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From: John Roberts
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Subject: "The Secret Roots of War" by Mumia Abu-Jamal THE SECRET ROOTS OF WAR
Why does a war begin? That is, as the saying goes, one of those "$64,000 questions!" (As Mama used to say) For there are as many answers, as there are wars. Consider the Viet Nam War, which raged for overa decade, leaving over 2,000,000 Vietnamese and
over 60,000 Americans dead,
as
well as a
nationecologically ravaged.
On August 2, 1964, according to American pressreports, North Vietnamese coast guards
attacked two U.S. Destroyers sailing
in the Gulf of
Tonkin.
Within a week the U.S. Congress passed the Gulfof Tonkin Resolution, granting the
president war powers, and the Vietnam
War was
launched.
Years later, after the fires of war cooled toashes, we learn the press reports were lies.
Former CIA man John
Stockwell wrote, inThe
Praetorian Guard
(1991):
After midnight on July 30, 1964, Norwegian-built "SWIFTS" or "NASTIES,"manned with CIA crews, attacked theNorth
Vietamese
radar station on
Hon Me island and bombarded
Hon Nguinthe Gulf of Tonkin.
The North Vietnamese
sent a formal
protest
to the United
States.The frigate
USN Maddox, which
waspatrolling inside
North Vietnamese
waters to provide cover for CIA marauders,
remained
on
station. Clearly provoked and pursuing
the
CIA
marauders,
North Vietnamese moved to challenge
the Maddox.
The Maddox fired first;
the Vietnamese answered with
torpedoes that missed. A garbled version of the incident,
blaming the North
Vietnamese, was trumpeted through a
cooperative media to the
U.S.
public and was
used to justify
formal moves by
Lyndon Johnson
to
launch
the Vietnam
War(which had been in open planning
stages for
two
years).
The rest is history. (p. 81)
A history written in blood, gore and genocidal death. That, however,
was
then; what about
now?
All American eyes are now focused on Afghanistan --the land ravaged by over 8 years of war with
the former Soviet
Union. Again, according to U.S.media reports, the U.S.
entered the
country in
reponse to the
Soviet incursion,
to
aid the mujahadin -- right?
In 1988, former U.S. national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
granted
an interview to the
French newspaper,
Le Nouvel Observateur,
stating that
the U.S./CIA was in
Afghanistan months before the Soviets:
ZB: According to the official version of history, CIA aid tothe Mujahadeen began during 1980, ... after the Soviet
army invaded Afghanistan, 24
Dec.
1979. But the
reality,
secretly
guarded until
now, is completely otherwise.
Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed
the
first directive
for secret aid to the opponents of the
pro-Soviet
regime in
Kabul. And that very
day, I wrote a note
to the president
in which I
explained
tohim that
in my opinion this
aid was going
to
induce
a Soviet military
intervention
...
LNO: You don't regret anything today? ZB:Regret what? The secret operation was an excellent idea. It had
theeffect of drawing the Russians into
the
Afghan trap
and you want
me
to regret it? (p.
76)
The "Afghan trap" led to over 2,000,000 Afghan deaths, 6,000,000
exiles,
and 20,000 Soviet
troop casualties.
Provocations.
Inducements.Media manipulations. Traps.
Spies. Covers. Millions dead. Millions exiled.
Why does a war begin? As Mama used to say, "Boy, that's the
$64,000 question!"
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