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Dear Friends,
For anyone not already acquainted with
the fact, Eric Margolis is a Western disinformation
agent who boasts, inter alia, of smuggling rockets
into the Afghan mujahedin in the 1980s and possessing
a host of intelligence contacts, including with the
CIA.
A quick Google search with the words "Eric Margolis
socialism" will demonstrate with whom we're dealing.
There is nothing remotely enlightened or progressive
about this individual, notwithstanding the fact that
his columns, from the very establishment Toronto Star
where he is the official foreign correspondent, have
been crossposted and linked on several US
'progressive' sites fairly regularly of late.
In fact, the only time he criticizes Western
militarism, aside from goading it into being more
aggressive (e.g. "Stopping Europe's New Nazis" and
"Serbia Needs Moral Cleansing"), is when one of his
presumed co-religionists is under fire.
As such he operates on a personal, and hardly
political or principled, agenda.
Other people are making the same points he is on
Afghanistan, Iraq and so forth; there's no need to
provide this enemy of ours with more exposure and
authority than his contacts in the intelligence
community have already succeeded in doing.
Respectfully,
Rick
--- Nicholas Camerota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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<div style='background-color:'><FONT face="Verdana,
Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"><STRONG><EM>Toronto
Sun</EM></STRONG></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva,
Arial, Sans-serif"> March 24, 2002 </FONT>
<DIV></DIV><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial,
Sans-serif" size=5><STRONG>Cowboy president rides to
the rescue </STRONG></FONT>
<DIV></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif">By
ERIC MARGOLIS <EM>-- Contributing Foreign Editor
</EM></FONT></P>
<DIV></DIV><FONT face="Courier New, Courier,
Monospace">A powerful car bomb explosion on Thursday
near the U.S. Embassy in Lima, killing nine and
wounding 30, was a disturbing prelude to the visit to
Peru this weekend of President George Bush, who has
vowed to "fight terrorism around the world." </FONT>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, Monospace">Bush
declared he wouldn't be put off by "two-bit
terrorists." But the suspected bombers, the notorious
Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, are anything but
"two-bit" terrorists. The Sendero has battled fiercely
for three decades to impose a Marxist dictatorship on
Peru patterned on Enver Hoxha's crazy Stalinist
Albania and Pol Pot's nightmare Cambodia. </FONT></P>
<DIV></DIV><FONT face="Courier New, Courier,
Monospace">Back in 1985, I was the first North
American journalist to interview Peru's then newly
elected president, Alan Garcia. I asked him how his
government was coping with the Sendero Luminoso, whose
guerrillas were terrorizing the Andes, waging urban
guerrilla warfare, and had almost brought the
government to its knees. </FONT>
<DIV></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, Monospace">"I can
assure you," Garcia said, "the security situation is
completely under control." Moments later, two mortar
shells exploded outside the presidential palace.
Garcia shrugged and gave a sheepish smile. </FONT></P>
<DIV></DIV><FONT face="Courier New, Courier,
Monospace">Peru's last president, the tough
authoritarian Alberto Fujimori, now in exile in Japan
and plotting a return, had nearly crushed the Sendero
and another dangerous Marxist guerrilla group, the
pro-Cuban Tupac Amaru. But after Fujimori was replaced
by the softer, more leftward leaning Alejandro Toledo,
Sendero regrouped and appears to be renewing its war
against the U.S.-backed government in Lima. </FONT>
<DIV></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, Monospace">This
time, the Sendero is being fuelled by a steady inflow
of drug money. Following the example of Colombia's
Marxist FARC and ELN narco-guerrilla armies, the
Sendero earns tens of millions annually protecting
Peru's expanding cocaine industry. The Bush
administration's efforts to combat the drug trade in
Colombia through spraying toxic pesticides and
attacking processing labs have merely pushed the
underground drug industry across the jungled borders
into Ecuador and Peru. </FONT></P>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><FONT face="Courier New, Courier,
Monospace">TOTAL FAILURE </FONT>
<DIV></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, Monospace">The
much-vaunted U.S. war on drugs has proven a total
failure in Latin America. The flow of cocaine and
heroin into the U.S. has not been reduced, in spite of
billions spent to block the flood of narcotics.
