On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Arthur Cordell wrote:
> I think that in 1989 or so, when "the wall" came down, the world missed an
> opportunity to actually move toward world peace. Actually it was the US
> that missed the opportunity. In the face of the collapse of the USSR the US
> could have started a move to global disaramament. Wow.
...
> It didn't. Wonder why. Rather historians
> in 50 or 100 years (if there is a history to write) will wonder why.
Isn't the answer obvious? The US gov't didn't do that because it is in the
pockets of the armaments industry and wants global hegemony. Btw, this
scheme started at least half a century _before_ the cold war -- not only
"missing opportunities for peace", but actively creating/promoting
opportunities for war.
Brad McCormick replied to Arthur:
> That someday was yesterday.
>
> And, as you say -- and as the NYT says in a Week in Review
> piece about Al Qaeda today: That opportunity is gone. Osama
> bin Laden opened Pandora's Box: a grass-roots level world-wide
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> distributed terror network which seems to be something new
> in history -- a BRILLIANT IDEA
Was it Osama who opened Pandora's Box, or wasn't it rather the US/CIA
who opened Osama-Pandora's Box (against the Soviets) ? As Selig Harrison
from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars put it (at a
security conference half a year before 9/11):
"I warned the CIA that we were creating a monster."
Greetings,
Chris
