The war on Iran: Reflections by Fidel Castro

US WAR ON IRAN: "THE WORST MISTAKE IN AMERICAN HISTORY": The Road to Disaster

By Fidel Castro Ruz

Fidel Castro ‘s latest reflections hints to the danger of a looming US Iran war. Fidel Castro warns that a war with Iran war would be the worst mistake in US history.

This Reflection could be written today, tomorrow or any other day without the risk of being mistaken. Our species faces new problems. When 20 years ago I stated at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro that a species was in danger of extinction, I had fewer reasons than today for warning about a danger that I was seeing perhaps 100 years away. At that time, a handful of leaders of the most powerful countries were in charge of the world. They applauded my words as a matter of mere courtesy and placidly continued to dig for the burial of our species.

It seemed that on our planet, common sense and order reigned. For a while, economic development, backed by technology and science appeared to be the Alpha and Omega of human society.

Today, everything is much clearer. Profound truths have been surfacing. Almost 200 States, supposedly independent, constitute the political organization which in theory has the job of governing the destiny of the world.

25, 000 nuclear weapons needed to defend the changing order ?
Approximately 25,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of allied or enemy forces ready to defend the changing World order, by interest or necessity, virtually reduce to zero the rights of billions of people.

I shall not commit the naïveté of assigning the blame to Russia or China for the development of that kind of weaponry, after the monstrous massacre at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ordered by Truman in August 1945 after Roosevelt’s death [April 1945].

Nor shall I fall prey to the error of denying the Holocaust that signified the deaths of millions of children and adults, men or women, mainly Jews, gypsies, Russians or other nationalities, who were victims of Nazism. For that reason the odious policy of those who deny the Palestinian people their right to exist is repugnant.

Does anyone by chance think that the United States will be capable of acting with the independence that will keep it from the inevitable disaster awaiting it?

In a few weeks, the 40 million dollars President Obama promised to collect for his electoral campaign will only serve to show that the currency of his country has lost its value, and that the US, with its unusual growing public debt drawing close to 20 quadrillion, is living on the money it prints up and not on the money it produces. The rest of the world pays for what they waste.

Nor does anyone believe that the Democratic candidate would be any better or worse than his Republican foes: whether they are called Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum. Light years separate these three characters from Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King.

It is really unheard-of to observe such a technologically powerful nation and a government so bereft of both ideas and moral values.

Iran has no nuclear weapons. It is being accused of producing enriched uranium that serves as fuel energy or components for medical uses. Whatever one can say, its possession or production is not equivalent to the production of nuclear weapons. Dozens of countries use enriched uranium as an energy source, but this cannot be used in the manufacture of a nuclear weapon without a prior complicated purification process.

However, Israel, with the aid and cooperation of the United States, has manufactured nuclear weaponry without informing or accounting for their actions to anybody. Not admitting their possession of these weapons, they have hundreds of them. To prevent the development of research in neighbouring Arab countries, they attacked and destroyed reactors in Iraq and Syria. They have also declared their objective of attacking and destroying the production centres for nuclear fuel in Iran.

International politics have been revolving around that crucial topic in that complex and dangerous part of the world, where most of the fuel that moves the world economy is produced and supplied.

The selective elimination of Iran’s most eminent scientists by Israel and their NATO allies has become a practice that motivates hatred and feelings of revenge.

The Israeli government has openly stated its objective to attack the plant manufacturing Iran’s enriched uranium, and the government of the United States has invested billions of dollars to manufacture a bomb for that purpose.

On March 16, 2012, Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham published an article revealing that “A top US Air Force General has described the largest conventional bomb – the re-invented bunkers of 13.6 tons – as ‘fantastic’ for a military attack on Iran.

“Such an eloquent comment on the massive killer-artefact took place in the same week that President Barack Obama appeared to warn against ‘easy words’ on the Persian Gulf War.”

“…Herbert Carlisle, deputy chief of staff for US Air Force operations […] added that probably the bomb would be used in any attack on Iran ordered by Washington.

“The MOP, also referred to as ‘The Mother of All Bombs’, is designed to drill through 60 metres of concrete before it detonates its massive bomb. It is believed to be the largest conventional weapon, non-nuclear, in the US arsenal.”

“The Pentagon is planning a process of wide destruction of Iran’s infrastructure and massive civilian victims through the combined use of tactical nuclear bombs and monstrous conventional bombs with mushroom-shaped clouds, including the MOABs and the larger GBU-57A/B or Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) that exceeds the MOAB in destructive capacity.

“The MOP is described as ‘a powerful new bomb that aims straight at subterranean Iranian and North Korean nuclear facilities. The giant bomb –longer than 11 persons shoulder to shoulder, or more than 6 metres from end to end’.”

I ask the reader to excuse me for this complicated military jargon.

As one can see, such calculations arise from the hypothesis that the Iranian combatants, numbering millions of men and women well-known for their religious zeal and their fighting traditions, surrender without firing a shot.

In recent days, the Iranians have seen how US soldiers occupying Afghanistan, in just three weeks, urinated on the corpses of killed Afghans, burned copies of the Koran and murdered more than 15 defenceless citizens.

Let us imagine US forces launching monstrous bombs on industrial institutions, capable of penetrating through 60 metres of concrete. Never has such an undertaking ever been conceived [and carried out].

Not one word more is needed to understand the gravity of such a policy. In that way, our species will be inexorably led towards disaster.

If we do not learn how to understand, we shall never learn how to survive.

As for me, I harbour not the slightest doubt that the United States is about to commit and lead the world towards the greatest mistake in its history."

