We Will Shape the Future

No one lives in a vacuum. What we do as a society always affects others. It is inevitable. And following that thought, aren’t we the product of those who preceded us? So are we victims of the past or heroes of the future?

The answer to that question is up to us.

We were attacked on 9/11. We reacted. Eight years later, with over a million dead, many more millions displaced, infrastructures destroyed, Billionaires made, our economy shattered, Torture accepted, Mercenary Corporate Armies empowered, a World aroused against us, and a Future threatening wars and more wars, who do we blame – those who attacked us, or should we blame ourselves for the reaction ( The War on Terror) and the carnage that has followed?

Although millions of foreign innocents have suffered, we have suffered mightily also – so who are the victims? Are we the victims, or is it those others that have suffered so much?

Did those foreign innocents do something to us to bring this carnage on themselves or are we to blame for allowing those that would profit from war to seize on an opportunity to instigate a war for profit?

Was there an avoidable event that happened prior to 9/11 that brought on that tragic morning in September and the consequences that followed? If there was such an avoidable incident what could it have been? If it could have been avoided, and we didn’t make any effort to avoid it, why did we allow it to happen? If that were true would that make us victims or perpetrators?

Wouldn’t it be beneficial to review the past and see if there was or were events that we should have paid heed to, and if we could identify those points, shouldn’t we make sure we remember what they were and examine how we addressed those impending problems in order that we might head off another 9/11?

What were the warning signs in those years before that morning, that we should have noticed, and when noticed, what should have been done? Well for one, Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi citizen, at the advent of Desert Storm, promised a declaration of war if the United States placed a Military base on Saudi soil. But at the time Bin Laden was a friend of the United States and was a freedom fighter in Afghanistan working with the United States to expel the Soviet invaders, and his transition from friend to foe could have been avoided. Unfortunately the Military wing of our Government wanted a base in Saudi Arabia and using Desert Storm, a conflict between Iraq and Kuwait, as its basis, pressured the Saudi Government into allowing a United States Military base to be placed on Saudi soil. Ben Laden then declared war on the United States.

Another warning sign was Desert Storm itself. For those who have forgotten, that war was to be between Iraq and Kuwait because of oil piracy committed by Kuwait against Iraq. But before Saddam invaded Kuwait, he asked the United States if they would intervene for Kuwait after he gave Kuwait an ultimatum to stop the piracy. The well-documented reply by the United States delivered to Saddam by U S Envoy April Glaspie was “The United States considers the argument between Iraq and Kuwait a local issue between the two and the United States would remain out of the conflict”. Saddam gave the ultimatum, Kuwait ignored it, Iraq invaded, and the United States went ballistic. And as they say, the rest is history. We should never forget that history plays itself out over many years and this episode most likely isn’t over yet, which brings me to some more happenings we shouldn’t forget – if we want to learn from history.

The Project For a New American Century outlined its proposal to promote the United States to Sole World Power in the early 90’s. One of the items of interest should be the word “Sole”. That word would indicate Empire building – The Worlds Policeman and the Worlds subjugation. Little countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and the rest of the Middle East shouldn’t be a problem, we can run over any one of them easily or any two or three, but there are some other strong Military powers on this earth, and embarking on subjugating them might be quite risky. One thing for sure is that “There will be blood” when the attempt starts. And blood is the fertilizer for the War Industry Profit garden.

Our Foreign Policy of conquest and domination of the Worlds resources can take us to the goal of Empire, but it can also take us to defeat and our own eventual demise. It is risky business for you and me, but is it risky for those who would initiate wars of conquest? The most dominant of the World’s organizations is the Financial sector. Wars don’t start without their funding and like several of the Nazi Financial and Industrial Corporations, they survived WWII and their Upper Management just moved into the winning Country, the United States, absorbed by U S Companies who were in partners with those Nazi Corporations before and during the War.

Every time you buy medicine or aspirins just remember Bayer is a name now identifying the German Industrial War Giant I. G. Farben, who’s business management were allowed to skip Nuremberg and go directly to work in the U. S. That’s what happened to the elite.
For regular people like you and me, somewhat over a hundred million died. But some U S Companies like say Ford, continued to supply German war needs, even after the war was ongoing. We didn’t do anything to them and they found that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, or should I say the World’s financial and War Industry Corporations came out of it better than they went in. That’s called profit.

So whether we know it or not, what we do, or don’t do, will affect the future and the future inhabitants of the world.

What we can do, and what we must do, is always punish criminals even if they are our leaders. Today’s Political Parties work our populace into a frenzy opposing the other Party. They keep us divided so that we are easy prey for their criminal activities.

Any party that advocates fear of the future instead of a mutual solution to problems is not worthy of our votes. How we use those votes will determine the shape of the future.