 Suppose
that some time in late 2000, Russian and Chinese leaders, with the
covert support of some other national leaders, were convinced that the
US election results had been materially altered by a small right-wing
clique, and that as a result the US was in fact no longer a democracy,
and its weapons of mass destruction, now apparently in the hands of an
unelected, psychopathic and illegitimate group of radical religious
extremists, posed an imminent threat to world peace.
And suppose that as a
consequence Russian and Chinese forces were sent to quickly and
decisively intervene to bring about 'regime change' in the US and
return the country to stability.
And suppose that as a result these forces used secret new weaponry to remove this illegitimate government, dropping weaponized anthrax
as a carrier for smallpox (the stuff that mysteriously disappeared from
Siberia after the breakup of the Soviet Union), to inflict 'Shock &
Awe' on this dangerous clique and subdue any supporters it might have
across America. Suppose that, day after day, waves of planes dropped
tons of these deadly chemicals on alleged 'strongholds' of the
illegitimate regime all across America, continuing long after most
members of the government and the military and any of those close to
them had been eliminated by the deadly and fast-acting toxins. And
suppose that, in their zeal, the patriotic coalition fighters sometimes
got carried away and replaced the flag of America with their own
liberating country's flag.
And suppose that
inexplicably the usurping 'President' and 'Vice-President' of the US
and a few other members of the inner circle who had seized power
illegally were not found. The invading force therefore had to remain,
on the chance that these psychopaths, or some other extremist group,
might seize power again before law and order and democracy could be
restored.
And suppose that, this
being a very costly war, the invading force decided to confiscate
America's most profitable assets, and put their own people in charge of
them, to pay for the cost of the war and incidentally take some of
America's vast wealth for themselves.
And suppose that the
situation in America quickly degenerated into chaos and anarchy, with
people rioting, and looting of the Smithsonian and the Library of
Congress and the now-abandoned, chemically poisoned mansions of the
obscenely wealthy Americans who had allegedly supported the
illegitimate regime. So the invading coalition, not receiving the
heroes' welcome they had expected for liberating America from the
illegitimate government, had to send in an occupying force to try to
re-establish order, and they selected a Chinese general to run the
country on an indefinite interim basis.
And suppose that the
arrogant, swaggering Russian and Chinese leaders warned their own
people that this would be a long and drawn-out entanglement, but that,
as justice and the true will of the people had finally prevailed in
Vietnam, so would it prevail in America. And suppose the Russian and
Chinese media meekly acceded to these arguments and presented their own
leaders' smug and cynical lies as unquestionable truths, and assailed
independent evidence of Sino-Russian excesses as 'treasonous' attempts
to demoralize the liberating forces.
| This is of course a highly
improbable scenario, and an unfair analogy. Before you flame me, please
note I'm not making an argument of equivalency here, moral or
otherwise. My purpose is simply to get you, dear reader, to put
yourself in the position of someone in a certain mideastern country who
is in precisely this situation today. |
So just suppose that all of
the above had happened. Now picture yourself in 'post-war' America, six
months after the end of 'major combat operations', and ask yourself
these questions:
- Would you want the occupying Sino-Russian forces to remain
in America until law & order and democracy could be restored on
their terms, or would you prefer them to leave quickly so Americans
could sort out their own mess, come what may?
- Would you welcome a UN Administration, essentially run by
foreigners, to run the interim American government, the police, and the
most profitable enterprises for a protracted period of time, at least
until the majority of the UN decided America is once again ready to be
run by Americans?
- Would you resent the seizure of American assets to finance
the war and to profit the friends of the occupying nations, and the
inability of the occupying force to deal with rampant crime and
corruption?
- If support for the Sino-Russian invasion back in Moscow was
fueled by an utterly discredited theory that the illegitimate American
government had somehow been behind previous attacks by Chechen
terrorists in Moscow and St. Petersburg, what would your opinion be of
Russian conservatives and media that continued to use this fraudulent
theory as the primary justification for the attack on America?
- If you lived in this ghastly situation, where your economy
was in ruins, the war had cost you your life savings, your job, many of
your loved ones, and you lived in constant fear for the life and safety
of your family, what would you say and how would you behave if young
Sino-Russian troops who spoke no English pounded on your door looking
for 'sympathizers' of the deposed American regime?
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