It would be difficult for anybody to pick
a year since the end of the second world war, when the UK, that
peaceful nation, has not been somewhere fighting on foreign soil? We
have the headline affairs, like Suez, Korea, Falklands, the Balkans,
Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Then we have had UK military overseas,
“peace keeping”, “training” and “supporting”. Now that
we are preparing to pull out of Afghanistan, it would appear that our
millionaire war lord, Cameron, has a vision of a long military
adventure in North Africa, his corporate friends demand it, “Thar's
gold/oil in them thar lands”. His statement, “This is a global
threat and it will require a global response. It will require a
response that is about years, even decades, rather than months…,”
I'm sure would be most heart warming to those blood merchants in the
arms industry, Once again the camouflage is the war-on-terror,
protecting us at home, making our streets safer. The message they put
out is that if we go into foreign lands and bomb the shit out of the
locals and steal their natural resources, they will love us and leave
us in peace. Though they always omit to mention the part about the
rich resources. No, there is never any mention that the countries
that we bomb into democracy happen to be sitting on resources that the
corporate West need and from which our fat cat corporate over lords
can make billions. At one time we had the British Empire that
butchered its way across the world looting and pillaging, fattening
its privileged parasites, now it is the Western Corporate Empire,
backed up by a cabal of state funded military. The Empire is dead,
long live the Empire.
