Edward S. Herman
In
kutaura kwake Nyamavhuvhu 1 pamberi peRepublican National Convention, Bush kunze kwenyika
mutemo chipangamazano Condoleezza Rice akatsanangurira vateereri kuti Bush
"inoziva kuti varume nevakadzi vanoshamisa vemauto eAmerica
haasi mapurisa epasi rose. Ivo havasi vepasirese 911." Pa
zvakasiyana, akataura kuti muhurumende yeBush varume nevakadzi vakanaka ava
havazongodzivirira mahombekombe edu nematenga kubva kune chero kutyisidzira, ivo "vanoenda
kuti tiwedzere rugare, budiriro nerusununguko kupfuura mahombekombe edu akaropafadzwa."
Uye iyo Republican chikuva inodaidzira kushingaira kutsvaga kwe "rogue
kubvisa" zano rekutora kunze kwemitemo iyo effete Clinton
manejimendi yakangotsvaga kuve ne ("Bush inoronga kuderedza
'hutsotsi' inoti," Financial Times, Aug. 2, 2000).
ichi
hongu anoita kusaruramisira kwakakura kuna Clinton, uyo akashandisa hurongwa hwakazara hwe
boycotts, zvirango, kushayiwa kwekurapa kwevanhu uye nzara, kubhomba,
kuongorora, kutsigirwa kwevanopikisa vekunze, uye kukurudzira kuIraq
mauto kuti apidigura mutungamiri ane utsinye Saddam Hussein. MuYugoslavia zvakare.
Clinton akashandisa bhomba rakakura, masanctions, kupindira mukutsigira
mapato anopokana, kutongwa kweTribunal kwaMilosevic, nekuisa mutengo
Musoro waMilosevic semukurudziro yekutumira villain mune imwe
multi-pronged rogue kubvisa oparesheni. Chinhu chimwe chete chisina kuitwa naClinton
kupinda nechisimba nemauto eUS kudzinga vatungamiriri vehurumende vane hutsinye.
It
hazvina kujeka zvachose kuti maRepublican ari kutonga achapfuura Clinton mukati
kutarisana nemakororo, asi vanofanira kuzvisiyanisa kubva kwaari, kunyanya
sezvo vachisungirwa kupembedza vavariro yavo yekuwedzera zvikuru iyo yatove
bhajeti huru yemauto. Vanofanirwa kutora chirongwa che "nyika" yakakosha
security" chiito icho Clinton anga asiri kutoita. Zvakaoma kune
MaRepublicans kuti kana ari Iraq akatevera nesimba rekuuraya rudzi
kushandura maitiro akaiswa pasi peBush One. Iyo anti-missile boondoggle ndeye
yakanangana nekutyisidzira kumwe kuchengetedzeka kwenyika kukuru, North Korea, ine vatungamiriri
rimwe zuva mune ramangwana riri kure ringave nesimba rekuita nyika
kuzviuraya nekutumira chombo kuyambuka gungwa. VeRepublicans vane chido
kusundidzira kuti boondoggle, pasina mubvunzo achitarisira kuti kunobvira kuwirirana pakati
Maodzanyemba neSouth Korea hazvizovamanikidza kutsvaga boondoggle rationale
kumwewo. Asi boondoggle iyi haizofambisira mberi chikonzero chekubvisa nhubu
hutungamiriri hwenyika.
maererano
kuna Condoleeza Rice, kudiwa kwedziviriro kubva kune zvinokandwa "pa
zuva rekutanga rinobvira" rinobva mukuti kuedza kwakashata kuwana
zvombo zvenguva refu zvakanangidzirwa pa "blackmail." The rogues
haikwanise kuda zvombo zve "kuzvidzivirira" senyika inoda runyararo iyi
zviri pachena kuti inotsvaga simba guru remauto uye anti-missile defense system
nemhaka bedzi yeโbasa redu rinokosha rokuchengeta rugareโ!
VaRoma panguva yakakwirira yesimba ravo rehumambo vangave vakanyanya kupenga
uye unozviti vakarurama?
