2/28/96, Golem [PNews moderator, Hank Roth] wrote:
>Was there another way for Cuba to handle this latest crisis? I think there
>must have been. They can't take the high ground on this one. I say it is
>immoral to defend the taking of lives by blowing them out of the sky. It
>was stupid, and it justifies the international condemnation it is getting.
>I can't support an immoral act, the flagrant murder of unarmed pilots
>whether over international or Cuban airspace.
If you look at the history of USA-initiated wars, going right back
to the Mexican American War, there's a very frequent pattern. The U.S.
provokes an incident which it can then react to. The media jumps in to
sensationalize and demonize. After that, the actual motivation of the U.S.
comes into play, and becomes the agenda for the war.
War Incident
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mexican border conflict in Texas (caused by belligerent U.S.
scouting parties)
Civil Fort Sumter shelling
WWII Pearl Harbor (forced by FDR oil blockade)
Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin (provocative U.S. Navy maneouvers)
Grenada an assassination (facilitated by the CIA)
Panama shooting of a GI (wandering where it was inevitable)
Iraq invasion of Kuwait (invited by Sec'y State)
The U.S. has obviously been preparing to play the Cuba card for
some time. This election year is the perfect time for Clinton to get his
stripes. No private flight occurs over Cuba if it isn't part of CIA
stragegy. The overflights were well-planned and timed provocations, whose
outcome was predicatable, and which is now being exploited according to
plan.
Hank's attitude is exactly what was intended. It is precisely the
_opponents_ of a war that are the target of a provocation-incident
propaganda exercise -- the incident is carefully selected accordingly. The
flights would have persistently increased in frequency and blatancy for as
long as it took to get Cuba to respond.
Stand by for the next in a series of USA neo-blitzkrieg rampages:
Grenada, Panama, Iraq, and now Cuba.
Don't be duped,
-rkm
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