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Tiger, tiger burning bright in the forest of the night
Two big stories broke this week on May day. Osama bin Laden, the Frankenstein creation of the United States military and intelligence operatives, was killed and then made to disappear. DC Comics in the newest issue of Superman has the Man of Steel, the believer in Truth, Justice and the American Way going before the United Nations to renounce his US citizenship. What the anvil, what the hammer… tension, apprehension and dissension have begun.
Osama bin Laden was a weapon we developed and utilized in the first Afghan war waged by the Soviet Union from 1979-1989. We supplied AK-47’s, Stinger missiles and built the Tora Bora base for Osama and the Mujihideen rebels. Mullah Omar, Taliban leader was also armed and supported by the order viagra US intelligence community, the CIA and the Mother Company (Oil cartel and Wall Street). They turned the Soviet adventure into a version of the US debacle in Viet Nam. After the Soviets left our monster killer had no one to terrify. A reason was needed, a cause, a crusade to push the American people into another war. Thus was created the mass destruction of 9/11. The first taste of total war on American soil since the Civil War burned into the American psyche. Some Viet Nam veterans said amongst ourselves, welcome to the war America. Thus it began again.
Superman, an alien, raised as an all American boy by the Kent family was a hero to all of us as children immersed in the comic book genre. He stood for Truth, Justice and the American way and possessed of superhuman strength, due to his alien birth on Krypton, fought for America. I feel I know why Superman would renounce his US citizenship, and justly so. As myself and other Viet Nam veterans have revealed we went to war and remained at war with ourselves over what we had done, seen and let happen. Perhaps Superman went to war for America, as an American fighting man and came home one day and realized he had become something other, a human being.
Supongamos, mi hijos, suppose this my children, Superman renounces his US citizenship becomes a world citizen and seizes Osama bin Laden to bring him to trial before the World Court at the Hague for crimes against humanity. The United States should have brought Osama to trial at the World Court just like the Nazi war lords and Milosevich. This would have been the right and just thing to do. But we could not risk that Osama would tell all that he knew about what we did in Afghanistan during and after the Soviet adventure. Osama knew too much
about CIA involvement in the heroin trade. He knew too much about illegal assassinations and renditons. He knew and would reveal the dark shadow of United States policies. In the end Superman might have to bring our own elected leaders before the World Court in the name of Truth, Justice and the Human way.
Dave Ionno
Viet Nam veteran Against All Wars
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