The SEE Conundrum By Don Nash

The SEE Conundrum

By Don Nash

Al-Jazeerah, August 23, 2006

The SEE Conundrum is a world class stumper. A mystery, a problem, a pox upon us all, and a vital integer in that ever important equation known as “man’s inhumanity to fellow man.” Our world’s leaders embrace the SEE Conundrum and dance with it. They take it to their beds like an adulterous lover and our world’s leaders flaunt the conundrum as some kind of end-all solution for political insanity.
The world’s political brain trust will slap a fancy label on it or dress it up pretty and call it their ‘prom date’. Even then, the conundrum would still just be a pig in a party dress. Ever take a pig to a party? Fancy dress or otherwise, that act would turn heads and not necessarily approving heads. America’s “pork” lobby would of course approve, however America’s “pork” lobby isn’t likely to receive an invitation to the next AIPAC get together. I kid the “kosher.” I’m probably on pigskin thin ice here and I’ll get a nasty visit from the Israeli Defense Force. I could suppose that when one is knee deep in genocidal blitzkrieg, humor isn’t high on a list of things to do.

The SEE Conundrum is of course, the “sudden end to existence.” Besides being a conundrum, it is wildly incapacitating and shockingly terminal. There are a number of parochially vogue terms that are bantered back and forth by mainstream media and overall, their niceties are simply for effect. How about “preemptive war?” How about “incursion?” How about “war on terror?” Anyway one might care to construe current political madness and murder, it is beyond disingenuous to embrace wanton slaughter for anything other than what it is.

It is a standing mystery as to why George ‘kid slaughter’ Bush lied America into a preemptive war on Iraq. Remember, no wmd’s were found in Iraq and that was Bush’s sole excuse for his “shock and awe” genocide on Iraq in the first place. 9/11/01 is not now nor was it at any time a rationale for Bush’s insane genocide. It is a given that the Bush gang of forty plus war criminals have changed their reasoning almost daily, since the beginning of the Iraq preemption. Matters not a whit. Our ‘kid slaughter’ put the murderous hand of oppression on Iraq and Iraq has suffered ever since. So, doesn’t that qualify as a “conundrum?” Doesn’t that qualify as a mystery?

Shouldn’t the massive “sudden end to existence” of probably 500,000 innocent Iraqi men, women, and children qualify as genocide? A war crime? An outrage that humanity as a justice starved collective, should demand an accounting for? Tony ‘lap doggy’ Blair is tied into the “conundrum” equation as is Australia’s John Howard and ‘John Does’ one through forty eight. That’s a humorless conundrum commonly referred to as “the coalition of the willing to slaughter.”
Some might conjecture that the U.S. Congress has a part to play in a conundrum of mysterious carnage. However the U.S. Congress is mired in blind corruption and an abject desire to not get themselves caught “cold” before election time and is therefore wholly irrelevant. George ‘kid slaughter’ Bush considers Congress to be “the other white meat.”

Then we have the Israelis and their inhumane slaughter of Palestinians and the Lebanese. Israeli rationale about Hizbullah or Hamas or whomever being the bad guys here is comprehensive bulls*#t! Israel slaughters Lebanese men, women, and children and because it’s Israel working the genocide it’s perfectly “acceptable.” Well, hardly. Israeli handiwork or murder if you will, certainly qualifies as a “conundrum” as well as “crimes against humanity.” Not even Hud Olmert can dress that “war-pig” into acceptability. The real and actual “conundrum” remains. Why aren’t these war criminals sent directly to the International Criminal Court at the Hague for some long overdue justice? Why are politician/murderers allowed to walk the global stage with impunity? Humanity should demand a “robust” application of global justice and all those that have had their existence suddenly ended by political madmen, are deserving of nothing less.

Earth, a planet hungry for peace

Apartheid Wall


The Israeli Land-Grab Apartheid Wall built inside the Palestinian territories, here separating Abu Dis from occupied East Jerusalem. (IPC, 7/4/04).

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03).

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