US, terrorist or policeman of the world?
Michael Dingake | Tuesday April 29, 2014 11:12
The speech was by Sir Winston Churchill, the British premier then. For some obscure reason, apparently the West had expected the USSR to abandon her socialist philosophy to dance to the tune of the West. How naive! A year earlier the United Nations had been formed by design of the allied powers as a centre to harmornise the actions of nations and settle disputes by peaceful methods. World War II had been too costly in human life and in economic terms. Sir Winston’s speech thus portended a new type of war to be fought between former allies - the Cold War - a war hopefully without firearms, yet with potential to degenerate into full scale war. The Americans under President Franklin Rooseveldt were a different lot from American generations of administration that followed the Rooseveldt administration. After a period of self-imposed isolation, Americans had received a rude awakening from a sneaking Pearl Harbour attack by the Japanese and had reluctantly been forced to declare war against the Axis Powers – Nazi Germany and Japan; from the reading of documents of the history of World War II, Rooseveldt had genuinely hoped for enduring peace and sincerely believed he could do business with Stalin! One wonders whether he would have embraced the war taunts uttered by the warmonger Sir Winston, to lead the cold war that ensued after his death. The post-Rooseveldt US even went further on their hot-and-cold war mission to manipulate the UN to fight a hot war in Korea and a division of Korea into the South and the North creating a permanent flashpoint in Asia.
After the humiliation of the French at Dien Bien Phu by the Vietcong the US believed she could take over the French colonial mandate in the region to impose regime change willy-nilly in her own image. Throwing everything she had: men, money, bombs including napalm bombs, the US eventually left Vietnam with tail between the legs defeated and booed by progressive Americans and the world! While the US fought her not-so cold wars in faraway Asia, trouble was brewing up in her own backyard. Cuba is a small island 150 kilometres off the coast of Florida State.
In 1952 Fulgencio Batista a US puppet had suspended the liberal 1940 constitution, obviously prompted by his mentor. In 1959 Cuban revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro overthrew Dictator Batista. The US of course resented what happened. You see, Cuba like all islands, is endowed with scenic beauty and under dictator Batista that beauty was enjoyed by the super-rich American ( the so-called three percenters) who made Havana their holiday resort, their backyard playground at the expense of the Cuban masses. Castro and his revolutionaries were a different breed, dead against exploitation of their island. Naturally the US was not amused by the flight of her puppet and denial of the super-rich ‘pleasure rights’ in her fantastic backyard. On 6 April 1960, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Lester Mallory submitted a memorandum to the administration which stated:
“The majority of Cubans support Castro...There is no effective political opposition... The only foreseeable means of alineating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship...every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba... denying money and supplies to Cuba to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.”
The conception of the blockade which has since strangulated Cuba for the last 54 years comes from the above memorandum. By 2013 the blockade had cost Cuba an estimated trillion dollars in economic terms. Cubans are still unbowed, they still love the Castro brothers and their country Cuba. The world would like to trade with Cuba, but the US with her extraterritorial laws besides politico- economic influence is capable of imposing her will on sovereign nations. America is powerful, militarily and financially the wealthiest country in the world. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 signalling the collapse of the USSR socialism, the US became the sole unchecked superpower! Cuba remains defiant, a hard nut to crack, and a thorn in the flesh. JF Kennedy tried the Bay of Piggs invasion and almost unleashed a world nuclear war, all in an attempt to subjugate people who love freedom and their independence.
The US is a bully, a terrorist state for all intents and purposes. She attempts to label Cuba a terrorist state; but the lie won’t stick because it’s hard to prove. Every year the UN absolves Cuba of violation of human rights as alleged by the US. The never-say-die US however is unrelenting. According to the Cuba Ambassador in Botswana H.E.Carlos, the US has opened a new front to destabilise Cuba, the social network cyber front, with a gibberish code name, ‘ZunZuneo’ tries to incite Cubans to revolt by creating an artificial perception of discontent among the masses.
Looking at the resilience of Cubans under assorted methods of intervention in their affairs: military intervention, coup plots, sanctions, sabotage and blockades, the latest warmongering social network will fail, it makes a mockery of the US mantra of democracy. The self appointed policeman of the world intoxicated with power, has now degenerated into a drone-armed terrorist state, whose career is destabilising independent states. She must stop! Think of the Roman Empire, and repent, YANKEE!