FANTASY BECOMES A NIGHTMARISH REALITY
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political Activist
Forget Iran.
Let’s worry about a nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Yes.
A nuclear-armed Pakistan.
This isn’t just some fantasy spiel concocted by the Bush administration over the case of phantom weapons of mass destruction with Iraq–or the possibility that Iran might be developing nuclear weapons.
No.
This is reality.
The US’s worse nightmare imaginable.
For years now, we’ve heard the Bush and neocon cabal tell us that their worse Cold War fears is that terrorists somehow get a hold of some nukes and detonate them abroad or on US soil.
The perfect harbinger to and end to our democracy.
They’ve been telling us that we should be vigilant and fear everyone around us whom is not an American citizen. (a.k.a: Muslims)
They’ve told us that if we didn’t rat out those whom we saw as a threat–we would only play into the terrorists’ hands.
Oddly enough, Pervez Musharraf’s recent actions in Pakistan seems to have born out some of those fears.
But let’s not get a hold of ourselves here and start preaching doom and gloom just yet.
After all, we supported this latest military strongman (for democracy’s sake–naturally), and we’ll go on supporting him until it’s convenient for us to either cut ties with that country and our former ally–or invade.
We did it with Iraq. So why not Pakistan?
Of course, with Musharaff cracking down on dissenters, the media, and the opposition–he’s making the terrorists’ job of obtaining nuclear matériel that much easier.
And given the fact that we practically gave Pakistan the weapons technology and material to make nukes–that Cold War fantasy of terrorists getting their hands on them…
Makes it all the more real.
And to think…we have Bush to thank for that?
Who would’ve thought: A US President supposedly upholding freedom and democracy–by giving the terrorists just what they could’ve wanted and more...?
Only because our esteemed President (George W. Bush) thought it would be swell!–to park some nuclear weapons in the middle of a predominantly Muslim country?
I guess it is really true what they say about people and their ambitions these days: You really don’t need a brain to become President of the United States of America!
Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.com
Labels: Al-Qaeda, fantasy, Iran, Iraq, Musharaff, Muslims, nightmare, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, President Bush, terrorists, US
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