian dictator Mubarak kicked and now dying at his villa in Sharm el Sheik, argued in 1991, cutthroat when Algerian generals in that country's first free elections the FIS (Islamic Salvation Front) had the misfortune to win at low reins, with 78% of the vote, and then those generals in cahoots with the West canceled the elections and with the pretext that the FIS would have established a dictatorship reiterated the legitimacy of what was already there.

Now the riots in the Maghreb, Egypt, Bahrain (where there is the usual American base), Libya (Qaddafi also became drinking when he set up business with the West), change all the terms. It is true that the Americans have already managed to put the hat on the Egyptian people's revolution, transforming it into a military coup.

But from now on will be much more difficult to control the various situations. The outlet of these riots, they say, is unpredictable. Not really. It is very likely that these people once freed of dictators, end up, sooner or later, to become independent even from the puppeteer who for decades has operated them for his own use and consumption.

, February 26, 2011

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