Index on Afghanistan: December 2006

Sarah Meyer, INDEX RESEARCH

The United States has had an unsuccessful love affair with 'Regime Change.’ Regime change for Cuba has been on the menu for over 40 years. One can be sure that present back-stage machinations for imminent regime change, following the death of Castro, are in rehearsal. Oil rich Venezuela has been added to the roll call. Will other blossoming socialist countries in Latin America be added to this "communist" regime-change list? Following 9/11, the United States intentionally started upsetting the Middle East by initiating a war in Afghanistan. The 'War of Terror' is about protecting oil and Israel. Bush and Co. found their 'heroic' war feet. Bush passionately vowed to 'get’ Osama bin Laden. But getting Saddam (Iraq) was more important for the neo-conservatives. 'Democracy and Freedom’ remain the main media message to a mostly uninformed American public...

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