September 10, 2002
Intended Instability?
by Larry Hawes
Dear BuzzFlash,
Daily the world seems less and less stable. What we used to know about common world agreements and our country's role within those agreements has changed dramatically. A past America was reflected in a 1963 speech by JFK, "The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression."
That vision of America has apparently changed. It appears we have not had enough, that we want more war and hate and oppression. We are now contemplating becoming an international aggressor state. Willing to, or more accurately insisting, we impose our form of government and moral righteousness upon other countries.
The opposition to an invasion of Iraq agree the result would be untold chaos and destruction in the region. On its surface that chaos and resulting debris seems as just so much consequential detritus. But within any pile of waste lies a fortune for those willing to look.
What treasures would be revealed within the waste of a Middle East suddenly more chaotic? Who would supply the needed weapons for the upcoming battles? Who would secure the world's oil supplies? Would we need more 'security' at home to 'protect' us from the growing evil and uncertainty? Who would profit from that security? Perhaps some more funding will be needed to help pay for the new "War of the Righteous"? Who would truly profit from the ensuing madness?
And ultimately what is the possibility we are witnessing, not a destabilized world created from outside, uncontrollable 'evil' forces but a destabilized world created intentionally by those who have always profited from the chaos of that instability?
Do not forget that in early 2001 there were three international governments experiencing real change. A real change toward a more cooperative and moderate future. One was Iran where an elected government was beginning to re-examine its former extreme Islamic ideas. The other two countries were North and South Korea. They had begun real dialogue for the first time in many years. Why were those two states named within our newly declared 'Axis of Evil' and suddenly destabilized? Was that a result of the inherent 'evil' within those cultures? Or was the red flag of fear raised intentionally to help destabilize those regions?
Perhaps the current strange and disjointed policies of our government reflect those destabilizing intentions and show themselves as cross purposes that lie within those policies. The stated purpose of our government's accusations of 'evil' is to identify future antagonists, eliminate them and create a more stable world. The stated purpose of our war with Iraq is to eliminate a demon threat, thereby creating a more stable world. But those stated purposes belie the unavoidable chaos of such actions, as if the true purpose was indeed to create that chaos.
Can anyone truly imagine a world more stable when war is used as the solution? Do we want to believe that those who are pursuing this war time effort don't know the amount of unrest that will ensue? Do we want to believe that those who pretend to protect us have our best interests in mind? Do we want to believe that any future war will be a simple good versus evil victory that will create a safer world? I think that is exactly what we want to believe - desperately.
We want to believe that any massive upheaval of the world as a direct result of our actions is a simple result of the 'Evil Them' doing it to us again. We want to believe our leaders have only our best intentions in mind and that we need protecting from the evil forces. And we might want to believe that, just like in the movies we, the good guys, will triumph despite all odds.
We also may, as a nation, be so convinced that we can do no wrong, and as the victims of external circumstances, that we will not look at the possibility that the chaos the world is experiencing is an intentional effort to gain more control over the world's resources and a frightened, easily manipulated public.
Only the future will answer these questions but what would we, as a nation and as a world do, if we discovered the current unrest and upheaval were really not a series of events thrust upon us as we stand innocently by, but a series of events created intentionally to distract a populace in severe denial? Would we allow it to continue? Not if the America described in 1963 has a breath of life left in it.
Larry Hawes
