Triumphalism Over
Fall of the Berlin Wall 'Just a Diversion'
By
putting on a 'show' at the site of the former Berlin Wall, are Western
politicians merely diverting attention from their own failures? For Iran's
state-controlled Kahan newspaper, Kian Mokhtari shows his contempt - undoubtedly
with the regime's approval - of how the West is run.
In Berlin on Sunday, Secretary of State Clinton accepts an Atlantic Council Freedom Award on behalf of the American people from her predecessor, Henry Kissinger. Clinton said that the 'ideals that drove Berliners to tear down that wall are no less relevant today.' Apparently, the Iranian regime begs to differ.
The Associated Press
has reported that U.S. Secretary of State Clinton plans to discuss Iran with
world leaders during her visit to Europe and Asia. Although Clinton’s trip is to
take part in celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the
Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, the Iran question is bound to loom - so we are
told.
We have also been told,
according to a proposal by the P5+1 [all permanent members of the U.N. Security
Council plus Germany], Iran must send 1.2 tons of low-enriched uranium in a
single batch for reprocessing in Russia by the end of the year. Iran, however,
hasn't agreed to any official deadlines on this issue. And here comes the
hilarious part: It is said that France would convert the uranium into fuel rods
to be returned to Tehran for use in a test reactor used for producing [radioactive]
isotopes for medicine.
But setting aside the usual
fuss and sensitivity over Iran’s civilian nuclear program, what do the United
States and its allies have to brag about?
Financially humbled, militarily
defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan and with their bankers and leaders proven thieves
and crooks caught with their hands in the public purse, if there were any wise
Western politicians left, they would know that the time has come to keep it [the
back-slapping] down.
A
drizzly celebration for Western leaders: British Prime Minister Gordon
Brown,
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela
Merkel,
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, German President Horst
Koehler
and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton make their way through
Nevertheless, pointless and
monotonous rhetoric continues to fly out of the Western political scene's every
nook and cranny like a punctured balloon bleeding hot air. Western politicians know,
of course, that no amount of talking will replace the trillions of dollars they
have forced out of taxpayers to pay their crooked bankers; they simply have
no choice but to divert public attention from the facts on the ground.
Never mind that the average Western
taxpayer is being driven to abject poverty and hardship - along with the loss
of their homes - to pay for useless wars abroad.
To stop terrorism, the West must
stop its wholesale plundering of resources from developing countries or give local
people a fair share of the true value of what it is being forcefully extracted.
The West must also stop invading, occupying and killing civilians across the
globe. These issues are at the very heart of the militancy against the West.
So why aren't such issues being
addressed and arguments calling for more troops and helicopters being made more
of an issue out of?
One likely reason is that the
West's military industrial complex must keep fiscally in step with other businesses.
As Western children are sent to die for yet more lies, this is all about big
business. Since World War I, in which tens of millions were killed because two
branches of a European Royal family fell out with one another over money and
land, this has been a repetitive theme.
The Western charade is
sickening and despicable beyond belief.
