All Dressed Up To Kill, But Nowhere To Go

By: Abeba Isahac

“we are running out of enemies” is a statement reportedly to have been made by a once USA Secretary of State. In other words, what the world body today is supposed to understand from the bizarre and lawless behavior of the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and others with not so loud voices, but nevertheless with equal muscles and enough acquiescence to evil doings, is that, they have not acquired and accumulated all that, state of the art, deadly weapons, and ammunitions of mass destruction, just to have it pile up in storages, waiting for world war three to happen, while the rest of the world enjoyed peace!

In addition to helping promote sales for the gun industry, who are heavy lobbyists and generous contributors, come election time in the USA, as well as getting rid of relatively obsolete weapons, and making space for newer and more sophisticated, state of the art, weapons of mass destruction, they also want to keep reminding the rest of the world, from time to time, of their might and power, and possibly intimidate and deter those who might show courage by daring and challenging them, as they forbid them to acquire similar defensive mechanisms. Therefore, in order to achieve all this, they of course would need to create pretexts for wars, if for nothing else, just to try out the efficacy of their newly acquired and modern weapons of mass destruction, as they did to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan, in 1945, at the end of WWII, dropping on them their newly acquired, one of a kind, weapon of mass destruction, the atomic bomb, which, according to the Guinness Book of Records, killed 155,200 people. That is the whole story behind all the current chaos, madness, belligerence, and pretext finding for contemplated future preemptive attacks, so far. Because, what is the use of accumulating all that might and power, if it cannot be demonstrated or utilized? It would be like getting all dressed up to kill, but with nowhere to go.

By now, every child and layperson knows, that, whenever the United Nations drag their feet, wasting a great deal of time in endless gatherings, there is something fishy brewing. There was not much dilly dallying when Saddam Hussein was attacked after he invaded Kuwait, or when Yugoslavia was attacked, and nor was there any delay in attacking Afghanistan, Iraq again, or even Lebanon! Why? Because it all has to do with the interest the United States had in them, which demonstrates that some things can be expedited. But of course, obviously, Darfur is another matter, as was Rwanda. The United Nations and the United States, are one and the same, and so are all the rest, such as World Bank, IMF, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, CPJ, NGOs and their likes. All come from the same BIG pot as there is not an iota of disinterested benevolent intention in all that they do.

That is why the woyane of Ethiopia are able to get away with illegal intervention, intransigence, mass murder and belligerence, and that is why the Israelis can thumb their noses at the world community and say “we do not care what anyone says!” and go on assassinating, kidnapping and imprisoning Palestinian people with impunity claiming self defence without any viable proof, as they continue kidnapping elected and appointed government officials, and indiscriminately destroying their homes and property, in some cases annihilating whole families without leaving a trace. All this is because the United States considers them as allies and backs them with its veto vote at the UN. And in return, these two evil allies, among others, end up becoming surrogates for places the USA does not want to dirty their hands, but where they stay behind the scenes to see them through, which, in some cases, has not always worked in the past, because the USA has the bad habit of abandoning its allies when things get tough. Nevertheless they make it up to them through monetary compensation, free supplies of ammunition or protection from UN sanctions.

I remember reading somewhere that Israelis, in addition to the yearly billions of US dollars that they receive as gifts from American taxpayers, are also the major inheritors and recipients of comparatively obsolete (2^nd hand) weapons of mass destruction that the USA replaces by more sophisticated, state of the art, new weapons of mass destruction. And who knows, they might even throw some into the black market for Africans to be able to buy it in order to kill each other, especially on days where a semblance of democracy is exercised through elections. Then, they blame Eritrea for supplying Somalia with guns.

This is not all, but who wants to go on and on detailing the injustices, intrigues, deceptions, and the crimes against humanity which has been, and still continues to be perpetrated by those affluent terrorists who are traumatizing some, and intimidating others, for not submitting and not following or complying to their evil ways?

Now, in the Horn of Africa, they are working through their media surrogates. When their gimmick of supporting the intransigence of the woyane did not work, and when they saw that Eritrea, having finally wizened up to their evil intentions and tricks, was not going to fall into their trap, but would continue forward in building up and protecting the country and taking care of its people, leaving it to time and the truth to solve the problem, they went hopping mad, and let their wild media surrogates loose, to besmirch her name in which every way they could, in order to isolate her from the rest of the world as much as is possible. Anyway, that was the idea, which did not happen, but which rather seems to have back fired. All this, because Eritrea refused to deviate from, but rather wished to honour the agreement she had signed into, and thereby respect and abide by the rulings and findings of the international court.

The latest gimmick is of course, as a cover up to their wasted millions of dollars worth support to the Somali warlords, and to obscure the presence and direct involvement of their woyane surrogates in the Somali war, which fact even the international community there has attested to, as though finding ammunition and weapons were a difficult thing to do, thanks to all the dealers around that area, including Israel who used to even supply South Africa during the apartheid era, they are now trying to implicate Eritrea as the source from where the Somali Islamists are getting theirs’. On the other hand, if they had gotten it from Israel, it would of course not have mattered. The idea was, since, according to the rumors they had tried to spread, Eritrea refused to restart any war with the woyane or anyone else, they again want to spread the false rumor that they are fighting it out in Somalia, thus trying to ignite war in that region from every direction. They have even invited the Eritrean opposition group to join them in this evil endeavor.

When one looks at the world atlas, Europe and North America do not, after all, anymore look that huge, especially nowadays. Are perhaps the chickens coming home to roost, after all?!!!

I read this title, ‘chickens coming home to roost’ on an article written in the July 24 issue of Newsweek, where its author, Rami G. Khouri, editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper and a syndicated columnist. continuous to expound:

Israel is like an aging boxer who packs a mighty punch that is no longer effective because its intended victims know how to absorb it. and evade it—and, more significantly, how to counterpunch with blows of their own.

For the world's only global power, America is peculiarly powerless in the current crisis in the Middle East, due to its own biased policies

And so is the intention and message of this article, to convey to the United Nations and the United States that their old tricks do not work anymore, and that their camouflaged evilness has been unveiled, for all the world to see. Unless they can show some evidence, they cannot continue to claim ‘self-defence’ or “terrorism” or accuse others of anything, especially their claim that Somalia has become a fighting ground for the Eritreans against the woyane. They will have to show some proof!

If truly the USA and their surrogates want to get rid of terrorism, all they need to do is cease and desist their evil ways, that is, to live, and let others live as well, and while they are at it, to stop supporting and encouraging intransigent and lawless entities, the likes of Israel and the woyane of Ethiopia. Preemptive wars in the name of democracy will also have to stop. If the gun maker moguls would also curb their greed and perhaps find a different profession, like coming up with new medicines for all the new diseases of the world, then, with a few more initiatives, terrorism from both sides could be eliminated in no time.

What, after all, is terrorism, but a weapon of the poor, the helpless, the powerless, the trodden upon, and the hopeless; of those who have been unfairly treated, humiliated, and cornered against the wall, time and again, causing rage and anger to fester in them? How else then to release that anger and to fight off the arrogant greedy bullies of the world? People who commit such atrocities upon other human beings, had it coming to them, and should know that they have no right to retaliation, in the name of self defence. It is the oppressed, and not the oppressor, who has that prerogative and right to do so.

If I had a voice at this UN General Assembly where leaders from all over the world are gathered, this, and a little more, would have been my speech.

September 19, 2006