Ironically, the only nation where the U.S. war on
drugs did work was in Afghanistan - thanks to its
former Taliban regime. According to the UN drug
control agency, the Taliban virtually halted
cultivation and trade of heroin-producing opium
poppies. Afghanistan supplied 80% of Europe's heroin
and about 60% of America's. The American invasion and
overthrow of the Taliban handed power to the
Russian-backed Northern Alliance, which fully revived
the heroin trade and now controls 90% of drug exports.
</FONT></P>
<DIV></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, Monospace">In
Afghanistan, Bush's so-called war against terrorism
collided head-on with his war against drugs. The
latter lost. The Northern Alliance, the real power
behind the U.S.-installed Karzai regime in Kabul, pays
its fighters and buys its arms from the Russians with
heroin money. The U.S. simply turned a blind eye to
large-scale drug dealing by its new Afghan allies,
just as it did in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos,
Central America and, for years, Mexico. </FONT></P>
<DIV></DIV><FONT face="Courier New, Courier,
Monospace">The White House is now under increasing
pressure to increase the $1 billion in U.S. aid to
Colombia and switch from assisting a campaign against
coca producers to all-out combat operations against
FARC and ELN guerrillas. The Colombian government's
inept 136,000-man army has been unable to defeat the
FARC's and ELF's roughly 20,000 Marxist guerrillas, so
the U.S. is now being asked by Bogota for combat
troops and fleets of helicopters. An expanded war in
Colombia would quickly spill over into Ecuador, Peru
and possibly into Panama and Venezuela, all
economically stressed and politically shaky nations.
</FONT>
<DIV></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier,
Monospace">Growing instability and violence in
northern Latin America will challenge the Bush
administration's plans to launch a large crusade
against Iraq, and smaller ones against the diverse
Muslim groups opposed to American influence, or those
fighting for independence from oppressive rule - all
simplistically lumped together by Bush as
"terrorists." </FONT></P>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><FONT face="Courier New, Courier,
Monospace">Just two weeks ago in Afghanistan, the U.S.
lost eight soldiers and dropped 3,300 expensive
precision bombs against will-o-the-wisp opponents in a
failed battle in the Shah-i-Kot Valley (shades of
Vietnam's IaDrang Valley battles). America's arsenals
are depleted; its military forces stretched thin - and
the crusade against the nefarious "axis of evil"
hasn't even been launched yet. </FONT>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV><FONT face="Courier New, Courier,
Monospace">The 19th century American cynic, Ambrose
Bierce, observed that Americans learn their geography
from wars. Six months before becoming president,
George Bush couldn't name the leader of Pakistan -
whom he today hails as a champion of democracy and
America's new best friend. This weekend, the
non-geographic president will begin to discover the
complexities of long-neglected Latin America. He will
no doubt discover the continent is rich in new
"terrorists," as the Lima bombing amply demonstrated.
</FONT>
<DIV></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier,
Monospace">Terrorists in Peru and Colombia. Plotting
Cubans. Islamic fanatics in Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Yemen, the Philippines, Indonesia, Somalia, Sudan,
Syria, Lebanon, Libya, the West Bank and Gaza, Iran,
Iraq, Bosnia, Kashmir, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria,
Central Asia, Chechnya, Georgia, Saudi Arabia and the
Gulf states, Egypt and Paraguay. America's enemies are
everywhere. Even in Detroit and Brooklyn. </FONT></P>
<DIV></DIV><FONT face="Courier New, Courier,
Monospace">Bush says he will defend America by
fighting them all. But, as Frederick the Great rightly
noted, "He who defends everything, defends nothing."
</FONT>
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<DIV></DIV>
<P><STRONG><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial,
Sans-serif">Eric can be reached by e-mail at
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face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial,
Sans-serif">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT
face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"><STRONG>.
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