Chilling scenario
Here's a scenario guaranteed to send chills down your spine: Germany has decided the oil fields of Venezuela are too precious a world resource to allow the corrupt and evil government there to ruin, and the government is oppressing the people, and the economic instability of the regime there threatens to disturb the world oil market, which makes it a national security risk for Deutschland.
So it announces the German army is going to invade Venezuela next month and put things right, liberate the oppressed people of that small country, and install the German army general as "temporary" governor of the country to safeguard the natural resources and restore world order, as well as promote peace in the general South America-Central America region.
How would that idea play in the United States? About as well as President Bush's newly announced plan for Mideast peace is playing right now in the world: We invade Iraq, "free" the people by installing an American general as temporary ruler, and "protect" the Iraqi oil fields. Now that none of the other "arguments" our government is using seems to have hit the spot, Bush has decided his real goal in Iraq is to bring the two sides together in the Mideast.
Yes, war will really do that. And I want the German army in Venezuela.
DORRIE E. WHITLOCK Modesto
Posted on Modesto Bee: March 3, 2003 @ 04:50:08 AM PST