THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2006
acfalange US PROXY DESTABILISES NEIGHBOUR
Ethiopian armed forces have now effectively conquered a neighbouring state, Somalia, at the behest of the USA, our global mono-power. The usual excuses are being manufactured by the aggressor:
(1) it felt 'threatened' by its weaker neighbour. How? Ethiopia has the region's largest army, an air force, tanks, helicopter gunships, missile batteries, etc - all which the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) lack. Like all Somali para-military forces the UIC rely on 'gun-trucks' usually mounting only heavy calibre machine guns.
(2) the neighbour was a 'threat to regional peace and stability' . How? The so-called Somali Transitional 'government' (STG) controlled only one town, Baidoa, and only that with the aid of 8,000 Ethiopian storm-troopers. The Court's Union brought the only peace and stability Somalia has known in 15 years.
How could this be a 'threat to peace & stability'? Obviously we are dealing with a twisting of definitions, just as when the USA claims it wants 'a wave of democracy to sweep the Middle East' yet actively undermines the only two elected democracies in the region - HAMAS-ruled Palestine and Iran.
If we see the Ethiopians as mis-using language in the same way as the Neo-Con ruled USA, it all becomes clear. Let's see the Ethiopians merely as tools of US foreign policy. This became necessary, from the US stand-point, when the UIC defeated the last US-backed warlord factions still holding out in Mogadishu.
The bottom line is this: does the West really care about the Third World? If so they must allow it to evolve its own forms of government, not apply a Procrustean bed of 'democracy' to all and sundry. Not only is it culturally insensitive but doomed to failure. Why not try to paint them all white while you're at it, Mr Bush?
