Ameryka prowadzi wojne na dwa fronty. Od lat 30. ubieglego wieku tzw. "wojne z narkotykami", na ktora wydaje miliardy dolarow rocznie i zwyciestwa nie widac nawet na horyzoncie po 70 latach tej wojny. Od 2001 roku rozpoczela druga wojne tzw. "wojne z terroryzmem". Zobaczymy jaki bedzie efekt tej drugiej wojny po 70 latach.
Wlasnie otrzymalem najnowsze kwietniowe wydanie magazynu "High Times" (http://www.hightimes.com/ht/home/), a w nim wspanialy artykul Davida Bienenstocka pt. "The Iraq War: on drugs", warty zacytowania w calosci. Kiedy Amerykanie stworzyli Talibow liczyli, ze skoncza oni z produkcja opium i dokopia Sowietom. Sowietom dokopali, producentow opium wieszali i obcinali im glowy. Amerykanie byli zadowoleni. Az do momentu kiedy Talibowie wysadzili posagi Buddy i pokazali paluszka Amerykanom.
W miedzyczasie Amerykanie prowadza juz od lat "wojne z narkotykami" takze na swojej polkuli w krajach latynoamerykanskich. Tam bombardowali napalmem i innym truciznami uprawy koki. Tak sie przejeli ta wojna, ze prawie cala poludniowa Ameryka wymknela im sie spod politycznej kontroli. Latynosi demokratycznie wybrali sobie liderow, ktorzy albo sa socjalistami albo komunistami i w pelni chca zalegalizowc produkcje koki.
"Who lost Latin America?" is the question the next Democratic contender for the presidency may legitimately be able ask. For since the election of Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela in December, 1998, there has been an inexorable erosion of U.S. influence south of the Rio Grande. The most recent manifestations are the election victories last month of the coca-chewing populist Evo Morales in Bolivia and the socialist Michelle Bachelet in Chile (Niall Ferguson, "Who lost Latin America?", NATIONAL POST, Wednesday, February 15, 2006).
War on drugs a losing battle, so prosecutor quits
SUDBURY (CP) - After more than three years of prosecuting drug offences. Sudbury's federal prosecutor has stepped down in frustration.
"No matter what the police, or I, or the courts have done, we couldn't stem the ever increasing flow of drugs," Robert Topp said. "People are going to jail, people have been placed on probation, and people have been fined. It doesn't seem to have caused a slight reduction."
Sudbury's illicit drug trade involves everything from marijuana to heroin to morphine. Federal prosecutor "is a very depressing job, because it is never over," he said (TORONTO SUN, Tuesday, February 14, 2006).
THE IRAQ WAR: ON DRUGS
Crystal-meth-fed insurgents target US forces.
The legend of drug-crazed Muslim terrorists dates back to the 11th century.
By David Bienenstock
Currently entering its fourth year of violent opposition to the Bush administration's fading vision (mirage?) of a unified, democratic, secular nation rising from the ashes of our Shock and Awe-inspiring invasion, the Iraqi insurgency makes lethal use of a wide and ever-increasing range of weapons in pursuit of jihad (holy war) against US-led coalition forces and other supporters of the new, fledgling Iraqi government, employing everything from roadside bombs and shoulder-fired missiles to fundamentalist religious indoctrination and anti-American propaganda. The insurgency can also lay claim to a seemingly endless supply of angry young men desperate enough to sacrifice their own lives as martyrs to the cause of ending the occupation and creating a new theocracy based on strict Islamic law - a human supply line of modern-day cannon fodder comprised of not only native-born Iraqis, but also would-be "freedom fighters" recruited from across the Islamic world, including Saudi Arabia, Syria and Kuwait.
Now add another dangerous weapon to the list of enemy combatants in Iraq: d-N-methylamphetamine, better known stateside as crystal meth. According to the British Mirror newspaper and other reputable sources, leaders of the insurgency have turned to the powerful stimulant as a "courage pill" to psyche up their followers prior to suicide bombings and other attacks. Known locally as "pinkies" in Basra - a large city in southern Iraq particularly hard-hit by the insurgency - the pills reportedly have earned a reputation for making the often young and always zealous Iraqi rebels "fearless" in the face of the US forces' superior equipment and firepower. Members of radical cleric Muqtadr al-Sadr's infamous Mahdi Army, which briefly controlled the holy city of Najaf, as well as a big chunk of Baghdad, and remains deeply influential among the nation's disaffected youth, reportedly were willing to stand in the open during their brazen attacks on US armored vehicles while high on the drug, seemingly oblivious to steady return fire in their direction.
Of course, the Iraqi insurgents aren't the only ones making the most of modern pharmacology in their pursuit of a more perfect fighting force. In 2003, lawyers for a US Air Force pilot who released a bomb over Afghanistan - accidentally killing four Canadian soldiers involved in training exercises on the ground - claimed that the incident resulted from the pilot's impaired judgment after being pressured into taking amphetamines prior to the mission. In response, the Air Force acknowledged supplying dexamphetamine as a "fatigue-mamagement tool" - relying on the prescription drug informally known as "go pills" to keep pilots alert during long combat flights - but claimed all such pill-popping is strictly voluntary.
"There have been decades of study on their efficacy and practicality," Air Force spokeswoman Lt. Jennifer Ferrau reassured reporters regarding the pep pills. "The surgeon general worked very closely with commanders on this."
