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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

THE DRAGON'S TEETH OF THE EVIL EMPIRE

DRAGON’S TEETH & SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS

By Michael Roloff 

At least since 1947 a succession of United States governments has been sowing dragons’ teeth  – 
failed states, endless wars, destitution, self-inflicted wounds, national immiseration - 
dragon’s teeth, big and small: between 1947 and 1953
election meddling in Greece and Italy, finessing the devolution of Colonialism in Indochina by letting the French dangle in the wind at Dienbenphu, the overthrow of 
democracy in Guatemala, the first of numerous dragon’s
teeth, sown in that region, the true molar there 
being Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs which, then, nearly led to a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United 
States. 
    The first really really big productive molar – disregarding Korea at the peril of my enumeration - under Ike and the Dulles Brothers,  Alan and John Foster, the third of the Dullesses, a bishop, always busy blessing! - 
however is the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 and installation of the dictatorial Shah – that molar 
has been sprouting baby teeth scores of years in 
the form of a regressive and aggressive theocratic 
regime that ensures forever war and vigilance.
   But the Wisdom Teeth among Dragons teeth, 
the real biggies of the lot, that engendered a 
host of baby dosies, are the Vietnam War and its 
spread to Laos and Cambodia, the destabilization of Afghanistan under Carter/ Brzezinski to draw in 
the Soviet Union bear and the United States 
forever more, and the conquest of Iraq which 
led to the war against ISIS and in Syria and 
and and and the occasional blowback that 
ensures further war. Not to be forgotten are 
the conquest of Libya; the overthrow of Allende 
and, overall, the vain attempt to go against 
the post-WW II post-colonial liberation tide 
to replace the British and French imperiums 
with an American one, nor the specific instances where liberators like Lumumba are assassinated, 
dragons teeth all that continue to sprout baby 
teeth galore; all, in retrospect, entirely 
superfluous; of benefit to no one but the military 
industrial complex and to the resource industries 
and to capitalism; each ventures of a pro-active 
kind and based on paranoia, whereas not only did 
there exist no danger there existed the opportunity 
for friendship, the possibility to assist in the 
liberation from colonialism. Instead there was
created the condition for forever war, no end of
enemies; all done purporting to advance democracy 
and to defend the nation from imminent danger of 
one kind or another; as well as to protect the 
nation from the Martians of Orson Well’s 
War of the World. In short, the United States is 
a nation that terrorizes itself and only needs to 
fear itself

February 2018

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