Benghazi
Rice
Kigali
The unaddressed tension in the
room, like in one of the final investors meetings of the Madoff Fund, comes from the growingly corrosive conflict between Private Enterprise and the Public
Weal. In the so-called developed
world there is almost nothing left of the ‘Duties of the Crown’, as my friend
Pierre Péan refers to Government Social Services, that has not been taken over by Private (often sectarian or religious, tax-exempted) Entrepreneurs. In fact, once Public or Social functions, like Education, Law Enforcement and Corrections, even Civil Security in the waging of international
war and providing for national defense, have been refinanced and
rebranded so many times, and gone so long without showing any operating
advantages over Public Ownership and Administration (nationalization), that one cannot help but
feel we have been sold a time-share in Capitalist Hell.
This last election was a
perfect example of how, even when a vulture capitalist, the spitting image of
Big Business unrepentently come-out as Organized Crime is pitted against a
Legal Scholar and Social Organizer, a man whose whole history is in the service of the exploited
and indentured, nary a word is uttered about this dialectical
opposition—this Hegelian showdown between Master and Slave.
Gov. Romney’s campaign was based
on exclusion through a sectarian suppression of suffrage, while President
Obama’s, though the media, using the polls and the pols, would try to minimize
and otherwise distort it any which way they could, was the very essence of bourgeois Democracy: Inclusion through
Secularism, Universal Suffrage, and Majority Rule.
The President won reelection convincingly (a mandate arguably
greater than his first because the prospect of a reelection defeat
was now gone), but his victory was not a reflection of any great successes in
bringing about change in the disastrous directions the US has been taking for a
very long time. And all his
attentions to domestic policies, like healthcare and the various crises in the
financing (or lack thereof) of American production, distribution and consumption (or lack
thereof), kept him from really addressing the morbid late-stage malignancy
that has been torturing US Foreign and Military policies, with their instincts for
endless global wars against amorphous enemies to advance the irrational Privatization of daily life and the
consequent mass-liquidation of superfluous innocents.
However, it will soon become clear
if President Obama’s intentions to change the self-destructive direction in
which institutionalized Foreign and Military policies have been leading the nation, since at
least the end of the Cold War, on a trajectory that has turned US economic
culture into a long, pointless episode of "The Walking Dead," but has also eventuated in the
physical, infrastructural decimation of many non-aligned, independent-minded nations like Iraq,
Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, now Israeli-occupied Palestine, and soon,
perhaps, Iran.
Before the current aggression
against the Palestinians in Gaza, about which, as should have been expected, the
President has listlessly mouthed the lyrics to those loony tunes right out of the DoD
and State Dept. hymnal about Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorist
rockets—as he did with those merry melodies from the propaganda play-list about the monstrous tyrants Gaddafi
and Assad’s slaughtering their own people—the very people who overwhelmingly
supported them, thus necessitating NATO intervention to fix their mass hysteria with their mass deaths. But if it were not for
these mad, contorted non-issues based on false-flags, false-controversies and
false-consciousness, inside the amphitheatres of Western discourse there would be
only silence.
The asthmatic breathing, that
seeming death rattle coming from the geriatric unto moribund Republicans over
Susan Rice vis à vis Benghazi-gate is just such a FALSE CONTROVERSY—but one that
ALMOST GUARANTEES her disastrous promotion to be President Obama's second
Secretary of State. Just as Hillary Clinton, nominated for the post out of some smokey backroom Democratic Convention deal, should have been rejected by the Senate
for her lies about coming under Serb sniper fire on her arrival in Tuzla, BiH,
in 1996; so should Rice be rejected for her long-standing support of the
blood-thirsty Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and it ghoulish, mendacious leader,
the current president of Rwanda and indicted war criminal, Paul 'Pontius
Pilate' Kagame, whose support for the predominantly Tutsi M23 'rebel' group
(once headed by another indicted war criminal, Laurent Nkunda) in eastern
Congo, has recently provoked disagreeable attention from the UN (concerns that
Rice worked hard to suppress) and caused several of Rwanda's Western sponsors
to withhold promised support.
One of the reasons Benghazi-gate
is a still-born issue is because the US/Israeli security interests involved in
this latest Mossad strike against American military and diplomatic assets
(like Beirut in 1983, Dar es Salaam and Nairobi in 1998, and NYC and DC in
2001) will override any significant revelations as to what Chris Stevens and
the three CIA-trained Seals who perished on that day were doing in that rented villa in Libya's second city
and just with whom they all had been doing business.
But to drill through the roots
and lance the abscesses that have been inflaming US Foreign and Military
policies, it must be noted how Privatization has infected these once
governmental security concerns and why they will not be effectively addressed. Specifically:
1) That Tuzla, BiH, known, at
the time of the Balkan wars, as the spiritual capital of Bosnia's mujahadeen,
was, after the so-called Genocide of 8000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in July
1995, the destination for many Bosnia Army survivors of that months-long
stand-off against Gen. Ratko Mladic's Drina Corps. This northern Bosnian town
has since become the home of one of NATO's largest bases, Eagle Air Base, from
which an important number of bombing sorties over Iraq and Afghanistan have
been launched, and will certainly come into play significantly as hostilities
mount against Iran and Syria and throughout the ME and N. Africa.
2) That Susan Rice, through the
US DoD and State Department, as well as her close ties with USAID and the
Christian fundamentalists at the US Committee for Refugees, rather than
demurring from intervention in the 1994 Rwandan slaughter by refusing to use
the 'G'-word, actually promoted mass murder by clearing the path for Kagame and his Ugandan NRA
regulars, along with various African PMCs (mercs) working through Africom (then
Centcom) and their US and Belgian advisors, as well as a heavily-biased UN Peacekeeping
Force, to take the Rwandan capital city of Kigali (in a battle that some have
compared to the Nazi sieges of Moscow and Stalingrad), assassinate the
sitting presidents of Rwanda and Burundi (along with the Chief of Staff of the
Rwandan military in an enormous terrorist act that the UN to this day has not
seen fit really to investigate), and, with a final onslaught against the
majority MRND party and the Forces Armées Rwandaises (the FAR, the Rwandan government Army), trigger one of the largest mass slaughters in History—upward of five
million innocent dead to-date in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and the entire region of
the African Great Lakes. And the
cover up of this enormous crime against Humanity continues with the complicity
of the UN and the International Community by way of the illegal proceeding before the
ad hoc Tribunals in Arusha and The Hague, for Rwanda and Yugoslavia,
respectively.
So, the reason President Obama
and the US Congress must reject Susan Rice as the next US Secretary of State, a
gesture essential to any hoped-for eradication of the poisonous tree that has
become US Foreign and Military Policies—Western Security Policies, in
general—is that the blood of millions of innocent civilians (as well as
millions of soldiers, many of them still children, unjustly conscripted to fight against their own or their
nation's best interests), from Southeastern and Central Europe and Western Russia and the
former-USSR, to North and Central Africa, to the Middle East, to Central and
Southeast Asia, indelibly stains the hands of US administrations from Truman's
to Clinton's to Obama's (just to cite the putatively 'non-martial' governments run
by Democratic Party hacks).
Yes, Susan Rice is a woman of
color. But the most important consideration of her color is not of the
melanin on her brow, but of the crimson on her hands.
http://www.govexec.com/defense/2012/11/benghazi-may-be-least-susan-rices-problems/59580/
CM/P 21 November 2012
CM/P 21 November 2012
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