Fidel Castro Ruz

March 21, 2012

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29923

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Fidel Castro Ruz
Reflexiones de Fidel
Global Research, March 23, 2012

Patrick Bruel L’appart

I miss it very much / Il me manque beaucoup!

Sur le mur, quelques photos
Sans punaises, elles tomberont bientôt.
Il ne reste vraiment pas grand chose
Qu'une adresse, et puis ces quelques pauses.

Dans cet appart', on s'est aimé.
Maint'nant qu'il faut qu' je parte,
J' commence à m'en rappeler.

C'est l'amour qui vivait au 33,
Vue sur cour et 200 sacs par mois.
C'est l'amour qui vivait au 33,
C'est l'amour, mais nous on l' savait pas.

Dans cet appart' on s'est aimé.
Maint'nant qu'il faut qu' je parte,
J' commence à m'en rappeler.

Et les croq's qu'on s' faisait dans l'alu,
Et les choc'soup, mon Dieu c' qu'on en a bu.
Il ne reste vraiment pas grand chose
Qu'une adresse, et puis ces quelques pauses.

Dans cet appart' on s'est aimé.
Maint'nant qu'il faut qu' je parte,
J' commence à m'en rappeler.

Dans cet appart', j'ai tel'ment voyagé
Que toutes les cartes du monde n'y pourront rien changer.
J'ai passé ma jeunesse avec une fille dans un deux pièces.

Si aujourd'hui c'est fini,
Y' a des appart' ailleurs qu'ici.
Si aujourd'hui c'est fini,
Y' a des appart' ailleurs qu'ici.

Fini...

Maint'nant qu'il faut qu' je parte,

Valéry et La tentation de l’esprit par Marcel Raymond (1946).

Sur les vers anciens
Valéry, à dix-neuf ans, est déjà lui-même, dans cette poésie qui se voudrait sans aveu, degagé du trop humain de la vie sentimentale, architecture et musique.
Quant à Valéry, il n’attend pas de la poésie qu’elle lui révèle “un autre monde”, ou “un arrière-monde”, qui existerait avant elle et don’t elle serait une imitation, ou une figure allusive. Il lui suffit que la poésie étant parfaitement elle-même, transcende les choses humaines; et il pense qu’un esprit lucide, maître absolu de ses moyens, peut suffire à l’édifier.
L’eau riande et la danse infidèle des vagues…
”infidèle” a le sens latin d’infidus, ”changeant”. Pareillement, c’est le latin evadere qui justifie la chevelure “evasive” aux doigts de la fileuse.
Mais ces latinismes et ses diverses figures ne repondent pas à un simple préjugé d’humaniste.
Ce qui importe, c’est d’essayer de ressusciter dans le langage l’impression, avec sa fraîcheur et sa teneur ontologique. A cela prétendait Rimbaud, qui voulait que le poète entreprît ”un long, immense et réglé dérèglement de tous les sens”.
Si nos sense sont réglés par l’habitude que nous avons des choses, dans un monde qui s’est peu à peu stéréotypé sous nos regards, chaque sensation étant limitée par l’usage que nous faisons des objets, par l’idée que nous en prenons, l’essentiel est de rompre ces liaisons, ces scellés apposés au langage, et de chercher un contact profond et réel avec les choses, c’est-à-dire avec nous-mêmes, (Bergson a développé ces pensées, qui se trouvent, dès 1894, dans l’Introduction à la method de Léonardo de Vinci).
Ainsi se forment des comprimés linguistiques, des metaphors qui detonent, semblables à des cartouches d’artificier (dira un jour Lucien Fabre), parce qu’elles font court-circuit entre des mots que l’usage sépare, et qu’elles favorisent, par le truchement du langage, de nouvelles et violentes syntheses des qualities et des elements de l’univers.
Eté, roche d’air pur…
Le réflexe du lecteur, prisonier de ses habitudes, est de fuir aussitôt cette image “impossible”, pour se représenter quelque roch ruisselante, au bord de la mer. Ce faisant, il détruit l’image, il se refuse à son intensité plénière, au lieu de l’avaler telle quelle, pour sentir par tout son être la presence irréfutable de l’air dense et chaud, compact, le grain pur de ses molecules.
La poésie, c’est d’abord cette alchimie verbale, ces abus et transmutations. Mais ceux-ci sont commandés ici par une conscience aiguë des mouvements du corps dans le monde, du corps poreux et penetrable, assimilable au monde. Là est l’intérét des “trouvailles”, longtemps cherchées sans doute, qui donnent leur personalité aux vers anciens.
Cependant, les idées de la vie auxquelles Valéry donne ses préférences (peu importe qu’il assure devoir ses themes à la deduction logique ou au hazard) sont celle du triomphe, de la gloire, qui sonne avec les fanfares du soleil, et celle de la tendresse, de l’abandon, murmurant à la nuit ou dans le crepuscule. Gide rapport que son ami, vers 1890, répétait avec insistence un mot qu’il attribuait à Cervantes : comment cacher un home? Et c’est Valéry lui-même qui se trahit par ces deux mouvements antagonists : l’aspiration à la toute-puissance, ou à un état d’hypersensibilité voluptueuse.
Mais ces deux idées de la vie se presentment souvent l’une et l’autre sous les apparences de l‘eau, tantôt de l’eau jaillissante, violente, l’eau de la mer, tantôt de l’eau dormante, doux-coulante, l’étang, la fontaine. Hantée par une humeur fluide, meme si elle n’est pas faite d’images liquids, cette poésie aime à s’étaler en nappe tranquilles, ou à se rassembler en vagues, en masse verbales, percutantes.