Still, while undoubtedly safer and cleaner than whatever supply of crystal meth the insurgents have managed to cook up for themselves, the Physician's Drug Handbook notes a few side effects for dexamphetamine that are not exactly ideal traits for fighter pilots in the air: "Symptoms of overdose include restlessness, tremor, hyperreflexia [overactive or over-responsive reflexes], confusion, aggressiveness, hallucinations and panic." Such temporary side effects and any potential long-term health consequences naturally don't hold much concern for the average suicide bomber - sent into battle simply to wreak havoc and spread destruction, carrying a head full of visions of exaltation in the afterlife - including, of course, the now-famous 72 virgins in heaven promised to be waiting for every martyr who dies in the throes of jihad. With its quick boost of confidence, energy and focus, crystal meth can only add fuel to the fanatical fire that's been burning in Iraq since the early days following the American invasion. The drug represents an ideal war-zone elixir for all the same reasons it's become the scourge of the American heartland - namely, meth's cheap to manufacture, long-lasting, powerful, and can be easily synthesized from a variety of commonly found and perfectly legal antecedents without any need for cultivating or smuggling. An experienced meth chef can quickly transform a hotel room or any similarly equipped domestic setting into a clandestine production laboratory capable of cranking out enough bathtub speed to supply a battalion of Iraqi insurgents without breaking a sweat.
Meanwhile, the legend of drug-crazed Muslim terrorists run amok dates back all the way to the famed hashashains of the 11th century, the secret, mystical Islamic sect controlled by Al-Hasan ibin al-Sabbah - a powerful warlord who commanded an elite band of devout Shiite warriors dedicated to overthrowing the existing order of the day through a series of daring political assassinations, usually by dagger in daylight. The hashashains became so notoriously proficient at executing this plan of attack that they eventually gave rise to a new word - assassin.
As the story goes, al-Sabbah would recruit likely candidates for this fighting forces and then feed them enough hashish to either lose consciousness or enter a waking dream. While still under this spell, the uninitiated would be transported to a secret garden hidden inside the walls of a castle, where actors playing the role of ghosts would rouse them with graphic descriptions of the eternal delights awaiting those who died in the service of Allah and al-Sabbah.
Next, a number of beautiful women would appear in the lush garden - willing partners called houris - and offer themselves up to the hashashain-in-training for orgiastic lovemaking sessions that would last for hours, all the while whispering lurid tales of the exponentially more overwhelming delights awaiting these young men in paradise, should they die as martyrs on the field of battle.
By the mext morning, another fearless and loyal hashashain warrior would be born - not only willing, but in fact eager to fight and die in the name of Allah after having been shown the open doors to paradise. At least that's how the story goes, first attributed to Marco Polo, and coincidentally a favorite little history lesson of Harry J. Anslinger - the man most responsible for the American prohibition of marijuana in 1937 and in many ways the grandaddy of the War on Drugs that continues on to the present day, with neither victory nor an exit strategy in sight.
The first commissioner of the Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics and a long-serving precursor to our modern-day Drug Czar, Anslinger loved telling and retelling the story of the hashashains because it fit so perfectly with the notorious scare tactics he used to discredit and demonize cannabis - a relentless campaign of blatantly racist misinformation that also regularly featured ax-wielding Mexicans crazed on marihuana and lust-crazed black men driven to violent rape by a single joint. Unfortunately, the strategic thinking of the generals commanding the Drug War hasn't improved much in the nearly seven decades since Anslinger managed to get the Marijuana Tax Act passed, effectively banning the herb in these United States.
Take, for example, our recent efforts to attack the alleged crystal-meth epidemic in America - a war against a manmade drug that would barely exist if it weren't for our war on other drugs, most obviously cocaine and marijuana.
"The scourge of methamphetamine demands unconventional thinking and innovative solutions," Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez noted last summer in announcing the administration's new anti-meth proposals - including plans to limit sales of cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, the active ingredient in illicit crystal. Sounds good, until critics on both sides of the debate examined the details and quickly concluded that mild measures would have almost zero effect in slowing the supply of meth on the street. Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican from Iowa and the chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, went so far as to accuse the White House of "listening more to Wal-Mart than to the economic and social problems" caused by meth, implying that the nation's largest retailer lobbied successfully against tougher restrictions to prevent lost sales.
And so, as America's drug warriors search in vain for a way to stem the spiking meth trend at home - an outbreak entirely within our own borders and inside our own communities - you have to wonder how we can possibly expect to have any way of keeping the stuff out of the hands of Iraqis in the middle of a war zone? The short answer: We can't. Now isn't about time to declare victory and hightail it home? (HIGH TIMES, April 2006).
Trockistowska idea wojny permanentnej, tym razem niby o "demokracje", a nie jak dawniej o komunizm, zapewnia permanentna "wojne przeciwko terrorowi", potrzebna neokonserwatystom do tworzenia w USA panstwa nadzoru i podsluchu.
Obecnie tego rodzaju taktyke neokonserwatystow niektorzy w USA nazywaja 'republikanskim leninizmem". Wspomina o tym Justin Raimondo w artykule opublikowanym 27 stycznia 2006 w Antiwar.com (http://www.antiwar.com/) pod tytulem "Hamas, syn Izraela; Izraelczycy zrodzili i wychowali sobie swoja islamska "Nemezis" (Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, "Hamas - "dziecko Izraela"", GONIEC, 3-9 lutego 2006).
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