Friday, June 02, 2006
Reagan Would Be Disappointed
So the news floated past me last month and I didn’t blog about it, but the US has been covertly supporting warlords in Somalia as they wage war against Islamic groups for control of the capital.
This stinks of Cold War thinking, of Eliott Abrams’ hand in foreign policy, although he’s in charge of policy at the NSC for the Middle East. I know there are many like-minded people around him at the NSC.
That’s one thing I like about Dubya: he doesn’t beat around the bush, pardon the pun. He just flat-out rehires Abrams and puts him on the NSC. There’s no real subtlety there. You can get a good idea of the administration’s direction knowing that a convicted felon is running the Middle East department at the National Security Council.
I’ve been waiting for Preznit Drinky to go all Reagan on our asses and fund terrorists and death squads for five years now. He’s done everything else: explode the deficit with massive military expenditures? Check. Fearmonger the public into supporting his belligerent foreign policy? Check. Loot the treasury for the benefit of his corporate masters? Check. Rape the environment and muzzle the EPA? Check. Lie constantly and seemingly without control? Check. Violate US and international law and then wave a contemptuous hand at protestors? Check.
Where are the death squads, Drinky? Your CIA has “disappeared” what, 90 people? A hundred? Reagan would not approve.
Perhaps these Somali warlords are just the tip of the iceberg. Perhaps the CIA has been funding the janjaweed militia, or guerrillas in West Africa. Hey, Elliott! What are doing in Washington, for God’s sake? Isn’t this your area of expertise?
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 4:13 PM 
