Two Hearts

Maureen Dowd, Maureen Dowd, Maureen Dowd. When have two opposing hearts had so much of each other on their minds? Of course my reserve heart has been moved to a secure spot behind my right knee. She’s after me again in today’s Times.

It’s the old taunt about not catching Osama bin Laden. She’s smarter than ‘Grey-Boy,’ too, but doesn’t quite get it either. It’s an old trick, called ‘Wars of the Stooges.’ If, you, the owners of a country are taking away rights, privileges, shares of wealth etcetera; you must provide suitable distractions.

Look at four of our last ‘wars:’ Manuel Noriega, former dictator of Panama had been on the C.I.A.’s payroll. Saddam Hussein, whom we have had the honor of fighting twice was our de facto ally against the Iranians in the mid-eighties.

We sent Rumsfeld there several times to shake Saddam’s hand. Once to sell them a pipeline deal and once on behalf of the Reagan Administration to hand-over satellite intelligence and billions of dollars in ‘agricultural assistance’ made fungible just for him so he could turn it into cash for the arms market.

Poison gas for Saddam? We and our Western allies made all that possible. In between we created the ‘mujahideen’ and thereafter the Taliban with two billion dollars. A billion from our taxpayers and another billion of recycled petro-dollars via the Saudis. So indirectly Osama bin Laden and his ‘computer data-base’ (Al Qaeda) of mujahideen have been a creation of our Foreign Policy.

You need wars and the threat of war as a suitable distraction. Who we gonna fight; China? That would be a real war with real consequences. We’d prefer to hand the Chinese our industry, give them to Wal-Mart as America’s supplier and borrow our money back from China at modest rates. This only makes sense, of course, if you understand our final game plan [Yuk, yuk].

But Maureen, Maureen, Maureen. --I need to remember not to move my head too suddenly as the personality switching-device could self-engage. I have learned to learn about her, without becoming her (again).