Ms.
Mupunga unoreva kuti mutemo waClinton waingove wekupa "mapurisa" epasi rose
simba" uye "911," pasina chikonzero chakakura. Asi Clinton's
mutemo wokune dzimwe nyika zvechokwadi wakagadzirirwa basa rekambani, uye akave akadaro
kuita basa rake rekupidigura tsvina muchikamu nekuti iye, semaRepublicans, ari
yakazvipira kuUS "chido chenyika" mukugadzira hurongwa hwepasi rose
ane mutsa kuU.S. transnational corporations. Asi Clinton anonzwawo kudiwa
kuzembera kumashure kuratidza kuti iye nemaDemocrats havasi
"yakapfava" uye ichave yakagadzirira semaRepublicans kurova a
Grenada, Nicaragua, Iraq, nezvimwewo, uye kuisa iyo yenyika (yekambani) kufarira
chekutanga. MaRepublican havafanirwe kuratidza kuda kwavo kuda nyika kubhomba
uye kuzvipira kwavo kune chibereko chekambani vanoshandira vasingatendeuki; zvinova
nei dzimwe nguva vachifanira kubvisa nyika kubva kuhondo umo
MaDemocrat akabatikana pasi (Korea, Vietnam). Kune rumwe rutivi, maRepublicans
vangangove padyo nenzvimbo dzemauto-maindasitiri kupfuura maDemocrats
(Musoro waLockheed waisakwanisa kumisa kunakidzwa kwake netarisiro yeBush
utungamiriri; Lynne Cheney ari pabhodhi rake revatungamiriri pamadhora zviuru zana nemakumi maviri neshanu pagore); ivo
kuve nehukama hwepedyo kuindasitiri yemafuta (Bush naCheney vese vanobuda
yebhizimisi); uye maRepublicans vanorera mubatanidzwa wakakura wepfungwa
vanopenga kupfuura maDemocrats (Mupunga iboka reBush "rine mwero," zvichinzi
vachidzivirira Richard Perle naPaul Wolfowitz nevamwe varwi vakaomarara). Izvi
inoita kuti makwikwi pamusoro pekuti ndiani anonyanya kukurumidza kunyanyisa kudzvinyirira ive pedyo.
asi
zvinocherechedzwa sei, nekupera kweSoviet Union uye ine mwero wayo
"kusvibiswa" kweUnited States, kupandukira kwevavengi vekunze kune
wedzera kuvhurika uye kushama. Clinton akazvitakura kure, uye maRepublicans
vari kutaura kuti kupidigura kuchava mutemo wepamutemo uye zvichave zvakadaro
kuendeswa mberi. Pachiri neiyo diki genuflection kune "tsika"
mukutsanangura zvibodzwa se "marogue," zvinotevera kune
zita rekuti "gandanga" remakore akati wandei kumashure. Asi chokwadi
kudoma nyika se "rogue" wozoenderera mberi nekutora zvakarongeka
chiito chekubvisa vatongi uye kuisa matsva chave kuratidzwa sezvakazara
zvine musoro. Hapana mibvunzo yakamutswa munhau dzeUS nezve chirevo ichi
yekodzero iyi uye hukama hwayo neunofungidzirwa utongi hwemutemo munyika dzepasi rose
nyaya. Iyo yakasununguka Boston Globe inokorokotedza maRepublicans
puratifomu yavo inodaidzira kubviswa kwakashata ("Kuve Pachena NezveSaddam,"
Aug. 8). Kune vezvenhau vakavimbika, mutemo unoshanda ndizvo zvinotaurwa nevatungamiriri vavo uye
kuita.
The
izwi rekuti "kupidigura" harina kushandiswa kutsanangura Republican
zvirongwa zviri kunze kwenyika. Ndiyo nguva yechinyakare yemakore eCold War,
kufanana nehugandanga, hwakasarudza kuedza kweSoviet kubvisa hurumende neKGB
disinformation uye propaganda, kusagadzikana kwehupfumi neboycotts uye
zvirango, kutenga vezvematongerwo enyika, uye kukurudzira mhirizhonga nekuponda.
