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BUSH'S ROME ON THE POTOMAC
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[Col. Writ. 11/2/02] Copyright 2002 Mumia Abu-Jamal
"But crowns are crowns. When rulers meet, their
embraces are of presence.
Absent cries make empty phrases..."
-- Wole Soyinka, "Mandela's Earth" (1988)
Have you ever wondered what politicians really think of each other?
Think of the last time you saw two politicians, say -- Bush and
Russia's Putin, grinning like Cheshire cats -- at a press conference.
Do you think they really care about each other?
Politicians are like actors for corporate and class interests.
It ain't personal; it's political.
When German parliamentary elections were held recently, the Social
Democratic Party's Gerhard Schroder vocally opposed the Bush War in
Iraq, and handily got re-elected. The SPD's justice minister, Herta
Daubler-Gmelin, raised hackles on both sides of the Atlantic when she
reportedly told metal workers, "Bush wants to divert attention from
his domestic problems. It's a classic tactic. It's one that Hitler
also used."
Official Washington and the corporate press had a conniption fit.
Hitler!?! The SPD quickly removed Frau Daubler-Gmelin from her post.
But, one wonders, who knows Hitler, or his tactics, better than the
Germans? Aren't they uniquely qualified to make that determination?
The Germans don't buy all of the American palaver about bringing
"freedom," "democracy," and McDonald's Quarter Pounders (with cheese)
to Iraq. Germans know that the 1929 Great Depression fueled the rise
of Hitler's Nazi Party. With the German economy in the dumps, Hitler
launched a racist campaign against Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs. Germany
annexed Austria, and invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland, making it
appear as if the Germans "liberated" these lands.
In other words, Hitler "want[ed] to divert attention from his
domestic problems."
Ask yourself; would Bush rather address the sad state of the U.S.
economy, the business scandals, or Iraq?
Every nation has its own interests.
The U.S. is interested in war only as tools to get that oil.
The Germans want the oil - period. War isn't in Germany's interest,
and may threaten their future access.
Another SPD member commented that Bush acts like he's Caesar
Augustus of the Roman Empire, and the German republic is the
troubling imperial province of Germania, which needs to be
disciplined (France must be imperial Gaul). Not surprisingly, this
historical analogy didn't excite Atlantean umbrage, as did the Hitler
reference.
Could it be because it's closer to the truth?
That a New Rome needs a New Caesar?
Copyright 2002 Mumia Abu-Jamal
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