From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "The Secret Roots of War" by Mumia Abu-Jamal
THE SECRET ROOTS OF WAR
Why does a war begin?
That is, as the saying goes, one of those "$64,000
questions!" (As Mama used to say)
For there are as many answers, as there are wars.
Consider the Viet Nam War, which raged for overa decade, leaving
over 2,000,000 Vietnamese and over 60,000 Americans dead, as
well as a nationecologically ravaged.
On August 2, 1964, according to American pressreports, North
Vietnamese coast guards attacked two U.S. Destroyers sailing
in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Within a week the U.S. Congress passed the Gulfof Tonkin
Resolution, granting the president war powers, and the Vietnam
War was launched.
Years later, after the fires of war cooled toashes, we learn the press
reports were lies. Former CIA man John Stockwell wrote, inThe
Praetorian Guard (1991):
After midnight on July 30, 1964, Norwegian-built "SWIFTS"
or "NASTIES,"manned with CIA crews, attacked theNorth
Vietamese radar station on Hon Me island and bombarded
Hon Nguinthe Gulf of Tonkin.
The North Vietnamese sent a formal protest to the United
States.The frigate USN Maddox, which waspatrolling inside
North Vietnamese waters to provide cover for CIA marauders,
remained on station. Clearly provoked and pursuing the CIA
marauders, North Vietnamese moved to challenge the Maddox.
The Maddox fired first; the Vietnamese answered with
torpedoes that missed. A garbled version of the incident,
blaming the North Vietnamese, was trumpeted through a
cooperative media to the U.S. public and was used to justify
formal moves by Lyndon Johnson to launch the Vietnam
War(which had been in open planning stages for two years).
The rest is history. (p. 81)
A history written in blood, gore and genocidal death. That,
however, was then; what about now?
All American eyes are now focused on Afghanistan --the
land ravaged by over 8 years of war with the former Soviet
Union. Again, according to U.S.media reports, the U.S.
entered the country in reponse to the Soviet incursion, to
aid the mujahadin -- right?
In 1988, former U.S. national security advisor, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, granted an interview to the French newspaper,
Le Nouvel Observateur, stating that the U.S./CIA was in
Afghanistan months before the Soviets:
ZB: According to the official version of history, CIA aid
tothe Mujahadeen began during 1980, ... after the Soviet
army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec. 1979. But the reality,
secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise.
Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the
first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet
regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president
in which I explained tohim that in my opinion this aid was going to
induce a Soviet military intervention ...
LNO: You don't regret anything today?
ZB:Regret what? The secret operation was an excellent
idea. It had theeffect of drawing the Russians into the
Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? (p. 76)
The "Afghan trap" led to over 2,000,000 Afghan deaths,
6,000,000 exiles, and 20,000 Soviet troop casualties.
Provocations. Inducements.Media manipulations. Traps.
Spies. Covers. Millions dead. Millions exiled.
Why does a war begin? As Mama used to say, "Boy,
that's the $64,000 question!"
Copyright 2001 MAJ
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