Aya ndiwo chaiwo matekiniki aishandiswa neCIA nemamwe maoko eU.S.
chengetedzo yenyika muLatin America nepasirese, sekutsanangurwa kwazvinoita
aimbova CIA anoshanda Philip Agee mubhuku rake Inside the Company, asi semu
vezvenhau vakarerutsa kodzero yedu yechisikigo yekubiridzira, zvisina tsarukano
shoko rakaita sokupandukira harina kumboshandiswa kwatiri. Uye inoramba isisashandiswi
nhasi. (Kuongorora kweiyi kodzero yechisikigo, uye mafomu ekupandukira anoshandiswa
neU.S. muLatin America, ona Real Terror Network yangu, 132-5.)
Another
chikonzero nei tisingakanganisi ndechekuti kuedza kwedu kwese kubata nemakororo ndiko
zvichibva pakuitira hanya kwedu "chengeteko yenyika," imwe yeakanyanya
elastic mitsara mumutauro weChirungu. Kana hurumende inotora simba mu
nyika iri kure inotyisidzira kuteresa kambani yeU.S. zvakanyanya, iyi inyika
kuchengeteka dambudziko. Nokuisa tyisidziro yakadaro zvokuti hurumende yakaratidza zvayo
ruvengo uye kusanzwisisa-yakaita chimwe chinhu chatinopikisa, uye icho
atadza kuziva chokwadi cheneoliberal chekuti mutero wakakwirira zvakadaro hauna kunaka,
etc. Chokwadi, pane iyi pfungwa yekuchengeteka kwenyika, chero munhu asingaiti
kubhidha kwedu chaiko kunokanganisa kuchengetedzwa kwenyika uye zvinogona kudaro
anonzi tsotsi. Zviri pachena kuti ichi chishandiso chakakwana chenjere chegwaro
yehutsinye imperialism.
Another
Chinhu chakakosha chekuchengetedzwa kwenyika ndechekuti, se "mutemo waHoover" - kureva,
uwandu hwemaKomonisiti hudiki hunowedzera kutyisidzira kwavo kwekupandukira-isu
vane "National Security kutyisidzira mutemo," iyo inotaura kuti zvakanyanya
ine simba munyika ino uye hukuru hwayo hwemauto pamusoro pevamwe
zvakanyanya zvinotyisa uye zvisingashiviriri ndezvipi zvinonetsa kune zvishuwo zvayo kunze kwenyika. Mutemo uyu
chiratidzo chechirwere chinozivikanwa se "pitiful giant syndrome,"
izvo zvinoita kuti mauto edu ezvematongerwo enyika aite shungu nekugeda-geda mazino edu
kunofungidzirwa kusabatsira mukurwisa tyisidziro dzose idzi dzokunze.
dzimwe nguva
mune zvese izvi mucherechedzo wekusatendeseka uye zvishoma zvakaverengerwa
kurongeka kwechido chekuchengetedza hukuru uye kupindira zvakasununguka
pakuda kwedu. Asi inogona kunge iri chokwadi chemukati kune vakawanda. The
mauto-maindustrial complex zvechokwadi anoda zvikonzero zvemauto ari kukura
bhajeti, uye kutyisidzira inflation kune nhoroondo refu mune seriyo Cold War
"magapu" akange asipo. Chikwata cheBush Two chine basa razvo
nokuda kwavo mukupembedza kushandiswa kwakawedzera kwechiuto mukutyisidzira kwepashure peSoviet
era, asi vezvenhau vanogona kugara vachivimbwa navo kuti vabatsire. Uye Bush Two
Sevhisi inotarisirwa isingaperi kuGreed Inc. inogona kuita kuti zvive zvakakosha kune yedu
"varume nevakadzi vakanaka" mumasevhisi ezvombo kuti vashande pane mamwe
avo varume nevakadzi vasina kunaka, vakawirwa ne "chishamiso che
musika," inoda kugadzikana kumba, pamwe nekune dzimwe nyika.